Lesley's Stampin Ground

Saturday, 29 August 2026

Lustrous Leaves Hot Foil Bundle

Hi everyone,

I always love some glimmer and shine on my cards so the hot foil and the Metal Effects Specialty Paper (#167105) doesn’t disappoint. Also my obsession with Hot Foiling continues.

I have used the Lustrous Leaves Hot Foil Dies (#170558) with Copper Stampin’ Hot Foil Rolls (#170553) on Basic White card (#166781). The Lustrous Leaves Bundle (#170559) also includes the Lustrous Leaves Decorative Masks (#170557) which I have used to colour the leaves using Blending Brushes (#153611). The coloured inks used are Old Olive (#147090), Pecan Pie (#161665), Crumb Cake (#147116), Cajun Craze (#147085), Cherry Cobbler (#147083), Granny Apple Green (#147095), Pretty Peacock (#150083) and Golden Glow (#167676). It’s great to be able to get different shades of the one colour with using less colour and pressure for the lighter colour, or more colour and pressure for a darker colour, which I have done on some of the leaves.

The cutting dies were used to cut the leaves once they were coloured.

I used the Framed & Fabulous Hot Foil Dies (#170578) & Copper Foil for the circular image and cut it with a cutting die from the same set. “Best Wishes” is from the Framed & Fabulous stamp set (#170573). These are available as a bundle - Framed & Fabulous Bundle - (#170579).

The card front is the Copper from the Metal Effects Specialty Paper (#167105) and I dry embossed this with the Textured Tree Ring Embossing Folder (#168220) before attaching it to the Basic White base card.

The leaves & sentiment were attached with Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals (#144108) and Mini Glue Dots (#103683). The embellishments on the sentiment are from the Glossy Garden Dots (#168577).

“Love what you do and share what you love.”

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Friday, 28 August 2026

Lustrous Leaves Hot Foil Dies

Hi again everyone,

The Lustrous Leaves Hot Foil Dies (#170558) will be available from 1st September, and have been used on today’s card.

I used the Copper Stampin’ Hot Foil Rolls (#170553) for the leaves and the sentiment. After hot foiling the leaves I then used the negative image with the Reverse Hot Foil Die (#170043), and I used a mix of these. I love how you can get double the foiling using the Reverse plate.

The card used for the leaves are all Two Tone cardstock as this is slightly smoother and I find especially for the reverse image it works better. The colours I used are Crushed Curry (#166670), Pecan Pie (#166688), Old Olive (#166683) and Peaceful Pine (#167698).

The leaves were cut with the co-ordinating cutting dies. I then cut some smaller leaves from the same set using some retired copper foils.

The sentiment is from the Classic Greetings Hot Foil Dies (#170042). This was also cut with co-ordinating dies.

The Basic White card front (#166781) was dry embossed with the Ferns & Flora Embossing Folder (#167744). This was matted with Metal Effects Specialty Paper (#167105). I also used this paper to cut the label from the Paradise Garden dies (#167120).

The leaves were attached to the card with Mini Glue Dots (#103683) and Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals (#144108). The label was attached with Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals and the sentiment was attached with Mini Glue Dots.

“Love what you do and share what you love.”

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Thursday, 27 August 2026

Classic Greetings Hot Foil Dies

Hello everyone,

I was having a long needed clean up of my craft table and came across a card base from the Beautiful Blues kit (which is now retired) and some other bits & pieces, so thought I would make a quick card with them.

I had used the Flourish & Frames Hot Foil Dies (#170064) on Vellum Specialty Paper (#167099) using Silver Stampin’ Hot Foil roll (#170067). I then cut this label with the co-ordinating cutting die. The Night Of Navy card (#106577) was also cut with one of the dies.

“Thinking Of You” is from the Classic Greetings Hot Foil Dies (#170042) and I also used the Silver Foil. The co-ordinating cutting die cut the sentiment. The labels were taped together and attached to the card and the sentiment was attached with Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals (#144108).

