Uniko Introducing - Natures Treasures Stencil

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Uniko have a fab new release of stamps and stencil designs due to go live on 12 May.  So that means we have a week of posts from the DT sharing what we have made with the designs!  Today we are featuring the Natures Treasures Stencil and Block Sentiments II.  My cards feature the lovely leaves from Natures Treasures:

I have simply inked through the stencil with distress oxides and die cut a central panel coloured with the same inks.  The sentiment is from a previous Simply Said set.

On this card I went for more autumnal shades and layered the leaves over the lattice stencil.  I added a dragonfly which I had gold embossed on vellum (I think it was free with a magazine) and a sentiment from Originally Organic.

These leaves work perfectly either as a focal point or finishing touch on card designs.  

The rest of the DT have great inspiration to share and you can find out what they have made with the sentiments and leaves over on the Uniko blog.

Thank you for stopping by - I shall be back tomorrow with another new Uniko design to share with you.

Sarah x

Watercolour Hare

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The theme at Time Out this week is 'Wild' and that reminded me to play with a hare silhouette stencil and mask which I have put in my Folksy shop but not used on a card as yet....

I used the stencil on watercolour card.  First I wetted the card within the silhouette and then added sparkle pens to create a watercolour effect - the colours spread and merged within the image.  Once it was dry, I drew round the hare to give a more definite outline.  I then stamped some Indigoblu silhouette leaves in front of the hare, before masking the hare and stamping further flowers so that they look as if they are behind him.  The sentiment is from Uniko.

I shall link up for a third time at Simon's Wednesday Challenge where Anything Goes.  

I have also used the stencil on a small mixed media canvas:

I drew round the hare image and flipped the stencil so that they were facing each other.  Then I traced round the image with Pebeo Cerne Relief which provides a raised outline.  I used Pebeo's moon, prisme and vitrail paints in the hares which mix and merge to create magic combinations.  Once that was dry I painted the background with acrylic paints creating layers using stencils and grasses using the side of a credit card.  

Thank you for stopping by,

Sarah x

Awesome

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I have a new stencil to share with you today which I think gives you lots of options for making cool cards for guys! I have used the stencil and the mask to make the following:

Here I used the stencil aperture and dabbed through with white and blue acrylic paints.  I stippled the colours to give the wave some variation of colour.  The sentiment is from Waltzingmouse Stamps (no longer available) and is white embossed.

I effectively used the same technique by stippling around the surfer mask.

I will link the first card up at CASology as I think it works great with their cue card - Active.  I will also link up at Time Out as I think this wave looks pretty wild :)  I would also like to play along with this week's Anything Goes challenge at Simon's Wednesday Challenge.

I hope you like the new stencil....it is available in my Folksy shop :)

Thanks for stopping by,

Sarah x

Wish Big

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I inked up my Shooting Stars stencil again the other day and made this card:

I created a rainbow effect with distress inks and added a new sentiment stamp from Altenew.  The little critter is from Mama Elephant and I coloured him with pencils.  I drew a line to the mdf star so that he is swinging from it.  

I shall link up at CASology where the cue card is Active and at Simon's Wednesday Challenge where Anything Goes this week.  I shall also link up for a second time at Inkspirational where the theme is Play because I think that he looks like he is having a lot of fun!  Finally, I shall link up at Seize the Birthday's Anything Goes challenge.

You can get this stencil and the mdf stars in my Folksy shop.

I hope you are having a fun weekend :)

Sarah x

Flowers in Spring

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I have a few floral cards to share today.  First up is a card made using my new Floral Beauty stencil which I have simply inked through:

I used a combination of Wild Honey and Abandoned Coral distress oxides and simply highlighted the flowers with black pearls.  The butterfly is punched from black glitter cardstock and the central panel uses black glitter cardstock too.  The sentiment is from Stamplorations.

I shall link this card up at Simon's Monday Challenge where the theme is Flower Power and at Addicted to Stamps where the theme is CAS.

I have also used sparkle pens to watercolour some Tim Holtz florals - they add a subtle shimmer to the image:

The sentiment is from Hero Arts.  I added some extra splatters to emphasise the watercolour look.  I shall link this card up at Simon's Wednesday Challenge where the theme this week is Anything Goes. 

I hope you like these cards :)  Thanks for stopping by,

Sarah x

Flying By

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I have been eyeing up the lovely tropical leaf and parrot stamp set from Altenew for ages and decided to get it last week whilst we were having a brief spell of warm weather :)  I thought the parrot would go well with my Forest Foliage stencil and this is what I made with them:

I simply stamped and masked the parrot before inking the foliage stencil through a circle mask and lightly inked round the edge to give the circle soft definition.  I coloured the parrot with spectrum noir pencils and added an Altenew sentiment from the iris set.  I have been so busy playing with stencils that it is ages since I coloured anything in with pencils....it took me ages to unearth them from under a load of other crafty supplies!  I shall link up at Less is More where the theme is Bring it Back and at Seize the Birthday where the theme is vibrant colours.

I hope you like my tropical design :)  The stencil is available in my Folksy store.

Thanks for stopping by,

Sarah x

Symmetry

Hello,

I wanted to make a card to play along with the challenge at The Male Room which focuses on symmetry.  I have created a simple one layer card using my Geometric Crosses stencil:

I just inked through the stencil with Blueprint Sketch distress oxide ink and stamped images from MFT to complete the design.  The clean lines of the stencil and stamp give a crisp, graphic feel to the card which I think works well for mens cards :)

I shall also link up at the new challenge over at Inkspirational where the word prompt is Play.

The Geo Crosses stencil is available in my Folksy shop.

Thanks for stopping by,

Sarah x