Learn to Pause

 

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Learn to pause...what great advice for all of us who rush through life on a daily basis.

Fall is such a wonderful time to do that too.  Being out in nature right now is so wonderful.

So I decided to play with this new stencil called Layered White Oak from A Colorful Life Designs inspired by all the Fall colours happening right now.  This is a 3 part stencil, it includes a stencil, leaf mask and outline mask.  There are so many different ways to use it.

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

• I pulled out my Gel Plate again (hope you aren't getting sick of my talking about using my Gel Plate).  I rubbed on some Fossilized Amber, Carved Pumpkin and then in the center, some Barn Door Distress Oxide inks and brayered the colours together.
• I laid the White Oak stencil over my plate, pushing gently to get good contact between the plate and the stencil.  Like I have mentioned in the past, I use the end of a paintbrush handle to do that, you don't want to use anything sharp on your plate.
• I carefully lifted off the stencil and rubbed a piece of white cardstock over the plate to lift the print.
• Using my black Posca pen, I splattered some black over the background.
• When the panel was dry, I stamped the sentiment from Tim Holtz along the bottom using some Versafine Clair ink.
• I glued a piece of matching cardstock onto a white card base, then used foam tape to attach the panel to the card base.

Here is the stencil I used:

Layered White Oak

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Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

 Allsorts-  ANYTHING GOES WITH OPTION OF NATURE

Stamp and Fun = Creativity- COLOURS OF FALL

Color Dare- INSPIRATION PHOTO

Supplies

Stamp- Learn to Pause (TH)

Inks- Distress Oxide; Versafine Clair

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- Layered White Oak leaf stencil; Gel Plate, Speedball Brayer; 

black Posca pen;