Layering stencils

A Butterfly Note

Hello. More time in my craft room today to create this card. My goodness – this was a labour of love. It seemed to take forever, and quite a few variations and tried at it……..

To create this card, I used some Waffle Flower products and Pinkfresh Studio inks. I started by cutting the ‘Butterfly Blossom‘ texture die out of white card stock. I then used the layering stencils to colour them all in. There are 5 layering stencils, two for the flowers, and two for the butterflies – the background and then the details on the wings. I didn’t use the fifth stencil – butterfly bodies and flower centres – as I die cut them out of Spellbinders brushed gold card stock.

I also blended a little darker shade for the flower centres, before adding the brushed gold on top to give a little added detail.

Once blended, I die cut the base layer once more and glued it behind to give a little more dimension and stability, then glued down to a card base.

The sentiment is also from Waffle Flower – white shadow layer and brushed gold for the sentiment – two more layers of white behind the words.

The most time I took was choosing which colours – I played with several other combinations until I decided on these colours – but I will play more with this set now I kinda know what is going on…..!

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Creative Fingers – anything goes

Crafty Animals – anything goes with an animal

Stencil Fun – use stencils – option of summer fun

Craft Rocket – no designer paper

Make My Monday – one or more butterflies

Shaker Holiday Cheer

Hello everyone. I have a fun Christmas shaker card to share today as The Holly & Ivy Christmas Challenge has started a new challenge – anything goes Christmas. Here is my card:

I used a Tonic Studios shaker pocket to create this. I first cut a panel of red card stock, then adhered the shaker pocket to three sides, added just a small amount of sequins and beads (a lot actually!), then stuck down the last edge.

This shaker panel was then adhered to a white card base.

The frame image is using the Pinkfresh Studio ‘Joy of the Season’ suite, and foiling the image and sentiment in black foil, then using the matching layering stencils to colour them in with a traditional colour pallet. Once die cut, the frame and sentiment were glued to the shaker panel.

I hope you can come and join us with your Christmas creations. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

My Time To Craft Christmas – Christmas and use flowers

Peace On Earth – Anything goes Christmas with optional mood board

Creative Fingers – anything goes

12 Months of Christmas link-up – anything goes Christmas – option of blue and gold not taken

Christmas Bingo – column O – free/sequins/vellum or clear plastic overlay

Merry Little Christmas Challenge – anything goes Christmas

Bunny Thanks

Hello once again everyone. I have a card to share as Guest Design Team for this new challenge at Dragonfly Dreams. I was lucky enough to be chosen as one of the Top 3 for the January challenge and was invited to join them for a future challenge.

Their new challenge theme is ‘animals’. Here is my card:

I wanted to use a new to me die set from The Greetery of this cute little bunny called ‘Bunny Kisses’. This die set includes the bunny and a few other elements for the bunny to hold – I chose to use the flowers for this card, but there are also some little eggs.

The bunny was die cut and assembled, and I also put several flowers together in different colours to be able to choose how many and which colours I wanted once the card was assembled.

I created the background florals using a layering stencil and Pinkfresh Studio inks, then cut that down so I could layer it with a black panel, and then layered that onto a white card base.

When I lay the bunny onto the background, I felt it was too busy behind him, so I added a circular vellum die cut, then the bunny. This circle die is also from Pinkfresh Studio.

I added the flowers then the black foiled sentiment, as well as some black enamel dots.

I hope I see you in the Dragonfly dreams gallery with your creations featuring animals. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Beautiful Blossoms – flowers – optional mood board

Ally’s Angels – anything goes

Crafters Café – anything goes – option of CAS not taken

Mix It Up – anything goes – option of lots of layers taken

Love To Craft – anything goes

Crafty Animals – anything goes with an animal

Give A Crafter A Cookie – photo Inspiration – bunny was my inspiration

Thanks For Everything

Hello everyone. I have a card to share using new products from Pinkfresh Studio. This press plate, stamp, die, and colouring stencils are from the Pinkfresh Studio event happening this weekend. I made this putting my take on the products whilst the live event:

I began by hot foiling the press plate of the balloons, then used the layering stencils to colour them. I created some dimension with varying the pressure of the ink blending brush, and also added a slightly darker blue to the left and under-side of each balloon.

