Here I am again with my second project for the Country View Crafts and Challenges 'Stencil Magic' theme challenge, for this month.
There's still time to enter the challenge and win a fabulous prize for this month which is a set of Tim Holtz newly released Distress Spritz Sprays, 12 in total.
The Challenge is open until the end of this month and you can find it on here: https://www.facebook.
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You have until the end of the month to join in and can enter up to 5 times
with different makes using products and brands that are stocked by
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Sooo, in the spirit of the Stencil Magic theme, I used all stencils for my make apart from the embellishments.
First, in my Tim Holtz Splat Box, I sprayed the Visible Image Mesh It Up Stencil onto card, using Distress Spray Stains, Rustic Wilderness, Tumbled Glass and Squeezed Lemonade.I spritzed a little water too to make it spread. In my sample picture here, that's the one that's showing predominantly the green colour. I then turned the stencil face down (the side that had been sprayed through and still had spray on it) onto another piece of card and then sprayed through it with the Tumbled Glass to bring some blue into it.
So, I created 2 backgrounds with differing main colours and the way the stencil had been used. Then I had to decide which one I was going to use.
I decided to go with the blue tones one, and added a little stencilled alphabet from the Tim Holtz Mini Set THMS001, using Rustic Wilderness Distress Paint as the colour. I only added it to the two opposite corners.
Then onto my main image. Using the Visible Image Daisy Stencil, first I lightly drew a pencil line inside a couple of the petals on the backing card, so I would be able to line it up afterwards.
In my trusty Splat box, I just sprayed some Distress Spray Stain Squeezed Lemonade and Wild Honey into the centre of the stencil. I had to do this a few times until I was happy with the centre, as the first time it totally bled under the stencil, and the second time it spread too far. I wanted to keep the Daisy mostly the white colouring.
Once dry, I placed the stencil back onto the card and lined up with the pencil marks. I taped this down with repositionable tape in a couple of places, and then drew around the inside of each petal and the centre part, with a black fine Uniball pen as I wanted the petals to be separate and stand out. I then cut around all the black outlines to get my Daisy focal image.
I cut my main card to almost 6x6 inch, and then the background to fit on, a little smaller than the main card, to leave an edge. I also edged the stencilled background with Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Rustic Wilderness.
I decided I wanted some text and an embellishment, so I used a pretty butterfly with coordinating colours from the Tim Holtz Ideaology Transparent Wings set.
I picked a sentiment from Tim Holtz Ideaology Smalltalk Sticker Book and layered this onto black card and then for both the butterly and sentiment I used some black double sided foam to raise them up. And here's my finished card....
I hope you like it. I had fun coming up with the idea for this and putting it all together and it shows that you can use stencils as focal images too, as well as backgrounds.
I hope this has inspired you to try it out and don't forget to enter the challenge on Facebook if you'd like to win the new Tim Holtz Distress Spritz Sprays. You have until the end of July to enter.
Thanks for taking the time to read my blog.
Have a fab day
Hugs
Carol
Products can be found here:
Visible Image Daisy stencil
Visible Image Mesh it up stencil
Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stains
Tim Holtz Stencil (THMS001)
Tim Holtz Distress Paint Rustic Wilderness
Tim Holtz Ideaology Transparent Wings
https://www.countryviewcrafts.
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Rustic Wilderness
Tim Holtz Ideaology Smalltalk Sticker Book
