Studio Monday with Nina-Marie: 2 Ways to Foil with Gina K. Designs
Hello crafters, it’s Nina-Marie with you today! Welcome back to my latest Studio Monday tutorial, featuring some shiny foils, Fall themed stamps and Foil Mates from Gina K. Designs! With all the leaves changing colors, the crisp fresh air and sunflowers popping up in everyone’s outdoor decor, there is no denying that all the Autumn vibes are abound.
The pretty florals are from Gina’s Graphic Sunflowers stamp set; I used the Wild Dandelion, Gold and Copper Deco Foils with the Grapic Sunflowers Foil Mates sheets to create the shiny foil areas. The flowers were stamped with Duckling, Sunshine, Green Leaf and Evergreen inks. There is a bit of accent stamping behind the florals, which I created with the Simon Says Stamp, Look for the Miracles set.
The greeting for this card was from the Gina K. Designs Thankful and Blessed stamp set and was embossed in white. I created texture on the card base by using the Neat & Tangled Star Cover Plate die. Finally, I embellised the sunflowers with gold jewels; I love how the gems accent these florals so perfectly!
The second card I created features the lovely, Thankful Leaves collection! I wanted to do something a bit different to color the leaves, as I used a stamping for the sunflower card. I could have used Copics or pencils, but decided to see how the Thankful Leaves Foil Mates paper would take watercolors! Because these Foil Mates are heavy-weight cardstock and not watercolor paper, you cannot overwork the paper or it will pill But for something organic, such as dropping in colors for leaves, it worked perfect!
I layered the foiled leaves onto a card base that has a stack of the Birch Press Designs Wave dies adhered on top. I love how the swirls of the waves make it appear as if the leaves are falling! The sentiment I embossed with Antique Gold embossing powder and I embellished areas around the leaves with gold confetti.
For the foiling, I used the following Deco Foils: Amethyst Watercolor, Spring Green, Gold, Sweet Mango and Copper.
Each of these cards are great examples for how you can use the Gina K. Designs and ThermoWeb Graphic Sunflowers and Thankful Leaves Stamp ‘n Foil products! Be sure to watch the video below to see how I created these foiled beauties!
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I really like how those leaves turned out! :) They are super pretty.
Really distinctive cards. x
Wonderful flower bordering & sparkly leaves.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Beautiful card. Those leaves are gorgeous. I really love the foiling.
These are gorgeous, Nina. I love the added bling with the foil.
Both of these cards are just beautiful! The foiling adds the perfect accent. You have given me an idea for how to use a BG stamp that I have in my collection.
The sentiment/verse on the second card is a favorite and brings tears to my eyes. Adding the set to my wish list now!
WHOA! Those leaves are AMazing! I wish they were on the trees outside my house ;)
What fabulous, layered backgrounds!
The foil leaves are gorgeous. A great way to catch fall mood.
Those leaves are fantastic! Love the foil accents too.
I love your Autumn leaf card. Amazing background. Thanks for the video.
What beautiful cards! Love the autumn leaf card!
Absolutely beautiful cards.
Love the beautiful colors of the leaves. Thanks for inspiring
Nina, your falling leaves card is a winner in my book. Love the colours of the leaves! Beautiful!
Beautiful Fall card designs.
Beautiful cards!! I love your watercolored leaves!!!
Loving the look of these. I cannot wait to watch this video when I leave work lol
The leaves turned out amazing! The foil and the watercolour work well together.
The colours of the leaves are beautiful! Love those autumncolours :)
Gorgeous leaves! Love the background on those cards.
I ordered the September kit and want to try foiling now!
AWESOME cards, I especially love the watercolored leaves!
Love the cards, so very pretty. I have two sets of the Gina K Designs stamp/die/foil mate sheets sets and I love them!! I want to get some more sets!! Thanks so much for sharing!!
Wow!!! These are simply stunning!!! Love the colours of the leaves!!!
I love the colors in your fall leaves, the foiling on them is SO pretty!
Great technique. Love the leaves.
great cards! Love Gina K Designs
Sooo beautiful!! <3
Nina these cards are both so gorgeous, the shine from the foils is so dramatic in the video, it really is too bad we can’t capture it in a photo.
Beautiful cards with gorgeous results. Guess it’s time to invest in a laminator.
I really like the idea of being able to stamp and foil on the cards! Beautiful projects! I love the watercolors leaves!
These are so great, Nina-Marie! Thanks for the cool inspiration and tutorial!
Very pretty! The foiling is so gorgeous. I really
need to try it.
I especially love the leaves, thank you for the great water coloring tip! Definitely a winning design!
Lovely details with the gold foil. Love the leaves!!
Lovely card Nina. The colors are just wonderful.
This card is gorgeous all around. All the medias that were used came together so well. I love the foil, it’s beautiful and the autumn colors are spectacular!!
Beautiful water colored leaves that are foil embossed! So pretty!
Very nice! I love the leaves!!!
I have got to get into this foiling. So pretty!!
Gorgeous fall card! Love the foiling.
Love the leaves!
So beautiful! I’ve got foilmates on my wishlist!
love the different techniques you used to make these cards – thanks for the ideas:)
Yes, that background die does look like wind swirling those leaves around!! My favorite part after the wonderful sentiment stamp!
Beautiful! Love those leaves!
these cards are stunning! thanks for the techniques
I realize this wasn’t exactly the point of this post, but that Prima watercolor set is gorgeous. I think I need to add some more jewel tones into my watercolor palette! Thanks for sharing these pretty techniques.
Truly beautiful creations! thanks for the video, too!