Crafty Meraki - Hot Foil Expressions Tree

Good morning!  I'm over on the Crafty Meraki Blog again today with a hot foiled holiday card for you.  It doesn't matter how many times I hot foil, I am in awe of the beauty and elegance it produces.

I have a full, detailed tutorial on the blog, but I'll give you a shorter version here. :) 

I started by hot foiling the Jolly Holly Hot Foil Plate with Champagne Glimmer Foil onto a cream card base.  It's a beautiful plate! 

Then I prepped all the pieces I would need to build my Christmas tree.  The sentiments were hot foiled with the Gilded Holiday Expressions Press-Tacular Plate and die cut it with the coordinating dies. Then I trimmed a strip of gold cardstock for the trunk and cut a couple stars with Waffle Flower's Retro Christmas Tree Die.

Working from top to bottom, I chose sentiments in increasing length to build my tree and popped each sentiment up with foam adhesive onto a vellum panel cut with Waffle Flower's largest A2 Piercing Layers Die. 

Finally I tucked in a few berries that I trimmed off of Meraki's smallest Canopy Leaf Die.

Thanks so much for joining me today!  I hope you have a wonderful, crafty weekend and don't forget to check out the Meraki Blog for the full card details.