Festive Friday 2025 #20

How is it already 20 weeks into the year? Wow!

Back with another Festive Friday project and this time I was experimenting with dies and my glimmer machine and decided to give a try of foiling a gelli print to see what happened – so what happened was the foil stuck in some places it shouldn’t – I suspect I need to adjust the sandwich a bit – but because it’s an experiment and already on something a bit different I went with it!

I actually think that the background was a wipe up piece from the gelli printing session rather than an actual gelli print but that means multiple colours and some odd lines and shapes! I used a mistletoe background die I got some time ago and haven’t yet used – so this was my first time taking it out of the packet! Odd that my first choice for using it was for this experiment but there you go!

I used the green foil and then trimmed down to the usual size of the die (the dies give an impression so it’s easy to see where the outline was) and then mounted it onto green foiled cardstock.

I then took another of those backgrounds from the gelli printing session – pretty sure this was a gelli print through a leafy stencil and stamped and embossed the Kate Crane Paperartsy tree and the mistletoe images and the Joy sentiment onto some white cardstock.

I then cut a black rectangle for the tree to sit on, and a circle for the sentiment to sit on (I punched the sentiment out).

I added adhesive foam under the black panel and the circle sentiment so it raised them up.

Once everything was adhered down I used my green glitter glue to add to the baubles on the tree – so there was yet more shine! Three different types of green shine in total!

Love how this came out – a bit grungy and very funky and a great use of the gelli print backgrounds that have been sat there for some time!

Also loved that die and glimmer foil experiment- again I suspect the over foiling came from not getting the sandwich right and maybe the paper was too thin so bent too much when it went through the machine.

Will need to continue to experiment!

Happy crafting!

Catherine