Stenciled, Days 3 and 4

I've pretty much finished all of the projects I can do from the wonderful Stenciled class. I don't have a gelli plate, and I have translucent embossing paste on order. I may yet try to cut a stencil from clear packaging material and someday I might try stamping on a clear acetate card. Meanwhile, here's the rest of what I created during class:

Day 2. The idea was to watercolor through a negative shape, and the sample was a dog. I thought I would improvise by stamping a simple image and cutting it out to create the negative shape. I don't have watercolors per se, but I thought I could use watercolor pencils. Not so happy with that. When it dried I embossed over it in clear, then added details for nose, eyes and spots. Better. Then I messed up the words, and ended up just cutting out the pup and popping him up. Not my best project, but worth trying.

Day 3:

This next one was another of my "problem children". The white paste didn't show up much and the underlying sprinkles showed through. I patted some white ink over it and the darn stuff wouldn't dry, even after 24 hours. I die cut some leaves on vellum and didn't like them. Finally I stamped some on vellum and cut them out. I couldn't get happy with my butterfly and in the end decided to use all 3 of my samples. It's done. I'm over it.

Embossing powder over paste. It bubbled a bit because I used the heat gun right away:

Day 4.

You can't tell from the picture, but this one was dry embossed through the stencil before sponging on distress inks. That process gave me fits too because the Cuttlebug layers just didn't make sense. Finally I followed the instructions (duh!) and added a shim, and got pretty good results!

These next two might be my favorites from the whole class. We applied embossing paste and dribbled on different colors of embossing powder with a soda straw while it was still wet. It was SO hard to wait until the paste was dry the next day to heat emboss it. I did two versions.

 

Bonus! A nice little surprise was a couple of bonus projects. This one is misted through the stencil, angled, bordered and attached to the base.

And I like this next technique a lot. We sponged distress inks very lightly through a stencil, then without removing that stencil, added a more intricate stencil and sponged the same colors but with a heavy hand. I will definitely be doing this again!

So that was my adventure in stenciling. I had so much fun, made a lot of cards I'm pleased with and learned so much from a great group of instructors who kept it fun. Can't wait for the next class offering -- Clean and Simple Cards 3 coming up, I'm told.