Make Your Holiday Shine with Foil-Mates™ | Gina K. Designs

Hello friends and welcome to the Gina K. Designs Make Your Holiday Shine with Foil-Mates™ Blog Hop! Today the design team from Gina K. Designs is sharing ideas for creating Christmas Gift Wrap and Cards using the brand new Foil-Mates™ Holiday Release. All of the new products are perfect for creating easy, but elegant looking Christmas cards and gift wrap for the upcoming holiday season. You can check out all of these new products in the Gina K. Designs Shop under the Foil-Mates™ Collection.

Make sure to keep reading for some inspiration using these new products and then hop along for your chance to win a $25 gift certificate and to see more festive inspiration from the Gina K. Design Team. All of the details about the hop and giveaway are listed below.

Coordinating Christmas Gift Bag and Card | Gina K. Designs Foil-Mates™


To create the background on my coordinating Christmas gift bag and card I used a full sheet of the Foil-Mates™ Background - Holiday Flora on the bag and a half sheet on the card. I then trimmed each piece to size and matted it on a piece of Black Onyx cardstock.

I foiled both of these with a piece of Fancy Foils in Radiant Red. All of the new foils have the shimmer and shine of glitter, but without all the mess. You gotta love that! Make sure you hang onto the scraps of foil from both of these. Below, I have a bonus project to share with you on how to use some of these scraps.

Coordinating Christmas Gift Bag and Christmas Card by Juliana Michaels featuring Gina K. Designs Foil-Mates™ and Fancy Foils

The tag on the gift bag was created using the Foil-Mates™ Sentiments  - Tag Tidings. These sentiments were designed to be used with the new Gina K. Designs Decorative Tag Dies. I foiled the tag with a piece of Fancy Foils in Grass Green.

Detail Christmas Gift Bag by Juliana Michaels featuring Gina K. Designs Foil-Mates™ and Fancy Foils

The sentiment on the card was created using the Foil-Mates™ Sentiments - Holiday Cheer.  I die cut it using the Gina K. Designs Stitched Circle Dies and then foiled it with Fancy Foils in Grass Green.

Christmas Card by Juliana Michaels featuring Gina K. Designs Foil-Mates™ and Fancy Foils

For the final decorative touch on both the gift bag and card, I added some of the new Gingham Fancy Ribbon.

Christmas Card by Juliana Michaels featuring Gina K. Designs Foil-Mates™ and Fancy Foils

Bonus Project | Merry Christmas Card with Fancy Foil Scraps


I told you to hang onto those Foil Scraps and now I'm going to share with you a fun way to use them. I'll admit most of my scraps end up in the trash. However, after I created the Christmas card above, I knew I had to save that scrap to create another card. It was just too pretty to throw away!

If you've never used your scraps to foil with, I will walk you through the process. To start with, you will need some Therm O Web Deco Foil Toner Sheets. Cut the Toner Sheet to size, place the scrap of Fancy Foil on top of it, position it between a piece of parchment paper and run this through your preheated laminator. Peel off the transfer sheet to reveal the foiled design. The Toner Sheets are black and I wanted to add more color, so I trimmed a piece of Fancy Foils in Grass Green, placed it on top of the previously foiled toner sheet and ran it back through the laminator. Now it is covered in red and green foil! 

For more inspiration on using your Fancy Foil Scraps, check out these Birthday Cards I created with Gina K. Designs Foil-Mates™.

Merry Christmas Card by Juliana Michaels featuring Gina K. Designs Foil-Mates™ and Fancy Foils Scraps

For this card, I used the Foil-Mates™ Sentiments - Joyful Holiday and foiled it with Fancy Foil in Grass Green. I then die cut is using the Gina K. Designs Stitched Rectangles, which work perfectly with these sentiments.

Merry Christmas Card by Juliana Michaels featuring Gina K. Designs Foil-Mates™ and Fancy Foils Scraps

Blog Hop + Giveaway


Would you like to win a $25 gift certificate to Gina K Designs? If your answer is yes, then all you have to do is visit each blog along the hop (listed below) and leave a comment. One lucky winner will receive a $25 Gina K Designs gift certificate!

Juliana Michaels (you are here)

Supplies


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87 comments

  1. Beautiful cards! Love the bag! Thanks for sharing!

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  2. Love that you can even use the scraps!

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  3. Lovely! And I love that there is no waste!

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  4. There are so many great uses of foil in this blog hop!

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  5. Beautiful! Love the use of the leftovers!

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  6. Love the shiny ideas! Great tips for the left-overs. Thanks for sharing your wonderful ideas.

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  7. Beautiful ideas. The red foil and black and white gingham ribbon are so pretty together.

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  8. Beautiful. Great ideas. Thanks for sharing with us and inspiring us.

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  9. Beautiful! Thanks for the tip of using the foil scraps..

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  10. Just love the foiled gift bag. All the foiled projects are just awesome.
    Thanks for sharing.

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  11. I love your idea of using the scraps with the toner sheets!

