Thursday, October 19, 2023

Glimmering Happy Holidays with Spellbinders

One thing that is truly beautiful about Winter is how it glimmers.  Snow sparkle is a wonderful thing to behold.  This new Glimmer stencil and Hot Foil from Spellbinders called Glimmer Holly Background gives me all of those snow sparkle feelings!  First I foiled the design in silver. I decided on a non-traditional palette of teal, pink and green and stencilled in the colour with Concord & 9th inks.  


I added in some extra greenery and berries using a second foiled and stencilled background and cut these pieces out as accent.  A fun part of Glimmer dies is that they can also be used to deboss the lines into cardstock, so the center white layer has the same pattern of embossing.  A little faint in this photo but more visable in the next.  


After using the left over foil from the design on a Solid Rectangle Essential Glimmer Hot Foil Plate  I was able to create reverse foiling to be able to cut a Happy Holidays sentiment with a retired die.  I sponged this with Aqua Sky ink to tie the colours together.  Silver foiling really does take on the colours around it.  So it shines different colours.  

A few enamel berries finish off the shimmery design.  

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