A while ago I purchased a cloud stencil as I saw it used to make some gorgeous cards. Even though atc's are much smaller than your normal greeting card, this technique still translates very well on the reduced size background. I love both being able to use multiple colours as well as sticking with one colour palette in a couple of shades, and have even done one (not shown here) in just Tumbled Glass, a very soft blue in the Ranger Oxide range of ink pads. Personally, I prefer using the Oxides to the normal distress ink pads as I think they have a great depth of colour and will blend very easily. I used Neenah card stock as I know Oxide inks work well with this and for adding the colour, I used one of the handled make-up style brushes with lots of bristles. Though I also tried it using my round foam blending pads as well as the little finger daubers and they worked well too! I found it best to work on a glass mat so you can blend off the card to start with and then you are blending onto the stencil so your chosen implement will pick up colour and transfer nicely to the background.
"Artist"
"Artist"
"Memories
"Space bar"
"Escape"
"Voodoo dolls"
"Pinata"
(The brick wall is washi tape)
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Thank you for this blog. It inspires me greatly!
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