I really like the end result from this glimmer hot foil machine! I bought this Spellbinders Geometric Optical background hot foil plate and I really love it. I foiled a white piece of cardstock in purple foil (duh!). And then I had this "leftover" foil with that pattern on it. I have watched so many hot foiling videos and all those industry experts talk about saving the scraps and doing reverse foiling. WHAT IS THAT? Well, first you need a solid foil plate to put the remnants on and then foil again. With that in mind, I got a solid hot foil oval plate. Then I ran it through the glimmer machine twice because the background was big enough to make 2 ovals. Y'all, that is 3 cards for one piece of foil! YES!
Card 3: Purple Geometric Background with "You Are Loved" in black on vellum. The purple foil is so shiny!
Card 4: Purple Oval on top of dry embossed dots (all on foam tape) with silver "just because" on vellum. I love the font and size of the just because sentiment.
Card 5: Much like the just because but with "happy birthday" in silver. Again. love the font/size and sentiment.

What do you think? The purple and silver are good together, right? 

Cards 1 and 2
I recently acquired Simon Hurley's Lunar Paste (don't know about Simon? Google him. Amazing story and he is my oldest son's age). Anyway, his lunar paste is really creamy and dries fairly quickly. I took this pyramid stencil I have and covered it with the clear skies (blue), crown me (purple) and prom queen (pink) lunar paste. I forgot to take the before picture but you can see the cardstock after I cut out the pieces.  I got 2 backgrounds plus a sentiment out of that cardstock and probably could have used the scraps, too (I didn't because I was having a hard time figuring out what else to make!)

Card 1: Hello Script in Gold Foil.  I dry embossed that same stencil on a piece of white cardstock and lined it up with the circle cutout lunar paste background on top of it. Added the gold foiled hello and some bling. 

Card 2: Bold Hello in Silver Foil. This background was big enough and colorful enough to have it on it's own. Added a little silver metallic cord and popped up the hello foil and it's vellum shadow on some foam tape. 

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