Stencil Saturday, pass the cake!

Good Morning!

Stencil Saturday then...

I used one of the Circus stencils desighned by Leonie Pujol.

I placed a post it note on my card then sprayed Oxides through the stencil.

Sprayed a bit more on some spare card so I could stamp and cut out the cupcake layers (club stamp). And a little strip for the words from Leonie's Whatever stamp set.

A few little splashes and some sequins to finish off!

Oh and I glazed the cherry.

Hope you like, thanks for popping in, I appreciate it.

Off up a motorway to play with alcohol inks now.

Maria x

Stencil Saturday in a rush

Mornng! Actually feels like more like middle of the night, but hey ho.

I have to blog mega fast, .so I can get out the door and on the motorway, so here is one of my cards using the new Circus stencils,and Whatever text stamps, you can find them over on the Claritystamp website.

Ok, gotta run!

Maria x

Stencil Saturday double bill.

Good Morning!

Early start for me, have to be up and out of my hotel by 6.30 to get back to Hochanda for 7am.

Groovi one day special shows are at 9am, 1pm and 5pm.

So I better show you some stencilly fun quickly...

This was piece number one, I utilised a piece of card I had die cut a picot oval from, I stencilled Leonie's cool Arrow stencil down the side just using Artistry ink pads, and then added some splashes. Then I stencilled the Natural Beauty stencil on another piece of card so the ladies face peeped through the oval aperture.

Then there was the matter of cleaning the inky stencil...

Well I don't do cleaning if I can help it, so I just spritzed the stencil with water and rubbed it on another piece of card, how nice is that!

That's it for today, thanks for popping in, see you tomorrow for Speed Craft Sunday?

Maria x

Stencil Saturday, Pan Pastel

Hello, thanks for popping in!

I thought id show you a stencil project using the new stencils that Barbara demonstrated on Hochanda on Thursday.

Just so you know, the little white dots are actually a reflection of the lcd lights on my light tent, No matter what I tried I couldnt get a pic without them because of the acetate on the card.

I started by applying Pan Pastel to my cover my card, then I smeared Versamark on the stencil, lay it on the card and run through a die cutting machine, then rub the pastel sponge over the card again to bring out the line art.

Colour can then be removed with an eraser to give light and shade.

I then stamped a couple of Wee Folk and some birds on acetate, when the ink is dry the acetate can be wrapped around the card and secured at the back.

Ok, that's all for today, have a great Saturday!

Maria x

Stencil Saturday, a bit of graffiti...

Evening!

Busy day, but I wanted to something with stencils as its Saturday, and I spotted the new challenge over at Country View Challenges, the theme is Letters and/or Numbers.

I managed to work 3 stencils into this one.

I started by blending some yellow ink through the Harlequin stencil, I then bumped it along and added a little orange ink.

Then I roughly rubbed black ink over the new Arty Arrows stencil, sprayed with water and pressed it over the card.

Now for a very very cool stencil, ABC stencil, and some texture paste, you need to do one letter at a tie if you are making up a word, the good news is this paste can be dried with a heat gun in about a minute, I don't do waiting!

When its dry, brush over with black ink, I didn't particularly want the letters black, but a hazy shadow around the letters.

I then sanded the letters back a bit, decide to keep some of the black, and added red ink through the stencil. A little touch of white pen around the letters.

A few red splashes and edge with black sharpie pen to finish off and then bang it on a card!

OK, i'm happy that's done, i can go cook some tea now, thanks for popping in, and don't forget to pop over and have a look at the challenge, you have a whole month to enter.

Maria x

Stencil Saturday, with a bit of velum.

Good Morning!

Its getting to be quite regular this blogging malarky isn't it.

Saturday then, stencils...

And I spotted a challenge over at CAS on Friday blog using velum on your card, so I thought Id have a go at that too.

Dark pictures again! and the cards are quite nice too.

I used a plate to cut the shape into my cards, i couldn't decide which way i wanted the curve so i did both.

I also cut a copy paper mask too, lay it over the inside of the card and stencilled with purple ink. The stencil is a Clarity New Design Club stencil.

I found a few butterflies cut from velum, added purple ink to the back layer.

I brushed purple in to the front of the card, darker from the curve, getting lighter.

The second example, I also added a velum overlay to mute the stencilling a bit.

 I used Vine Leaf strip stencil for this one.

That's it for today, have a great day.

Maria x

Stencil Saturday, Powdered inks challenge

Hello, thanks for joining me!

I spotted the latest challenge over on CAS Stencil Challenge blog, the theme this time is powdered inks, and it always involves a stencil, right up my street!

So i had a flip through my Clarity stencils, and decided to use a New Design Club stencil from about a year ago, ish?

And i thought my Infusions would be good, especially as iv'e left my brusho and colour bursts at work, also i have a single random sparkle powder so i threw a bit of that in too.

I used a little piece of watercolour card, i bought two little pads of it really cheap when  was at Event City craft show with my mate Jane Telford last week.

I just lay my stencil over the card, sprayed with water and sprinkled with the powders.

I got a very cool mop up piece too, thats gone in THE pile, you know the pile i mean dont you lol.

The colours on this are actually really lovely but the picture is a bit rubbish, especially when you consider i bought a mini light tent...Maybe the camera on my ipad is the problem, maybe i need to get a decent camera instead?

The A5 carb blank is a nice bottle green, not black.

Shame the metallic from the shimmer powder doesnt show up on the picture, but hey ho!

The challenge lasts for a month and you can enter a couple of times too.

Im off to write this card out now, i know exactly who it is for, i think she will like it.

Enjoy your saturday folks, hopefully see you tomorrow for another Speed Craft Sunday, time permitting.

Maria xx