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Today's card features a new stencil called Classic Travel from A Colorful Life Designs.

This stencil set includes 3 different images on one sheet.

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Broken China Distress Oxide ink.
• I placed the inked cardstock into my Misti and stamped the map image with some black Versafine Clair ink.
• I splattered with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• I took another piece of white cardstock and placed it onto my Make Art Station.  I put the compass image from the Classic Travel stencil over my paper and inked it up with some more Broken China DOX ink.
• To help it look more like a compass, I covered it with some Nuvo Crystal Glaze. It takes awhile for the Glaze to dry, but when it was, I fussy cut it out.  Sorry, the picture doesn't do it justice, I just kept getting a glare.
• I glued the map background to an A2 sized card base and then I glued the black flourish die cut over that.  A friend gifted me a package of these die cut flourishes and I thought one of them would work well on this card.  I glued the compass shape onto the center of flourish. 

Here is the stencil I used:

Classic Travel

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Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Make My Monday- MASCULINE

Crazy is Our Fame- Stencils are Our Game- ANYTHING GOES= OPTION FLOWERS

The Crafty Addicts- ANYTHING GOES

Craft Rocket- FOR THE BOYS

Supplies

Stamps- Un Voyage Autour de Monde (Carabelle Studios)

Inks- Versafine Clair, DOX

Paper- Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.

Accessories and Tools- stencil (ACLD); Make Art Station (Ranger); white Posca pen;

Nuvo Crystal Glaze; flourish die (??gift from a friend); Misti

Lead the Way

Hello and Welcome

Today I'm trying my hand at some Mixed Media with this card.  Just playing around is fun.

So here's how my card came to be.

I began with a piece of heavy white cardstock.  I embossed it with my Cuttlebug using a folder from Carabelle Studio.  I think it's called Graffiti but I can't find it at the moment.

* helpful tip:  Lightly spray your paper before placing it inside your embossing folder to get a better impression*

Next, I sprinkled some Brushos onto my embossed card panel, sprayed with just a bit of water and let the colours bloom.  I used some black, lemon and some orange Brushos.  The black is the most amazing as when it is activated with water, you see shades of gray, blue and green.  I dried that with my heat tool. 

When it was all dry, I use the Compass stencil from AAll and Create with some Ranger Archival ink to stencil over to the side of the panel.  Some of the areas looked a bit dark, so I added touches of white acrylic paint using my brayer to lighten them up a bit.  I splattered with some black acrylic paint, then I stamped the sentiment onto a piece of black cardstock, white heat embossed it and pop dotted it over my background.

I glued it over a piece of black cardstock, then onto a white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- Everyday Sentiments (YNS)

Inks- Ranger Archival, Brushos, Versamark

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- EB folder (Carabelle Studios); Compass stencil (AAll Creates);

brayer; pop dots; white eb powder; black and white acrylic paint