Foiled Hexagons by Heather Telford

I’m back to share a little sparkle with you today. I have to admit the first sparkly card I shared featured a lot of sparkles, this one is a bit more subtle. Wherever your sparkly cards fit on the spectrum they are welcome in the ‘Sparkle With Us’ challenge. I have seen sparkly sentiments, sparkly backgrounds and sparkly features in the challenge gallery so far.

To create this geometric style card I used an alcohol ink on Yupo panel which had been sitting in my ‘pile of possibility’; it was simply an experiment with two Ranger colors, currant & flamingo. I dropped the inks on my Yupo paper and let them blend and push each other around. I also left some areas blank and added blending solution to dilute and move ink in other areas. Just in case you haven’t tried them, let me tell you alcohol inks are a lot of fun!

As I mentioned the panel was made quite a while ago but I pulled it out for the sparkle challenge after I learned a new trick. The foil will stick to some alcohol inks or some areas of alcohol ink even after it is well and truly dry. When working with alcohol inks some areas dry thick and a little sticky. You can press foil on these sticky areas soon after creating and just rub it to get it to stick. To make the foil stick to my dry panel I lay the foil on top of the panel and ran it through my Minc at #2 heat setting. The heat was enough to warm up the sticky areas so the foil would adhere. The foil only stuck in some areas which gave me a pretty, abstract pink and gold design.

I added stick-it adhesive to my Yupo panel, cut a bunch of hexagons then cut the same number from a sheet of foam and stuck them together. However, I would suggest you utilize the clever Neat & Tangled star cover plate die to cut yours! Use stick-it on the back of your Yupo panel, adhere to the foam then run it all through the die cutting machine.

I arranged my hexagons on a white rectangle die-cut panel and glued them with a liquid adhesive which gave me time to wiggle them around to be in the right position. To tie in the foiled feature with the card base I adhered a strip of narrow double-sided tape then pressed gold foil over the top. I popped up my rectangular panel, trimmed the points that hung over the card edge and added a sentiment from the Penny Black Happy Snippets set in eggplant-colored ink.

I would love to see your projects if you try this technique; please link them to the challenge gallery. ♥