I then hot foiled the sentiment – also products from the event – then die cut it and stacked a couple more layers beneath that.

This is a 5×7 inch card, and I used a ‘Dragonfruit‘ piece of card stock and a Spellbinders embossing folder for the background, adhered with a layer of foam, and attached to the card base.

The two balloon images were adhered with 3D foam beneath each balloon, then the sentiment glued down.

I also added some clear drops from Altenew:

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Festive Friday – incorporate at least three items – pink, glossy drops, ink blending, words of encouragement/kindness, balloons

CYHTP – embossing folder, option of using something beginning with ‘F’ taken – foiling

Addicted To Stamps And More – make your mark

Stencil Fun – use a stencil – option of pink and/or red taken

You’re Sweet

Hello everyone. I’m popping in to share a card created using the photo inspiration from the current Just Add Ink Challenge:

Here is the photo they used for inspiration:

And here is what I created:

I was inspired by the glass and the colour scheme, as well as the use of fruits.

I started by creating the background panel using Concord & 9th card stock and a Spellbinders embossing folder. This was then glued flat to a card base.

The glass, fruit, and foliage images are all from Pinkfresh Studio, and a mixture of a couple of sets.

The images were stamped then heat embossed with gold embossing powder, then all images coloured using the relevant layering stencils. I used Pinkfresh inks in a couple of coral and pink tones for the fruit, then a couple of green tones for the leaves.

The glass itself is actually from a Christmas/holiday set and was part of one of their virtual events, but I thought it would work for this and not be a Christmas card.

The glass has a notch cut into it near the top and into that I inserted the two pieces of fruit and a couple of leaves. The fruits all come die cut as one piece – several pieces altogether – so I cut them apart and picked the pieces I wanted.

I wanted to add a brushed gold frame, so die cut one out – then decided I liked the look of the ‘off cut’ from the frame – the outside piece we generally throw away – it seemed more suitable as it wasn’t too thick – thank goodness I centred in on the panel in the first place! The proper frame will be used on another project….

The glass and foliage were arranged on the panel, then I used low tack tape to pick the whole thing up – added thinner 3D foam to the back, then stuck it all down in one go. I little glue to some areas laying on the top.

The foiled sentiment was added – three layers altogether o make it more stable, and then brushed gold gems added as you see.

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Just Add Ink – photo Inspiration

Love To Craft – anything goes

Lil Patch Of Crafty Friends – anything goes

Crafty Catz – anything goes – option to use a die taken

Creative Artiste – anything goes mixed media

Using Stencils

Hello again. Cardz 4 Galz has started a new challenge. I am hosting this time round, and have chosen the theme of:

Use Stencils

Here is my card:

I chose to keep this a fairly simple design, but I did do quite a bit of masking and changing colours on the same stencil layer.

There are three layers to this stencil set, and I wanted each of the flowers to be different colours.

Once the flowers were complete, I then used a small blending brush and some light brown ink and went round the edges of each of the compartments, hoping to create a muted and vintage look to each of the small backgrounds. I then used the same light brown ink to splatter, and also to stamp some of the Royal Mail detail. I think it is great that Waffle Flower Crafts recognises us over here – love that idea.

Once dry, this was then die cut using the postage collage die.

I hope you can come and join us with your creations using stencils. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Ally’s Angels – anything goes

Beautiful Blossoms – flowers/florals

A Perfect Time To Craft – anything goes

Ellibelle’s Corner – anything goes

Stencil Fun – use stencils – option of hello/winter not taken

Stencilled Bauble

Hello once again. The Alphabet Challenge has reached the letter ‘R’, and Veronika has chosen the theme of:

R is for Round

Here is my card:

I used the Bibi Cameron ‘Snowflakes Ornament’ stencil set from Spellbinders.

The stencils were used direct onto the card base, and Pinkfresh Studio inks. There are several layers to each stencil, for different parts of the bauble. There are actually two bauble sizes, and I chose to do the largest.

Once the bauble was stencilled, I then used the mask over it and splattered with silver sparkle acrylic paint, and then again with one of the blue inks used for the stencilling.

