Stenciled Happy Anniversary

Afternoon All,

What miserable weather we have had again today so we have been stuck indoors. Still, they have been very good playing with their Sylvanians. It is such fun to sit and listen to the three of them role playing with all these little creatures. They also helped me get some washing on and sort the dishwasher so they earned some Youtube.

I have managed to update the blog with a list of the first few class dates, so here are a couple more cards made using stencils.

Once again I used my Wendy Vecchi Make Art Stay-tion to hold the stencil in place while I blended the ink through it onto the paper.

I then added a little sparkle with some glitter glue blended with a piece of Cut n Dry felt.

I layered the stenciled panel on to some dry embossed card stock.

Another lovely stencil and some blended inks.

Blending brushes, or stencil brushes are great for giving a lovely soft blended finish to the inks.

I die cut 'Happy Anniversary' from the stenciled panel and then stacked it onto several layers of black card stock before adding it back into the panel. 

I finished it off with some clear sparkle pen and a layer of glossy accents.

Need to go and rest my arm now, and take a couple more pain killers. Thanks for stopping by.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend. I hope that you are having better weather than us. 

Hugs Kimx

Nothing But Neutrals

Hi All,

An old blogging buddy of mine popped up on my Facebook feed yesterday with her first challenge for 2021, so I decided that entering it would be the perfect way to start off the New Year.

The challenge blog is called The Rainbow Card Challenge Blog and their colour challenge for this month is Nothing but Neutrals.

Now I haven't exactly been crafty over the last few weeks due this blasted virus, so I had a look through my photos to see if I could find a card from my stash that might fit the bill, and this is what I found.

I stamped and embossed Jane's fabulous JGS329 Single teasels on to a piece of cream cardstock and then added some distress inks with a blending tool. 

Next I added some background stamping again using Distress inks.

Finally I ran the entire piece through my embossing machine with a Bubbles stencil (they call them masks) from Dutch Doobadoo. If you use an embossing mat underneath the stencil you get a nice embossed pattern in the card stock just as if you had used an embossing folder

With the stencil still in place I added some smoky grey ink and then some Imagination Sparkle Medium using a piece of cut'n dry felt. You only need a small amount of the Sparkle Medium on the felt pad but by using a circular motion over the stencil you burnish the medium in to the paper to give a foiled appearance, which of course looks much better in the flesh than the photos lol.

The sentiment is a favorite old one from Hobby Art.

I hope that this is neutral enough for Mynette's challenge at The Rainbow Card Challenge.

Thanks for stopping by. I'm off for a granny nap I think, covid really does take it out of you.

Hugs Kimx

Three of a Kind

Evening Everyone,

Just to prove that I do own stamps designed by someone other than Jane Gill here are a trio of cards using stamps designed by Francoise Read, also for Woodware.

 I stamped and embossed this beautiful floral vase onto a piece of black card that reacts with bleach.

I used a texture stamp and thin undiluted bleach on a piece of Cut'nDry Felt to stamp all over the image, and then painted parts of the image with the bleach.

This is another of Francoise stamps used on a piece of background created using Distress Oxide inks.

Once again I painted parts of the image with thin undiluted bleach and added a small sentiment.

I've used the same image stamped and embossed onto blue card stock. I made sure that the card would react to the bleach before I stamped on it.

Not all cardstock will react and change when the bleach is applied so I test a small patch in the corner, even applying a little bit of heat from my heat gun to intensify the results.

I painted the image and also stamped on to the piece of background card before layering the panel on to it. I added Glossy Accents to the flower centers and hearts and then a few tiny assorted nailheads.
I have to say that bleach is probably among my favourite techniques.
Hope you have a good day. The weather has been glorious here again.
Thanks for stopping by.
Stay safe and craft.
Hugs Kimx