Stenciling with Elephants

Hi lovely friends, it’s Wanda Guess. Today I have a fun card using the cute Elephant Friends stamp set, along with many other PPP products.

Tape the stencil down over your paper using Purple Tape or some other temporary tape. Begin by stenciling the Leaves stencil using a small sponge dauber and Twisted Citron Distress Ink. Tap the ink down with the dauber, making sure to saturate the open areas of the stencil with color. Go back with a darker color (Mowed Lawn) Distress Ink and place color just at the base of each leaf stem, giving dimension and shading to your stenciled images.

Die cut three leaves using the Small Stitched Foliage Dies. Color the leaves using the same shades of Distress Inks to match your stenciling. Add white accents with a gel pen. 

Stamp the Elephant Friends and die cut with the coordinating dies. Color the images with gray and pink Copic Markers. Add white accents with a gel pen.

Die cut two stitched circles, one for the focal layer of the card, and one for the sentiment. Stamp the sentiment onto the smaller circle die cut.

To assemble the card, use a cool gray A2 sized card base. Layer gingham or other gray patterned paper onto the grey base. Attach your stenciled layer next. Using foam tape, attach the larger of the two circles to the center point of the card.

Layer the die cut leaves around the large circle and then attach the elephants using foam tape. Attach the sentiment circle to finish the card.

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you were inspired.