The sentiment is foiled using a Lawn Fawn hot foil set, then die cut with the matching die and attached with wet glue. I then added some clear gems for a little more interest.

I hope you can come and join us following our theme. I shall be entering the following challenges:

12 Months of Christmas Link Up – Christmas, option of stitched up not taken

Stencil Fun – use stencils, option of sparkle or shine taken

Everybody Art Challenge – blue tones

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge – anything goes, option of blue Christmas taken

Ally’s Angels – anything goes

Ellibelle’s Corner I Spy – something for Christmas

Thinking Of You

I had more time to use some new products from Altenew yesterday:

The image is a combination of an embossing folder and layering stencils to colour the image. I tried a couple of ways of doing this – stencilling first then embossing, but for this version I used the embossing folder first, then used the stencils to colour. I liked how the embossing enabled some colour variation within the leaves themselves.

The leaves were ink blended with pink, and the Pinkfresh Studio frame was die cut using a teal card stock. The panel and frame were layered onto a white card base, the foiled sentiment added, and three silver Pinkfresh Studio silver gems also added for a little bling.

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Color Hues – Pink and Aqua

Creative Fingers – anything goes

A Perfect Time To Craft – anything goes

CYHTP – embossing folder – option of winter fun not taken

Poinsettia Collage

Hello there. I have been playing with a collage stencil from Waffle Flower Crafts:

Following the colour choices for the current Color Throwdown Challenge, I made a couple of variations.

The first card, I used all the stencils, including the background for each tile. Using Pinkfresh Studio inks, I stencilled the background with a medium grey, then used the orange, red, and green on the next layers. I cut apart the collage tiles, and chose the images I wanted for the card.

The background panel was cut down and then dry embossed using a Spellbinders embossing folder. The images were then laid out and attached with 3D foam pieces, before adding the foiled sentiment. The final touches were some red pearls in the centre of the flowers.

For the second card, I didn’t use the background stencil, only the three layers for the leaves and the flowers, and I also used the same three colours of inks.

I die cut the background collage die several more times and layered them together with the stencilled piece, instead of using 3D foam pieces.

The white card base, a red panel showing around the edge and through the holes of the collage die, and glued together.

I added more of the red pearls – the centre of the flowers, the red berries on the holly, and a few more for good luck……

Personally, I think I prefer the stencilling without the grey background – but that may be the colour choices I made. I will play around with colours a little more – loving the collage stencils – and perhaps post some more variations.

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Color Throwdown – orange, moss, cranberry

Beautiful Blossoms – florals

Addicted To Stamps – die cuts and stencils

Creative Fingers – anything goes

Polkadoodle – anything goes

Aud Sentiments – glitter and/or Christmas and a sentiment

Christmas (or not) Bingo – column O – stencilling, free, pearls

Love To Craft – anything goes

Merry Little Christmas Challenge – anything goes Christmas

Season’s Greetings

Hello once again. I have had a little play with some new layering stencils from The Greetery:

This was actually quite fiddly to do as I wanted different colours on the same stencil layer. It did take me quite a while for each layer, and the very small blending brushes did come in handy for all those smaller places. I used some low tack tape to mask areas off which were near to each other, but generally had fun with the colours.

I used Pinkfresh Studio inks, as they come in four shades of each colour-way – which also made things a little easier.

The sentiment is from Concord & 9th. It is a sentiment which is joined together, and instead of cutting the stamp apart, I used tape to mask off each of the words at a time, to stamp in the spaces. I really had to concentrate to remove the tape before stamping – a mistake I have made on previous cards – and one you don’t really forget!

I then cut the panel down slightly, matted it with a red card stock, then added to a white card base.

No additional elements, no bling, no gems – I think this looks good just as it is.

I shall be entering the following challenges:

12 Months Of Christmas – anything goes Christmas, option to use chevrons not taken

Peace On Earth – Christmas anything goes

Inkspirational – seasonal

Lil Patch Of Crafty Friends – anything goes

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge – stencil it

Crafty Catz – anything goes – option to use dies/punches not taken

Ally’s Angels – anything goes