Shimmer and Shine

Hello crafty friends!! Please join me for a new challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge. This week the challenge is

Shimmer and Shine

We are showcasing Gina K Designs Products this week. If you have any of these products, we’d love to see them used, but it’s certainly not a requirement to join the challenge.

As always, the generous folks at Simon Says Stamp will be giving away a $25 voucher to one randomly selected winner to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store. You can enter 5 times which means you can make 5 different projects following this week’s prompt and have 5 chances to win a shopping spree!! Sounds like a win/win to me!! I’ve linked all of the supplies that I used at the end of this post. Compensated affiliate links used where possible at no cost to you.

This card was so much fun to make. And it was so easy!! It was my first time trying the adhesive transfers and I gotta say I am in love! These are so sparkly and so shiny and so fun to play with. Let’s get started.

I started out making my background first. I had these scraps left over from another project and I absolutely LOVED the colors so I thought they would make an awesome background. The colors I used are just card stock from my stash but I found colors that are available at Simon Says Stamp that are as close to the colors I used as possible. I cut all 5 colors down to 1/4″ wide strips and starting with a 110 lb. piece of Neenah card stock, I started gluing the strips in rainbow order.

As you can see, I paid no attention to which direction my card stock was facing when I put the adhesive transfers on it so the rainbow order is backwards, but that’s ok! Would you have noticed if I hadn’t pointed it out?

I chose which transfers I wanted to use while I warmed up my minc machine but I wasn’t even sure if it would turn out since my background was not smooth. It had all the creases from each strip of card stock so I was wondering if it would look good or if it would have dropped the foil on each strip of rainbow. Does that make sense?

There’s two different ways you can use these transfers, with or without heat. You can either use a laminator (or a minc machine like I used) or you can transfer the foil using your die cutting machine. I cut the images out that I wanted to use and I removed the back layer to expose the adhesive. I lightly pressed them on my background and then I put the background inside my transfer folder and ran it through my minc for the first time.

I removed the top protective sheet now to expose the adhesive that the foil will stick to and I cut my foil down to just cover the image. I placed the foil over my image and again I lightly pressed it onto my card stock.

I ran it through my minc machine again and then I burnished it a bit just because I didn’t quit know what to expect. And this is where it gets down right magical. When I removed that foil, it was love at first sight!! I was so happy with how this turned out, I even used it on the inside of the card. I added a few Metallic Silver Jewels by Pretty Pink Posh and attached it to a top folding card base and I was done.