Stencil Theme Week: Day 4
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Hello Everyone! Welcome to Day 4 of Stencil Theme week! It is Zsofi here today with a delicate design for Mother’s Day, but if you change up the sentiment it can fit any occasions. Let me show you how you can achieve a layered look with one single stencil.
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For today’s technique I chose the Peonies stencil as it has a few flowers and leaves all in one. To lift it to the next level, I used woodgrain cardstock as the base, so it will have a texture after applying the colours. Before starting the stenciling, I created some masks for the flowers: I simply stencilled them with any ink on masking paper and cut around the edges with my scissors. I usually keep these masks together with my stencils for future cards as they can be reused many times.
For the first card I used Pink Raspberry and Worn Lipstick Distress Oxide inks for the peonies and Rustic Wilderness for the leaves. I wanted a vertical design and used only the 3 big flowers, masking each after applying the colour. I started with the one in the middle, inkblended the stencil then removed it, covered the flower with the mask, placed the stencil back and added the second flower and so on. When all 3 were covered, I used the leaves parts of the stencil to add the greenery.
For the second card I went with a horizontal layout, used the 3 big flowers the same way as above just with Milled Lavender and Dusty Concord Distress Oxide ink. I also added the little buds to the corners. For the leaves I blended in Pine Needles Distress Oxide ink. The best part of this masked stencil technique is when you remove the masks to reveal your flower arrangements. So pretty!
I cut both panels down to be a bit smaller than an A2 sized card front and gave them a dark green mat. For the sentiment, I used the Mother’s Day Script die and cut it from gold metallic cardstock. I used liquid glue with a precision tip to adhere them on the card fronts.
As a finishing touch I went over the dots of the flower centres with a black glaze pen, it makes them shiny and slightly 3D.
I hope you liked this card idea and got inspired. Thanks for stopping by and hope to see you soon, Zsofi