Stencil Theme Week- Day 5

Hi friends, Eloise here and welcome back to Stencils Theme Week. Today I’m using the Christmas Background Stencil as well as Whimsical Christmas Stencil for my cards today.

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I’ll be dry embossing and colour blocking for my technique with these stencils today.

I started off with two pieces of watercolour cardstock, laid down my stencils over the top and masked off sections to create my stripes and rectangles. I then used various Distress Ink colours to ink blend inside each of them.

Distress Inks Used: Mustard Seed / Fossilized Amber / Mowed Lawn / Pine Needles /  Scattered Straw / Antique Linen / Gathered Twigs / Ground Espresso / Festive Berries / Barn Door / Tumbled Glass / Blueprint Sketch

Once all the stripes were ink blended as well as the rectangles, I cleaned off the stencils and dry embossed with them. I used some rubber mats to make this happen. Now on the white areas you have this raised look and it gives so much more detail to the simple design.

I then white heat embossed the ‘Wishing You A Blessed Holiday Season’ onto some thin black strips of cardstock from the Joy Stamp Set and adhered it onto my card. I added some hemp cord to add a bow to the right hand side of the strips. Lastly I scattered some Celebration Confetti Mix onto the background and adhered them down with glossy accents.

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I’ll see you all next time.

Eloise