Birthday Fun

Welcome

I have a lot of birthdays coming up this month, so I pulled out my stencils and got to playing.

I don't know if you have ever stenciled and then cut out the images of your stenciled piece. Well that's what I did today with the flowers.

So here's what I did to create my card.

• I began with a piece of white cardstock and laid the Stained Glass stencil from A Colorful Life Designs over my paper.  Using my blending brushes from Taylored Expressions, I rubbed on some Picked Raspberry randomly over my stencil, leaving some areas un-inked.  Then, using some Carved Pumpkin, I went over the stencil again filling in the empty areas and blending with the pink.
• When the whole panel was inked, I left the stencil in place and splattered it with water to lift some of the ink and add interest to the background.
• While the panel dried, I did some more stenciling on another piece of white cardstock using the same colours with the Flower stencil from the Fresh Collection by Vicki Boutin.  I fussy cut out the flowers from the stenciled background.
• Using a strip of white cardstock, I stamped the Happy Birthday, then glued that over my main stenciled panel. 
• I pop dotted the flowers to the side and then glued it all onto a heavy white card base.

This is the stencil I used:

Stained Glass

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Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps-  Everyday Circle Tags (Avery Elle)

Inks- DOX (mentioned above), Versafine Clair Nocturne

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ontario)

Accessories and Tools- Stained Glass (ACLD); Fresh (VB), TE Blending Brushes