Gold Foil Holiday Cards with Hand Drawn Evergreens
Nothing says holiday like a little sparkle so this year I decided to design my holiday cards using black cardstock and gold foil. For an extra touch I also added some evergreen branches that I drew with colored pencils.
To apply the foil design I used my Heidi Swapp Minc Foil Applicator. I started by making designing my card with scattered small dots across the left and my holiday greeting in the lower right corner. I made my cards 5"x7" and fit two on a page. I then printed my card using my laser printer onto black cardstock. The Minc reacts to the toner of laser printing so it won't work with an ink jet printer but you can always bring your print to a copy store to make laser printed copies.
Next I drew my evergreen branches using colored pencils. I started by using brown to draw some branches along the side of the card. I then used light colored green to add pine needles and then added a little shading with a slightly darker colored green.
When I was experimenting with making the cards I tried drawing the evergreens first and then laser printing the design but I found I had much better results when I did the laser printing first.
With the evergreens drawn I placed my cardstock into my Minc transfer folder, layered some gold reactive foil
About a minute later it was done and I could peel back the foil to see the gold design where I the laser print had been.
After I trimmed down my cards to size they were complete.
To send off my cards I used black A7 envelopes I purchased at my local stationary shop, Rock Paper Scissors. As an aside, if you are ever in Ann Arbor you should definitely stop to visit it as well as its sister store, Bed & Butter, which is an amazing shop to pick up things for your home. To match the gold foil on the cards I addressed the envelopes with a gold metallic Sharpie.
I really like how the cards turned out. The gold foil is festive and the hand drawn evergreens are a personal touch and make each card unique. Now I'm off to the post office to drop them in the mail...
Monday, December 21, 2015 at 3:55PM | Posted by Lisa | 16 Comments | Share Article | Email Article | Print Article 
Reader Comments (16)
Your cards are beautiful! I've seen the Minc machine (at Michael's maybe?) and wondered how it works. Thanks for the explanation!
Love love love this! Simple, creative, with a lovely handmade touch. Perfect! Happy holidays Lisa!
Theresa- Thank you so much! The Minc is super easy to use and now I want to gold foil everything.
Hilary- You are so sweet! Thank you! Happy holidays to you, too!
Beautiful cards - works of art - Merry Christmas to you & Frank. .... Mary-Lou
Lovely card and nice sharing of your card sample.
Beautiful customisation here!
That is very beautiful and I like all thing you are doing and showing us here, but I would like to know if it takes a lot of time? And where are you looking for new ideas?
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That is easy to draw a card. Hand -made things are really pleasant to get and nice to create it for a person you love very much.
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