Hello and welcome. This week at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown, Rosi has challenged us to use a stencil. I had lots of fun with this challenge, and ended up making several backgrounds trying out different techniques, but the card I ended making shows two ways to use a stencil…
I started by swiping faded jeans distress oxide ink pad all over the stencil, then spritzed with water before placing a piece of watercolour card overtop and pressing it down onto the stencil. As the oxide ink reacts with water, this gave a pretty, mottled effect, with changes in colour here and there.
When this was dry, I replaced the stencil over the inked background and used a spatula to spread some of my homemade texture paste through the stencil to the card here and there. While the paste was still wet, I sprinkled it with dazzling diamonds glitter – I just love the sparkle. Once the panel was completely dry, I adhered this to the centre of a 6″ square deckle edged base card.
I stamped the sentiment and some snowflakes from the Jolly and Merry stamp set by Mama Elephant onto a die cut circle of whisper white card using the same oxide distress ink, and popped this up on foam tape. The cute little penguin from the Penguins go skating set was stamped in black ink and coloured with my stampin write marker pens in basic black, basic grey, smoky slate and bashful blue, with a little daffodil delight for his beak, die cut with the matching die set and then added to the card. Finally, I added a sprinkling of silver half back pearls.
I hope you’ve been inspired to join the challenge this week – we’d love to see what you make.
Enjoy your weekend
Lily-by-Gilly 