Scripty Congrats

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Today's card was made using a white crayon and an embossing folder to create a unique background.

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock, placed it into the Woodgrain embossing folder and ran it through my die cutting machine to emboss it.
• With the raised side facing up, I rubbed over it with a white crayon.  The crayon acts as a resist when I apply the ink.
• Next, I rubbed some Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide ink pad over the embossed background.  To add a bit more definition, I rubbed on a small touch of Black Soot DOX ink.
• While I set that aside to dry, I die cut the sentiment and the flourish from some plain white cardstock a few times and then stacked and glued them all together.  
• I glued the woodgrain panel onto another piece of white cardstock, then onto an A2 card base.
• I glued the sentiment and the flourishes in place.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Crafty Friends- USE MORE THEN ONE DIE

Crafts Galore Encore- ANYTHING GOES

Happy Little Stampers- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

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

Accessories and Tools- Woodgrain EB folder (Sizzix); Flourish die (Dollar Tree); 

Congrats die (Paper Smooches- closed); white crayon

Do a Double Take

Good Morning.

Today, I have the pleasure of hosting and TLC Challenge at Splitcoast.

I am calling my challenge:

Do a Double Take
 The challenge is to use 2 different stencils on top of each other for your card.

I came up with this challenge after playing with my stencils and my Distress Oxides to see how well they would layer over one another.  I was very pleased with the outcome.

So onto my card.

I began by inking the back of the Mini Harlequin Circles stencil using Peeled paint, sprayed with water and pressed onto my paper to create a monoprint.

For those of you that are unfamiliar with monoprinting, it is another way to use your stencils. Ink is applied directly from the pad to the back of the stencil, sprayed with water and applied to paper.

When that was dry, I laid the Mini Circle Grid onto my paper and this time, I stenciled it using an applicator tool as you would with any stencil.  

I stamped some Graffiti down the left side using more of the Broken China then sponged the edges with that colour too to help tie it all together.

I stamped the flourish just off the edge of my card front leaving enough room to stamp the sentiment.

You can easily stamp over the Oxides which is another reason I just love using them.

I hope you get a chance to try this technique out.  It is a great way to get more mileage using your stencils in a different way!

Thanks for the visit...very appreciated.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and More- MAKE YOUR MARK
Craft Stamper- ANYTHING STAMPED GOES
Mixed Media World- ANYTHING GOES
Love to Create- ANYTHING CREATIVE/MIXED MEDIA GOES
Simon Says Mon.- STENCIL IT

Supplies

Stamps- Art Soul (Hampton Arts); Flourish (Technique Tues. sorry, discontinued); 

Graffiti (Kaisercraft)

Inks- Tuxedo Black Memento; Peeled Paint, Broken China Distress Oxides (TH)

Paper- Heavy weight white (local store)

Accessories and Tools- Misti; stencils..Mini Harlequin Circle, Mini Circle Grid (TCW); mister (TH);

sponge applicator (TH)