Jigsaw Hello

Welcome

I can't believe it's August 1st!!  The summer is just flying by.

So, a new month means a whole new lineup of stencils from A Colorful Life Designs.

Meet one of the new ones called:

Jigsaw

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

• I wanted to give the background more of a simple but unique look so I got out some of my Distress Reinkers and squeezed them out onto a piece of acetate.  The colours I used were:  Blueprint Sketch, Festive Berries and Peacock Feathers.
• Using a baby wipe, I dipped it into one colour at a time and pressed it over the Jigsaw stencil to transfer the colour.  I repeated that process until the whole background was inked.  It gave such an interesting, mottled look to the inking.
• When the panel was dry, I die cut the sentiment shadow from the middle and then die cut the letters from some navy blue cardstock.  I glued the letters onto the shadow cut from the panel.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of dark red cardstock, then onto an A2 sized card base.  
• I used some foam tape to stick the sentiment back into place over the background.
• The last step was to add some navy gems around the sentiment.

Here is the stencil I used:

Jigsaw

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Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to this challenge:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- Distress Oxide re-inkers

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

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); baby wipes;

blue gems; Large Hello die (Whimsy Stamps)