Spruce up those card backgrounds with some fun gel printing and deco foil.
Today’s creative Spring design comes from our designer, Lisa, who said, “The Greenery Wreath is perfect for any season, but for today it felt like Spring. I wanted to jazz up the background and thought a shimmery deco foil would be a great way to add some interest and dimension”. We agree, it truly took this wreath card to the next level. Follow along as Lisa shows us how to make a deco foiled gel-print card background for Spring.
How to make this card:
- I started by adding deco foil to a gel print cut with the 5013d Nested Rectangle Small Stitch Die Set. When I create gel prints using acrylic paint, it’s easy to add some foil sparkle by running it through a laminator after it’s dry but before it gets too old. The fresher the gel print the more foil will transfer.
- I used the 4133 Circle Weave Pattern Stencil 6×6 to add Transfer Gel Duo to the panel and set it aside to dry to tacky… about an hour or two depending on the amount of Gel.
- While it was drying, I die cut the wreath, flowers and extra foliage from the 5743d Greenery Wreath w Flowers Die from more foiled gel prints.
- After the panel was tacky, I placed a sheet of deco foil over the top and used my Stencil Pal to transfer foil to the panel. I love adding foil this way with hand pressure for a distressed look. And I extra love the foil over the foil.
- Next I started to assemble my wreath adding extra foliage I cut a circle of vellum using the 5002d Classic Nested Circle Dies to fit behind the wreath… mostly to make the center less busy and adhered it to the background and then layered the assembled wreath over it with more liquid adhesive.
- Then I added the flowers to the wreath. I used a stylus to give the flowers some dimension and just adhered them all with some liquid adhesive until I was happy with the way it looked.
- The sentiment from the 36026 Butterfly Kisses 5×6 Stamp Set was stamped onto white cardstock with Dreamer ink from the Color Fuse Set #9 and then cut out with another circle and popped up into the center of the wreath.
- Finally, I cut some hummingbirds using the 5506-05d Humming Birds Die, adding an eye on each with a black zig marker and popped them up around the wreath.
How beautiful is this Deco Foiled Gel-Print Card Background? We adore the shimmer and texture and can’t wait to try this on multiple upcoming projects. The spring wreath looks really whimsical set against this background and we love how it turned out.
If you love this background, take a look at a few other gel-print backgrounds Lisa has made HERE.