Celebrations: Stencil Techniques

Hello my crafty friends!

Today I’m sharing a card I did for the Celebration: Stencil Techniques class for Altenew’s Educator Certification Program.  My inspiration for this card was Altenew’s Classy Stripes Stencil.  I love this stencil!  You can easily change the feel of a card or a scrapbook page with this one stencil. Vertical bars, depending on the colour and saturation, can have a wide range of mood effect from light and fun to dark and dramatic and anything in between.  Using this stencil, I was able to create an adorable country themed encouragement card.  

I started this card by cutting my cardstock a little larger than the 6 x 5 7/8” stencil.   I did this so I could have something to anchor the stencil to.   I use a light (temporary) adhesive spray to cover one side of the stencil.  I followed the directions on the spray adhesive container for setting time.  I use adhesive spray instead of tape to decrease the possibility of the stencil lifting when I’m inking.  WARNING: Read the directions for use and use spray adhesives in WELL VENTILATED areas.

  

After I am done inking, I place the stencil in light soapy water to clean it.  I placed the stencil on to my #65 white card stock piece (tacky side to cardstock). I used Altenew’s Maple Yellow mini ink cube and a blending tool and started at one end of the cardstock with very light pressure applying a light covering of ink.  As I progressed toward the middle, I used heavier pressure to lay down more colour.  Moving away from the middle of the card (toward the opposite end), I used very light pressure again creating the gradient look.  I rotated the stencil 90 degrees and repeated the same process.   I cut the inked cardstock down so that the most concentrated area of ink was the focal point of the background.  For the flowers I used Altenew’s Daisy Stamp Set.  This is one of the mini layering stamp sets.  There are 3 layers for both the main image and the leaf.   I stamped the Daisies using the Warm Gray Mini Cube Set.  From the Warm Gray set, I omitted the Lava Rock to keep the Daisies light.  and I used the Green Valley Mini Cube Set to stamp the leaves. I left out the Firefly mini cube.  There is no die for the (mini) Daisy stamp set, so I cut them out using my Brother Scan N Cut.  You can also cut them the images out manually.  The sentiment is from the Bamboo Rose Stamp Set.  I used my Misti Stamp Tool and the Evening Gray ink cube to stamp the sentiment several times.  After I arranged the Daisies and leaves, I trimmed the sentiment and adhered them all down with small pieces of double-sided tape.   I added some Fun Foam to the back of the finished card front and mounted that on to an A2 sized side fold card base. 

For more information on Altenew products, classes, and inspiration click HERE. 

Altenew Products: 

Classy Stripes Stencil 

Daisy Stamp Set 

Warm Gray Mini Cube Set 

Green Valley Mini Cube Set 

Pocket Full of Sunshine Mini Cube Set 

Bamboo Rose Stamp Set 

Joyce

The 25 Days of Christmas Tags 2019- Day 21

4 days left

Okay, I’m doing a count down since we are sliding-on-into-home on the 25 Days of Christmas Tags.  Click here for information on The 25 Days of Christmas Tags, hosted by Tracey McNeely.   The sponsor for today is LAWN FAWN-yeah!   My inspiration came from Lindsey, who is on the Lawn Fawn design team.  I was inspired to do a little animal tag.  Click on Lindsey's name to see her tag. 

The items I used to create my tag are as follows: Recollections (Michael’s brand) white cardstock, Bo Bunny 6x6 paper pad Yule Tide Carol Collection (2018), Crate Paper’s SNOW and COCOA stamp set, Hero Arts Poly Clear Holiday Messages and Frames, Avery Elle Double Stitched Rectangles, Tonic Studios Essentials Mixed Edge Diamond Layering Basic Die Set, Copic Markers (W1, W00, Colourless Blender), and some 1/8” Satin Ivory Ribbon.  I stamped the image using Gina K’s Amalgam ink.  I cut the image out using my Brother Scan-N-Cut.  I popped the sentiment up with some foam tape.  

Joyce

Black and White Masculine Gift Card

Good Evening Everyone,

I have been quite busy in the craft room and tonight I want to share a gift card holder that I am did for a craft group swap I have tomorrow. I did a couple versions of this gift card holder not too long ago. I used the tutorial by Ginger from My Sisters Scrapper, you can find it here. This time I did a masculine version. It was really pretty easy to put together-only 2 colors of cardstock (CS) and 1 color ink! I just love how they turned out. To make this gift card holder I used Michael’s Recollections brand Black and White CS (65#), Stampin’ UP! (SU) 5/8” black satin ribbon (retired), and SU Stamp set called “One Wild Ride” (retired). I made the tag using a Graphic 45 tag and my Brother Scan N Cut (BSNC). The Graphic 45 large tags only come in ivory, black, and kraft and I needed white! Soooo, I scanned the tag image into my BSNC and now I can cut the tag shape out in any color I want. I can even add the large eyelet (1/2”) if I want (I did not for this project). I also used my BSNC to make the borders around each of the die cuts.  The Harley-Davidson sign is a prop I made on my Cricut Maker. Lawdy, I love, love, love my machines!!!  I had to make 10 gift card holders for the swap (no gift cards added). Here are a few pictures of the finished masculine gift card holders. Until next time, happy craftin’.

The way the light is shining on the cardstock, it looks as if I used 2 different blacks.  In person the color is correct.

I am going to enter my gift card holder in the following challenges: 
Creative Fingers Challenge Blog, #173 Anything Goes
Crafting with an Attitude, #56 Anything Goes
Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog, #478 Gift Packaging or Tags
Southern Girls Challenge, Anything Goes

Joyce