Both of the cards shown today are made using the same stencil and ink colors. By stenciling them two different ways, you can create interesting and beautiful card backgrounds. The first card is ink blended by holding the stencil in place and overlapping the ink. Because the colors are on the cool side of the color wheel, it almost makes an ombre effect. For true ombre you would just blend a little more to have more subtle gradation.
After stenciling the 4.25″ x 5.5″ cardstock piece, I Zentangled the closed circles with a variety of shapes. This is a really fun technique. If you’d like to see another card made this way, visit here.
Even though it looks really cool as it is, I decided to use the negative cuts from the next card to create a circle around the black ‘hello’.
The sentiment is an inset circle shape that I cut out of the surrounding circle with scissors. This is then inset into the negative cutaway pieces of the other stenciled card which is shown below.
The last picture shows how I used the leftover ink on the ink blending brushes and the stencil which was turned 90 degrees after ink blending over the top of the cardstock as done on the first background. It made a great background for another card and there was no additional mess to clean afterwards!
Both card fronts were cut and layered using the two large dies from Gina K’s Master Layouts 1 set. On the second card, the black piece is the smaller cut shape and layered under the stenciled piece to let the ‘hello’ be the focus. I used two nesting circle dies to make the black frame around the circle. The finishing touch is the little silver half pearls glued to the black cardstock under the ‘hello’ sentiment die cut.
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Scrappinthread by Beverly Tiemann 