Greetings friends. Today I was inspired to make a challenge card. I was over on the Splitcoaststampers.om site and the "Try a New Technique" theme was "Masked Stenciling." The basic idea is to mask off part of your card front, add a stencil and then add some ink so that you end up with a decorative backdrop for the card. You can read all about their current challenge here.
For my card, I started by cutting out a circle mask using Eclipse masking tape and a circle die. I made sure to adhere the masking tape to some cardstock first so that it would run through my die cut machine:
Next, I placed my mask onto my card front so that it ran off of the bottom left-hand corner:
I placed the stencil on top of the mask and then made sure to tape it down really well:
Finally, I used my Copic airbrush to color over the stencil. You could just as easily sponge the piece with ink. Important..make sure that you airbrush or sponge the stencil with a straight down motion. You don't want to have ink seep under the stencil if you can avoid it:
To finish the card, I curved a clear sentiment around my masked stencil area and added some flowers I colored with Copic markers.
Colors for airbrush- B02, B18, G07
Colors for poppy 1- R22, R27
Colors for poppy 2- YR15, YR07
Colors for stems and stamens of both poppies- G09, Y13, Y38
** Please note, I used an older Memory Box stencil that is no longer available. However, there is a very similar Memory Box chevron stencil that is still available. I will attach a link to that stencil at the end of this post.
What about you guys? Do you do a lot of challenges? Do they help inspire you to be creative and try new techniques?
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Fab technique for spotlighting your focal image. Thanks for sharing your creativity.
Posted by: Andre M | 07/30/2019 at 07:37 AM
That card is just delightful, Laura!
Posted by: Barbara-Jean | 07/30/2019 at 12:17 PM