The masked leaves allow you to create an overlap on your stamping, without disturbing the integrity of your stamped images.
After stamping all my images, I went in with the stencil and my Catherine Pooler Inks. I ink blended all the images with my blender brushes but kept my inking very minimal on the flowers and butterfly, as I wanted to go in and add more depth of color by watercoloring. This is achieved by pressing your ink pad on a craft mat and spritzing with a little water. Then, simply grab the mixture with a water brush and just start painting!
I love that there is only one stencil, with all the images cut out on it. I think the cut images are spaced out nicely, however, if you have large blender brushes, you may want to consider using tape to cover the surrounding cut-outs, so you don't muddy up space on your card because your brush was too big.
My next step was to add more splatters, so I grabbed my Ranger Black Marble shimmer spray, unscrewing the bottle and tapping the feeder tube to get droplets on my panel.
I also used the Spellbinders Splatter White for paint splatters. A tiny bit of this was mixed with water. Next, I flicked the mixture off the edge of an acrylic block using a paint brush.
I used a really pretty sage green paper from the Scrapbook.com 6x8 inch Peppermin Solid Paper Pad. I love the subtle effect of color from the paper, in my background.
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What a beautiful card. Receiving that card would make me happily smile.
ReplyDeleteI'm so happy you like it!
DeleteWhat a wonderful story and beautiful card!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Cathy!
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