Papertrey Ink Feb 2017 blog hop challenge

It's time again for the Papertrey Ink monthly blog hop.

Once again Nicole picked such a gorgeous and inspiring photo.  I didn't have a lot of time to make a card and really wanted to preserve the elegance of the photo.  I definitely struggled with this.  I decided to try some foiling.  I got the supplies to do so for Christmas but haven't had a chance to try it.

I am not totally thrilled with the design of my card but woweee that foiling it wonderful!  It's very hard to photograph but in real life it's super shiny.   It's flat and looks soo much more professional looking than embossing.  As Jennifer McGuire has shown on her blog.  I used flitter glue and an ink blending sponge to apply glue to my sentiment stamp then stamped it using the MISTI.  I then applied the foil over the stamped image and ran it through my laminator using a piece of copy paper folded in half as my carrier sheet.     If I didn't get a good impression then I stamped again in the same spot which is really easy using the MISTI and then added the foil and ran it back through again.   I also did this for my flower centers.  I used a toner sheet to die cut PTI's nostalgic notions border (no longer available).  This worked even better than the stamping.   I used PTI's art with heart stamp set (no longer available)  for my flower decoration.  I stamped the leaves in PTI  saffron spice.  The flowers were stamped in Momento's sweet plum and PTI's raspberry fizz inks.  The sentiment is from PTI's painted petals stamp set (no longer available). 

Gotta run! Thanks for stopping by!  Please come back again!
Shelly

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