Simon Says (Monday) - Fun With Foil!

Hi everyone,

January is flying by, and I’m here again for my third week as Guest Designer for the  

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge.

This week’s theme is

Fun With Foil

The lovely folks over at Simon Says Stamp are generously giving away a FABULOUS $25 voucher to shop at the  Simon Says Stamp Store! All you have to do is take out your crafty supplies, make something following this week’s prompt, and add a link in the Inlinkz  on the challenge blog post!  You can enter 5 times so that's 5 possible chances to win! All winners are chosen randomly, so everyone has an equal chance - good luck everyone!

Here's my card for this week - everything used on this card is new  (links to my supplies are below the description). 

This was an interesting challenge for me, as I have only used foil once before in a very simplistic way and have no equipment for hot foiling, so I decided to try a simple cold foiling technique. I used Therm O Web Transfer Gel Duo, which is a gel paste for use with deco foil that can be set either with heat via a laminator, or with pressure via a die cutting machine. I cut a 6” square of white stamping card and applied the gel through a Simon Says Stamp Geo Leaves stencil, and allowed it to dry. I then rubbed over a sheet of Therm O Web Rainbow Deco Foil and ran through my die cutting machine, then peeled off the foil sheet to reveal the foiled panel. The key to this technique is to ensure you let the paste dry until it is clear before foiling, otherwise you don’t get a crisp result - I found it’s best to leave it for a couple of hours. 

I stamped a sentiment from the Therm O Web OH HELLO  stamp and die set using Versamark and heat embossed white, then die cut with the matching die. I attached the sentiment to a blank portion of the foiled panel then matted onto black and gold mirror card stock and a 7” card blank.

Here are links to what I used:

Stamps/dies: Therm O Web OH HELLO stamp and die set;

Media: Therm O Web Transfer Gel Duo, Therm O Web Rainbow Deco Foil Transfer Sheets; Versamark; WOW Opaque Bright White Super Fine embossing powder;

Tools: Simon Says Stamp Geo Leaves stencil.

Don’t forget to visit the challenge blog to see the amazing inspiration from the rest of the Design Team.

You have until Monday 8am Ohio time (EST), 1pm UK time (GMT), 2 pm CET to join in.

Challenges I would like to enter: 

Cardz 4 Galz #241 - Use Stencils (2nd entry) - TOP 3

Colourful Options (January) - Rainbow Inspired

Crafty Catz #685 - Anything Goes

Crazy Is Our Fame, Stencils Are Our Game (January) - Use a Stencil (2nd entry)

Daisy Chain #92 - No Designer Paper (2nd entry)

Die Cut Divas (January) - Use Something New  (3rd entry)

Dream Valley #328 - Something New (2nd entry)

Fab ‘n’ Funky #608 - All Things Bright and Beautiful

Love to Craft #84 - Anything Goes

Love To Scrap #171 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

My Time to Craft #551 - Use a Sentiment (2nd entry)

NBUS #70 - Use Your Never-Before-Used-Schtuff

Simon Says (Wednesday) - Clean and Simple

We Love 2 Create #1 2025 - Anything Mixed Media/Papercrafting Goes (2nd entry)

Word Art Wednesday #683/684 - Anything Goes (2nd entry) 

Word Power (January) - Focal Sentiment

Quite a different card today from my usual style, but it’s good to get outside our comfort zone sometimes! 😀 I found the rainbow coloured foil particularly suited to lend a wow factor to a simple design, so am pretty pleased with how it turned out. 

Take care, and thanks for visiting my blog today.

Hugs,