Feed Your Soul - TTCRD, foiled embossing

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For my project, I had food on my mind when I embossed and foiled a cutlery background stamp from Hero Arts, a cloche die from Spellbinders, and foody sentiments from Impression Obsession on a background paper from Hero Arts.

Putting It Together

Sometimes I have a simple idea rumbling around in my head, especially when my tummy is rumbling.

I started with embossing the Forks & Knives stamp from Hero Arts using clear embossing on the patterned paper that reminded me of a table cloth.

Using Todo foil, I ran the background through a hot laminator. This foil is designed for foiling machines so it stuck a bit just from the heat where there wasn't embossing to hold it. I liked the distressed look it gave the background so kept it. But now I know a limitation of this foil even though it does work somewhat with the laminator. (I got a pack of it supercheap as a doorbuster at the anniversary event at a local scrapbooking store.)

I did a dry fit with the cloche die and sentiment after trimming the foiled paper.

I used a linen-look, like a napkin, paper for the sentiment panel and a foiled paper for the die-cut. I used a Distressing tool on the edges of the background paper and sentiment panel to amp up the cloth look before adding them all to a top-fold white A2, 5 1/2" x 4 1/4", card base.

Inside, I added scrap from the background and used a metallic marker to fill in the sentiment.

Challenges

Creative Moments: Anything Goes/Masculine

Creative Craft Cottage: For the Men

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday: Anything Goes

Outlawz Monday Greetings: Anything Goes

Always Fun: Anything Goes