Video: Get Creative With Your Stencils
Posted by Dana Joy on July 10, 2023

Video: Get Creative With Your Stencils

Morning everyone. It's Dana here with you today. Let's get creative with your stencils. You can easily make several cards with only one stenciled card panel. Let's get into the cardmaking.

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To start, I trimmed down a piece of Sand  cardstock to 6" x 6". Next it's time to stencil. The new  Color Layering Watermelon Stencils make fun summery cards. I start with Layer A stencil and blended with  Kiwi Ink. Layer B is blended with Cotton Candy and Azalea inks. And Layer C is blended with Pine ink. All the inks were blended using Large Blending Brushes.

For a bit of shimmer on the watermelons, I sprayed on White Iridescent Shimmer Mist through the last stencil before I removed it. This just adds such a cool color shift to the inks. Now it was time to trim down this panel. By trimming out the design into a regular 4.25" x 5.5" panel, I had just enough left to make a watermelon strip for another card.

For the background of my first card, I pulled out some  Spring Green and Gold Two-Tone Metallic Spray to use for a pop of color on Dove White  cardstock. This made the perfect background for my watermelon strip. By backing the watermelon strip with Pitch Black  cardstock, it really made it stand out on my mixed media background.

The sentiment I used for the card is from the  Lemonade Day stamp. By pulling in the sentiment stamped in Intens-ified Black  ink and adding a few  Neutral Enamel Dots  it helps the color scheme really work. Finally to finish off the first card, I used Dove White  cardstock for a card base and Sand  cardstock for a layering base for my colorful panel.

Card number two was created by trimming out a middle section of the watermelon panel and leaving just enough room for a sentiment to be placed between the two panels. I stamped the happy birthday sentiment from the Picnic Basket  stamp set in Pine  ink onto a  Top Folded Dove White Card . These pre-folded card bases make my cardmaking sessions so much faster. 

Next I adhered the two panels with Precision Glue by placing one panel above and one below the sentiment. There was just enough room left to add a few  Green Enamel Dots .

I hope I've inspired you to get a little creative with your stenciling. There are so many ways to break down a card panel to create multiple cards. Have a great day everyone!

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