Today was a very busy day with babysitting grandsons and attending a bridal shower, but I got to spend some time in my stamp room this afternoon and decided to work with stencils, as I’ve been seeing a lot of them used on backgrounds lately! The first stenciled layer on this card was done with a beautiful Tim Holtz stencil Gothic, using Broken China and Wilted Violet distress oxides and water. I found the image of a woman on Pinterest, printed it out and made my own stencil with it, and layered that on next, sponging around it with Iced Spruce distress oxide ink. I then laid a scripty stencil over her and sponged on more ink for added interest. Black Soot oxide softened the edges of my panel. I had this colored floral image (Charmed by Altenew) already in my stash and stamped a script stamp over the flowers, then softened the cut edges with Black Soot distress oxide. I cut it apart in order to layer it with pieces of foam tape. The last step was to heat-emboss in black the sentiment from Altenew’s Label Love, one of my favorite sentiment sets! A base card of lavender completes my card!
I absolutely love Charmed by Altenew!! I love the squiggly lines that make up the image and I love to paint inside of them! This card began with an alcohol print I’d made by pressing the back of a piece of Kirkland photo paper onto my ink-saturated surface! I think it makes a beautiful background for this card; after stamping the image and a script stamp several times onto the paper with Versafine Onyx Black permanent ink, I set it aside to color my Scan N Cut image using Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers. After trimming the print down and adhering it to a layer of aqua card stock, I mounted the flowers with pieces of foam tape for lift. I then die-cut the black leaf sprigs and tucked them beneath the blossoms. The last step was to attach the card to a black card base and photograph!! Hahaha! I just noticed what appears to be finger prints in the lower left hand corner!! How’s that for the “personal touch”??!! 😀
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