Happy Birthday, Liam

The nephew celebrated his 24th Birthday on the weekend.

 

I know I say it every year, but ....... where does the time go?  It is going by so fast!

 

Anyway......  onto the card I made for him.

 

I have been fine-tuning my foiling process and think I have got the perfect combination of settings, paper and sandwiches.

 

I designed the card in Photoshop, so that I could select which layers to print using the Laser printer (for the sentiment) and the ink jet printer (for the colour).

 

The balloons were printed first on Epson glossy photo paper, then I waited a little while to make sure the ink was completely dry.

 

The sentiment was printed using the Brother Mono Laser printer, then I ran it through the Mini Minc.

 

 

The sandwich I have got the most success with is:  the photo paper with the gold foil on top, then a layer of Reflex copy paper, all placed in a Minc carrier sheet.  Heat setting on the Minc was '3' and turned on ate least 10 minutes before it was needed.  I made sure the card was completely cool before peeling off the foil ..... hey presto... perfect foil!

 

I also foiled the inside sentiment for something different this year. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.

Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.