Warm Winter Wishes

Today I'm playing at the Neglected Stuff Challenge and the item I feel is most neglected in my craft room at the moment is my foil laminator. I'll be honest.. I never had much luck with the Spellbinders Glimmer machine.. I cringe at the amount of paper I've thrown away at 50 cents a sheet. And while alot of it would be "passable" in the real world.. when you're taking close ups like me and you're looking through a zoom lens you really see all the flaws. That kind of turned me off foiling.

The solution for me is the Pink and Main Minc machine. With this process you use preprinted toner sheets called Foilables, and you laminate them with your choice of Cheerfoil colors and let me tell you there are ALOT! This system even works well with toner sheets you create yourself using a laser printer. These are perfect every time and totally flawless. The only problem here? Trying to photograph the shiny foil so that it doesn't look black! I guess you can't win them all!

These Foilable sheets are printed in color and I just added a Translucent Opal foil to them so the color still shows through. For this card I used a snowflake panel and added gems to all the snowflake centers.

The Foilable pack I used is called Winter Spotlight Sayings. You can use the coordinating die set to cut out the sentiments and/or the individual snowflakes. I used the snowflake panel as a background for my design. You can see the photography issues below.

I want you to see all that shine, but when it's too shiny you get alot of glare.. so I'm still neglecting my foil on my blog. But not because it's not working, but because i need to sort out my photography!

I hope you're keeping warm and maybe it's a good day to try using something you've been neglecting too!

Finished Size: 4.25 x 5.5"
Foilable | Pink & Main Winter Spotlight Sayings
Foil | Pink & Main Translucent Opal Cheerfoil
Dies | Scallop Circle Dies, Stitched Circle, Scallop Rectangle, Winter Spotlight Sayings
Twine | Pink & Main Brownstone Twine
Gems | Pink & Main Summer Fruits Enamel Dots

PINK = Pink & Main
SCB = Scrapbook Dot Com
SSS = Simon Says Stamp

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Winter Spotlight Sayings PINK | SCB | SSS	Winter Spotlight Sayings PINK | SCB | SSS	Stitched Circle PINK | SCB | SSS	Scallop Circle PINK | SCB | SSS	Scallop Rectangle PINK | SCB | SSS
Translucent Opal PINK | SCB | SSS	Mini Minc Foiling Machine PINK | SCB | SSS	Foiling Transfer Folders PINK | SCB | SSS	Summer Fruits PINK | SCB | SSS
Brownstone PINK | SCB | SSS