As soon as I saw the new challenge at Just Us Girls I knew just what I wanted to do. This week's challenge is Anything Goes with Stencils. Last week I received the Create in Quads: Poster Prints stencils from Taylored Expressions. I don't often purchase from there but I saw a set of sentiments I could use with several "arts and crafts" stamp sets that I own. When I went to the site, I saw these amazing designs and couldn't resist adding them to my cart.
Once again the light was a problem this morning, and now it's gray and raining so the photos are as good as they're going to be for now.
I used Simon Says Stamps Pawsitively Saturated inks in Surf, Ocean, Lilac, Orchid, and Amethyst with some Hero Arts Spicy Mustard as an accent. What's not very visible is a final layer of Gold Lunar Paste. It was the first time I'd ever used it, and for this project it gets mixed reviews. I had to redo two panel because the application wasn't even enough. It's not as bright gold as I'd like. Taylored Expressions sells some gold foil layovers for these stencils and next time I order from there I'll definitely pick up a couple of packs.
Of the four patterns, I think this one is my favorite. All the sentiment strips were stamped with Papertrey Ink's Banner Sentiments and die cut with Honey Bee's Sentiment Banners dies.
The lines on the tulips are the gold Lunar Paste.
I added a few Pinkfresh Studio gold pearls to this card and the next one.
In real life all the centers of the flowers are gold (applied with Lunar Passte). I laid gold pearls over all the centers but it was just too much, so chose to add them to just five flowers.
The whole concept of creating four cards all at once with one large stencil is unique and would have been quite a time saver if I hadn't decided to mess around with the Lunar Paste. I'm anxious to try these in a different color combination as well. These are pretty bold and I'm happy with that, but next time I'll try some softer colors.
In addition to the Just Us Girls Challenge, I'm sending this off to NBUS as this is the first outing for this stencil set.