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  12. Great sets and even better cards!

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  13. Very pretty cards - love all the foiled projects. Haven't tried them yet, but now it looks like I am going to have to. So pretty. . .

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  14. The poinsettia bag is OTT gorgeous! And, sorry, but I read the description 3 times and I still cannot figure out the red and green foiled background?!

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  15. These are absolutely stunning Juliana..love all that beautiful red! And thanks for showing the secondary card with our Deco Foil Toner Sheets! Brilliant!

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  16. Great idea to make a matching gift bag.

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  17. Beautiful cards and gift bag. Thanks for sharing...

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  18. Wow! Love the scrap idea..just grand ideas!

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  19. The card made with the negative of the foil is just gorgeous! I can't wait to get mine out and start. Wonderful inspiration!

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  20. I love that you used the negative scrap and made a gorgeous card with it. The ribbon looks great on your projects.

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  21. Beautiful bag and card!! Thanks for the scrap tip!

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  22. Beautiful foiled projects and thanks for the tip on using scraps.

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  23. Wonderful cards! Like the red and green foiled piece.

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  24. great bag, would never have thought to make that.

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  25. Wonderful matching bag and tag creations! Love them! <3

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  26. Beautiful projects, Juliana! Love them all!

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  27. The card and bag are lovely. I really like your bonus project, as well. Did you have any trouble with the green foil sticking in places on top of the red you had already foiled?

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    1. Thank you! I did not have any trouble with it sticking to what was already foiled.

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  28. I absolutely love all the new things you have made with the newest foiling products. They are so gorgeous!

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  29. Juliana, love your cards and gift bag...just beautiful!

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  30. Very pretty cards! I love the foiling.

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  31. So pretty! I especially love the one that is double foiled. I just started doing this technique and love the results!!!!!

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  32. Beautiful and pretty and thanks for sharing how to use the scraps. Great ideas.

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  33. wow love your great holiday projects - thanks for sharing:)

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  34. Oh I just love these designs, thank you so much for sharing!!!

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  35. Thanks for this idea on using scraps.

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  36. Wonderful designs and great tip for scraps and toner sheets.

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  37. All your projects are so sparkly and pretty but I was really intrigued by the bonus project with the double colour foil. That is so clever!
    Thanks for sharing the technique! :)

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  38. Color variations are so interestingly cool. Much inspiration, thanks for sharing with us all. Happy Holidays to you and yours.

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  39. Love the matching bag and card. Very stunning.

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  40. WOW Gorgeous. Love the gift bag with matching card. Thanks for the inspiration on using up the scraps. Awesome idea.

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  41. Juliana,
    How chic, holiday bag and matching card ensemble. Wonderful presentation. Thanks for the quick tutorial on reusing our scrap pieces. Keep blinging up you presentations. Thanks for sharing and inspiring.

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  42. Love what you made! The bag and card are amazing!

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  43. Holy cow those creations are such a sight to behold. All so lovely in their own right but my favorite is the card with the negative image. Whoo hoo never throwing my scraps away again now!

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  44. Beautiful Love the ideas for the scraps

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  45. I love last card, very lovely with all foiling going on there

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  46. I love the foiled bag and card. Thanks for the tip of using scrap foil.

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  47. Great projects Geez I wish I could remember to use up my scraps I keep them just have not used them Hope I remember what you did.

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  48. After looking at your creations, I've decided I need to order these.

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  49. Beautiful projects. That bag is gorgeous and I love how you used the scraps to create the beautiful card.

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  50. Very creative...Love that you also use the scraps 😘

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  51. Your designs make elegant gift bags and cards that are fast to make with Foil-Mates. Thanks for the inspiration.

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  52. Your creation are really awesome !!!!!

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  53. I love the gift bag the most. I like to make and decorate my own bags. I will definitely be using yours as an example. Thanks.

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  54. Love the matching gift bag and card!

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  55. I love the gift bag and the idea of using foil mates for tags!

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  56. Love all these. Had so much fun foiling myself.

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  57. Very pretty. I love using the negatives

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  58. I love having coordinating bags and cards!

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  59. Wow! Just love the matching card and bag--what a great idea! Thanks so much for sharing! (Peg Z.)

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  60. Oh my !! All these creations are so gorgeous !! The gift bag is just perfect !

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  61. Such pretty cards! I love how everything sparkles!!

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  62. Wow! Love this technique! I'm totally in love for your stunning projects!!!


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  63. Absolutely love the fact that you can get double the cards when you use your scraps. Your cards are gorgeous. Thanks for sharing. Big Hugs!!

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  64. stunning designs and projects - thank for sharing:)

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  65. WOW! Your cards, tags, and gift bag are just fabulous! I'm obviously needing to get me some foil and designs! Thanks for sharing!

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  66. Very nice cards. I love how you matched your card and bag

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  67. Stunning work.... love, love, love the bag!

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  68. Your cards are beautiful! I have to try creating in foils more often. You are definitely an inspiration! Thank you.

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JULIANA

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