While watching the Jennifer McGuire's video on using gilding flakes, and how she used a "hello" die cut on a piece of sticky paper before adding the flakes, it occurred to me that possibly peel-off stickers would also work.
My gilding flakes haven't arrived yet, but I thought I would try attaching a sticker to some glitter paper and coloring the inside design (coloring on glitter paper was taught in an earlier class). I grabbed a sheet of stickers (Dazzles Vintage Cars Stickers from Hot off the Press), and stuck it on a small piece leftover silver glitter paper. It stuck on very well, after a little burnishing, and then I colored in the car body with my Copics. The color dried much lighter than it went on, so I had to go over the red again with a darker red, because the first time the card turned out pink.
I then foiled another Foil Mates background. I had a lot of trouble with that, first trying one foil that didn't melt to the background, even doing it a couple of times. Then I tried another foil, to see if a different brand would work better. Still nothing, so cut another sheet of the background to try that. Nothing. Then I tried it again, this time adding an additional sheet of card stock in the stack before running it through the laminator. Did better, so I ran it through again. Finally, success! I don't know what the problem was, didn't have any trouble earlier in the week when I did it. When I used the leftover silver foil on a sheet of toner card, I had to do it three times, and there were still little spots that didn't take the foil. I put the sentiment over the worst of it.
All in all, I was pleased with how the card came out. I liked the idea of using the stickers, even though I'm not a big fan of fussy cutting, and I think it turned out pretty well. Sorry abut the photo, it was the best one, even though I am semi-reflected in the background.
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