Another Stenciled Card!

Oh my goodness, I was so inspired by the Stenciled class from Online Card Classes!  I have another card to share based on a technique I learned from the class.

 

I cased the card Jennifer McGuire did.  I didn't have the butterfly stencil she used, but I was browsing around in Hobby Lobby the other day and found a stencil with two butterflies on it for $2.99.  Score!  So here's the technique.  Apply various inks through the stencil lightly.  I used Hero Arts inks, but Distress Inks work really well also.  Then I placed another stencil (I used the Large Lotus Flower stencil from Hero Arts) with some design to it right on top of the butterfly opening.  I applied the same inks in the same places using a heavier hand.  When you remove the stencils, this is what you end up with.  Very cool technique!  The thank you die was cut several times from turquoise, pink and white card stock and glued together to make it more dimensional.  I added some Wink of Stella shimmer and glossy accents for some shine.  The butterfly didn't look finished until I added the pearls to its body.  (I need a new camera.  My pictures just aren't doing it for me anymore!)

 

That's it!  Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps: None!

Paper:  Neenah white, regal rose, tempting turquoise

Ink:  Butter bar, fresh peach, pale tomato, bubble gum, tide pool (Hero Arts)

Accessories:  Butterfly stencil (Hobby Lobby), large lotus flower stencil (Hero Arts), Wonder Words: Thank You die (PTI), Wink of Stella shimmer brush, glossy accents, pearls

 

Cure for the Monday Blues #2

Hi everyone!  I was home yesterday because of a snow day.  I'm hoping I'm not home today (I wrote this yesterday).  We don't need anymore snow days, even though I love snow days, because they are starting to take them away from our vacations!

 

Anyway, I came across this new challenge called Cure for the Monday Blues and thought I'd give it a go.  This is their inspiration photo.  See the wall hanging beside the bed with the deer and sun rays?  That was my inspiration.

 

Since I took the Stenciled class from Online Card Classes, I pulled out my stencil and embossing paste.  In the class, they demonstrate coloring the embossing paste, so that's what I did here.  I used one small drop of Groovy Guava reinker to the paste and mixed it in.  It was the exact color I was looking for to match the inspiration photo.  The butterflies were cut from a die and decorative paper.  The cute deer is a rubber stamp from Paper Makeup Stamps called Felicity the Fawn which is only available in digital form now.  It had a flower in its mouth, but I cut it off and added a small butterfly on its nose.  I stamped it on some gray decorative paper from a SU pad and fussy cut it out.  I took a Signo white gel pen and colored in the spots and flowers on its back, the dot on its cheek, and its eyes.  Wink of Stella shimmer brush was used on the butterflies for some shine.  I had enough of this colored embossing paste to make another background so you'll be seeing it used sometime soon here on the blog!

 

 If you haven't taken any of these classes, I would highly recommend them.  The tutorials are wonderful and you have access to them for life.  I refer to them often.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Felicity the Fawn (PMS)

Paper:  Neenah white, blush blossom, Porcelain dp (BG)

Ink:  Versafine onyx black, groovy guava reinker

Accessories:  Shine stencil (Memory Box), Butterfly Delights die (Memory Box), signo white gel pen, Wink of Stella shimmer brush, embossing paste

Merry Monday and Mojo Monday

Happy Snow Day (again!)!  I didn't really want this snow day.  We are over our days and now they are taking from other vacation days.  This one will probably take away our Friday before Memorial Day, which is the day I go shopping at the local nurseries for my flowers.  But it was only 1 degree this morning and the wind chill was -25 degrees, so it was necessary.  So since I was home, I went to my craft room.  I made two cards, but I'll share one today and one tomorrow.

This one I love!  I love the Merry Monday Challenges and really want to play along more often to get some cards done.  This week their challenge is to use ornaments.  I've have these tag dies from MFT for a while and I purchased them because they look like ornaments to me.  I die cut them out of decorative paper and then just the tops from foil tape paper for the top of the ornament.  Love it! 

 

I'm also playing along with the Mojo Monday challenge.  They've changed up their round or square challenge (I don't like making round cards!) to tall and skinny!  This I like!  My card is 3.5" x 5.5" so it still fits into an A-2 envelope (but who cares if you have an envelope maker, right?), but it's so cute being so skinny!

 

Thanks for stopping in today!  Hopefully I'll be at work tomorrow!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Take a Bough (PTI)

Paper:  Neenah white, North Pole (Doodlebug), foil tape sheets (Ranger)

Ink:  Versafine onyx black

Accessories:  Decorative circle tag stax (MFT), enamel dots (Teresa Collins), washi tape, baker's twine