The embellishments are from the Shimmering Dots (#167949).

I have a range of sentiments and other pieces from Hot Foiling put aside which makes it easy when I need a quick & easy card.

“Love what you do and share what you love.”

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Wednesday, 26 August 2026

Tile Garden dies

Hi & welcome again,

A sneak peek of some products available next week (1st September) from the new catalogue. I have used the Tile Garden dies (#168573) to cut the squares.

I cut 2 of the larger squares from Basic White card (#166785). I attached these together - one was placed as a square and the other as a diamond to create the shape.The small squares were cut from the Mosaic Garden Designer Series Paper (#168566) and attached them alternately to the larger white card.

The Basic White card front was dry embossed with the retired Beautiful Pattern Embossing Folder, then matted with Hydrangea Hue card (#167688) and attached to the Basic White base card.

“Thank You” is from the Classic Greetings Hot Foil Dies (#170042) using Silver Stampin’ Hot Foil Rolls (#170067). This was hot foiled onto Hydrangea Hue card. The co-ordinating cutting die cut the sentiment.

The small circle was cut using a die from the Stylish Shapes (#159183), dry embossed with the Beautiful Pattern Embossing Folder and attached to the card with Mini Glue Dots (#103683).

I used Stampin’ Dimensionals (#104430) and Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals (#144108) to attach the sentiment and die cut “squares” to the card.

2026-2028 In Color Butterflies (#167656) were added to the card.

“Love what you do and share what you love.”

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Tuesday, 25 August 2026

Gold Hot Foiling

Hello friends,

Another card with Hot Foiling and using the Gold Stampin’ Hot Foil (#170066) for “Happy Birthday”.

I used the Luxe Alphabet & Numbers Hot Foiling Dies (#170044) for the letters for “Happy”. They have a co-ordinating cutting die to cut each individual letter at the one time. For “Birthday” I used the Gold Foil with the Reverse Hot Foil Die (#170043), then cut it with a Words & Wishes Die (#167894).

The DSP is from the beautiful August Product Of The Month which is Glow Of Harvest Specialty Designer Series Paper (#168598). I cut the front piece with a Perennial Postage die (#162607) and matted it with Cajun Craze card (#121683), then attached it to another of the Glow Of Harvest DSP. This was then attached to the Basic White base card (#166781).

The sentiment was glued with Multipurpose Liquid Glue (#110755).

“Love what you do and share what you love.”

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Monday, 24 August 2026

Glow Of Harvest Specialty Designer Series Paper

Welcome everyone,

The floral image on today’s card is from the Glow Of Harvest Specialty Designer Series Paper (#168598). This is the August Product Of The Month which is available to purchase for $9 (in Australia) with a $125 order. This beautiful paper has a fine shimmer all over. I fussy cut this image.

The card front is Golden Glow (#167686) and this was dry embossed with the Softly Woven Embossing folder (#168466). This is available in the next catalogue from 1st September. I matted this with Pecan Pie card (#161726) and attached it to the Very Vanilla base card (#166785).

The Flourish & Frames Hot Foil Dies (#170064) were used for the label. I used the Silver Opal Stampin’ Hot Foil (#170554) on Two-Tone Crumb Cake card (#166671) and this was cut with the co-ordinating cutting dies. I also used the Silver Opal Foil for the sentiment from the Classic Greetings Hot Foil Dies (#170042). Even though this is silver foil it picks up all the colours around.

The leaves were cut with the cutting dies from the (upcoming) Lustrous Leaves Hot Foil dies (#170558) using both sides of the Two-Tone cardstock. The leaves were attached to the card with Mini Glue Dots (#103683) and the floral image and sentiment were attached with Stampin’ Dimensionals (#104430) and Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals (#144108).

I have used the (retired) Iredescent Faceted Gems to compete the card.

“Love what you do and share what you love.”

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