Celebration: Stencil Techniques

 

Celebration:  Stencil Techniques

Let's Celebrate!  Every day is the perfect day to celebrate, but that is not why we are here today, right!  So the fabulous Laurel Beard led this cool class on stenciling.  I love stenciling!  So many fun techniques!  Which technique do you prefer?  Layering stencils, using stencils to dry emboss, stamping with stencils, creating texture with stencils...I could go on and on, but lucky for you, I won't!   Today I am sharing two cards with two different techniques using stencils.  The first card entailed stenciling with modeling paste otherwise known as embossing paste and/or texture paste, they are all basically the same thing.  The stencil used is the Leaf Bed stencil by Altenew.  I wanted to add a little bit of color to my modeling paste, so I smooshed some Greenfield Crisp Dye ink onto my craft mat and mixed it in with the modeling paste to give it this beautiful green color.  


I used a palette knife to spread my green modeling paste over the stencil, being careful not to get any of the paste under the stencil.  I set my panel aside to dry while I worked on the other elements of my card.  To go along with the leaf theme, I die cut one of the leaf stems from the Leaf Cluster stamp and die set and stamped using Grassfield Crisp Dye ink and thumped on some darker green marker to give the stem a two toned look.  Thumping is just tapping the marker onto the inked stamp and then stamping on your cardstock.  Super easy and adds some interest.  
My sentiment is from Dotted Blooms stamp set.  

Once my card panel was dry, I assembled my card and attached to an A2 size card base.  


The second technique is using the stencil to bring texture to your panel.  I dry embossed the Sketched Lines stencil by Altenew for this card, such a great technique to take your card to the next level just using your stencil in a different way!  Who doesn't love that!  More bang for your buck(s).  To dry emboss using your stencils, you will need a silicone mat and acrylic plate that goes with your die cutting machine.  I purchased mine separately, but some machines come with the mat and plate.  The sandwich may differ as well, but for mine, I laid the stencil down on an acrylic plate, then my cardstock, silicone mat and acrylic plate...just run in through and there you have it!  
A fabulously textured panel!  

My next step was to blend some ink on the textured panel.  I lightly blended Amethyst Crisp Dye Ink in the center of the panel to bring the eye to the center where my stamped image would go.  I heat embossed the Dotted Blooms image and watercolored the blooms using Pale Mauve, Amethyst, Grape Agape and Plum Crisp Dye inks.  I fussy cut the branch out once my inks were dry.  Using the leftover inks (watercolors) I splattered some ink on my textured panel and put everything together.


In this picture you can better see the texture from my stencil.  Fabulous, right!?


I hope you enjoyed these two techniques on using your stencils in other ways and I hope you will give it a try and remember...it's just paper!

Lori





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  1. MelanieSeptember 13, 2021 at 12:23 PM

    Lovely cards. I love the green colour of the first one.

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    1. LoriSeptember 13, 2021 at 1:50 PM

      Thank you so much!!! It came out so pretty...grassfield mixed into the modeling paste...love it! : )

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  2. Erum TasneemSeptember 22, 2021 at 2:43 PM

    Lovely!! Thank you so much for submitting your work to the AECP assignment gallery.

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