Creating Your Own “Stencil”

It’s Suzy here today with another card using the new stamp and die sets. I can’t wait to share this one with you as it is my favorite from the cards I have made with the new products. Today’s card highlights the Sea Friends stamp set.

TIP: I tried a new technique for this card. I die cut several size circles out of white scratch paper. I then used them to create stencils, or areas that would be shown on the card so I could stamp inside of them blocking the outside areas. I placed each circle opening on my card base and then stamped the sea friends inside of the circles overlapping the outside of the scrap paper. I used light color inks in the color of each sea animal so they would have no lines around them. I always prefer the look of no line coloring.

Next I colored all the images in with Copic markers and then outlined them with glitter gel pens. I colored in the background of each circle with blue Copics. I outlined the circles with a blue glitter gen pen in little dots.

Once the circles were done, I stamped the sentiment Hello from the Blissful Butterflies stamp set with blue ink. Then I die-cut it with the Blissful Butterflies die set. I placed that on the bottom of the card. I added some of the Sparkling Clear Confetti Sequin Mix to mimic bubbles in sets of three. I finished the card with some twine along the left side.

This card is a little different for me. I love doing random stamping and I felt this was a new approach to it by stamping PART of the background randomly, but not all of it. I want to try it with other sets and in other shapes using some of the PPP dies to block the background.

Thanks for visiting today and I hope you enjoyed my card!

Suzy