DT: Kingston Crafts – foiled cardstock

I made this card using the super shiny rainbow foiled cardstock from Kingston Crafts as one of my design team projects – it is probably one of the hardest projects I’ve ever photographed as the best way of seeing the card is not face on!

I think that is the best photo I have of it!

So I wanted to emboss the pretty coloured foiled cardstock with a floral image but not have it contrast in colour – I chose some powder that was just slightly darker than the colour of the pink cardstock – but as a result of both the shine and the tone on tone embossing it doesn’t show well on camera – but makes a lovely card in real life!

I took an old magazine stamp set and embossed the floral cluster image and then fussy cut it out.

I then created layers for under with the plain foiled cardstock and some white cardstock. I decided to round the corners and this created some lovely panels (NB I did gut the black where it can’t be seen as don’t want to waste any of it!)

Next I added a strip of the patterned black and white paper for contrast and stamped and embossed a sentiment which I cut out using a banner die.

I also die cut some tiny circles from leftover black foiled cardstock as little embellishments.

I raised the floral element and the sentiment cluster up on foam adhesive for dimension and then adhered it all to a 5×7 cardblank.

It’s a simple card but with all the shine it is so cool in real life – just a shame photographing it is such a nightmare! And of course I also want to say – “as seen on tv” because it did make an appearance a few weeks ago when Martin did his last Kingston Crafts show ❤️

Happy crafting!

Catherine