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Glimmer Hot Foil Birthday Cards

Today's cards are part of my stash-busting series.  This is where I look around my craft room and grab a bunch of supplies that I haven't yet had the chance to use.  The results yielded two glimmer hot foiled birthday cards.
I used the smooshing technique to apply Mustard Seed and Worn Lipstick Distress Oxide inks onto white card panels.  After the panels were dry, I used the Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil System along with the Scattered Flowers and Diamonetta Background Glimmer plates to add Aura Glimmer Hot foil to the card panels.   The card panels were mounted onto pink cardstock.  I used the same Aura foil to glimmer the Happy Birthday sentiment onto white cardstock.  


I cut the sentiment using a Momenta nesting border die.  I used a slightly larger border die to cut a sentiment border from the pink cardstock.  I cut pink and yellow flowers using the Sizzix Spring Things die set.  I ran the flowers and sentiment border through the Project Life Adventure embossing folder.  I also die-cut white cardstock using one of the backgrounds from the Sizzix Creative Backgrounds die set.


On the Diamonetta glimmered background, I adhered the white border to the right side of the card and used foam tape to adhere the layered sentiment so that it slightly overlapped the white die-cut border.  I layered up the embossed flowers and popped them up with foam tape on the right side of the sentiment.  I added some adhesive bling to the centers of the flowers.


For the shaker card, I wrapped the card panel using a piece of plastic packaging and adhered the packing to the back of the card panel using double-sided adhesive.  Before adhering the plastic to the top of the card, I shook some pink, white, and yellow glitter down the front of the card.  I used double-sided tape to adhere the layered sentiment and flower to the front of the card.


The thin shaker card is an ideal way to use up the glitter in your stash and is perfect for mailing since it has very little dimension.  I also love the dimension that the embossing folder gave to the flowers.  


Take a look around your craft room and see what you can create from those neglected supplies.  Stay tuned for more stash-busting projects.

Glimmer Hot Foil Birthday Cards
Supplies:
  • Accent Opaque White Cardstock 100lb
  • Recollections Cardstock - White
  • AC Cardstock - Fireberry and Lemon
  • Distress Oxide Inks - Mustard Seed and Worn Lipstick
  • Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil System
  • Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil - Aura
  • Spellbinders Glimmer Plates - Scattered Flowers Background and Diamonetta Background
  • Spellbinders Scalloped Rectangle Glimmer Kit of the Month - February 2021
  • Momenta Nested Large Border Cutting Templates
  • Sizzix Thinlits - Creative Backgrounds
  • Sizzix Thinlits - Spring Things
  • Project Life Adventure Embossing Folders
  • Recollections Bling Stickers
  • Recollections Memory Explosion Box Assorted Glitter Set
  • Foam Tape
  • Double-Sided Tape
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