November Joy Clair Challenge: Stencil It!

Hey there stampers!  Today I'm joining my fellow Joy Clair team members in kicking off the November Challenge on the blog with a fun stenciling challenge.  STENCIL IT!  We welcome you to play along and encourage you to post your creation in our inlinkz for your chance at a $25.00 gift certificate to Joy Clair!!!  Come on, Join the fun!

I totally intended on making this card a FALL card but...it just didn't want to be a fall card.  I think it wanted so much to be a snowy scene...so I just followed along for the ride.  

To create my "starlight scene", I made my own stencil using some punches and a piece of cardstock.  I originally started stenciling with the dauber but found that too annoying so I just inked up my finger and dabbed onto the stars and dots.  It worked much better!

Those itty bitty dots didn't stencil as well as I thought they would and just became some pin prick colors.  I think these dots would have worked a bit better in gold on dark cardstock but oh, well...I just had to keep applying the dots so it would look like I meant to have them all there.  HA HA.  

After doing the stenciling (notice my blue finger dabbed in yellow made an oopsie green star),  I started coloring one of the trees from the Happy Camper set.  I colored/painted it with a combination of Tombow #296, and Memento Cottage Ivy (with water) and Rich Cocoa (with water).  I colored the other two tree trunks and gave a little shadow with the Tombow N95.  I then cut out this tree and the other two trees so that I could figure out a nice arrangement on the card.  

 I figured out a nice arrangement, tied some twine, machine stitched some meandering lines, added some pop dots, laid the trees down, then searched for the perfect sentiment...I found it in the Salt and Light set.  Inked it up with Memento Black and stamped her on.

The stamped image was then splattered with some sparkle silk and pop dots were added to make her float on the card base.  FINITO BANDITO!  Love it!

I hope you enjoyed this creation and remember, if you don't have stencils, make your own!  Easy, peasy!

Thanks for stopping by!

Salt and Light...

Hello and welcome to the second day of the Joy Clair August product Inspiration blog hop.  I hope you enjoyed yesterday's hop and I'm excited to share another card with you.  If you've arrived here from Helen's blog, you're on the right track, if not, I've included the blog roll so you can just jump right in!

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Martha Lucia Gomez

Jessica Pascarella

Helen Gullett

Kerry Urbatch (That's ME!)

Lindsay Adreon

LeeAnn McKinney

Lori Kobular

Steph Ackerman

This time, I've created with a gorgeous set from the Color By Faith collection called Salt and Light. It is a beautiful set with sentiments from John and Matthew and some amazing coordinating images. I have so many plans for this set so you'll have to stop back again to check out more creations.

To make this card, I started out by creating a yummy background using a Kaleidacolor pad (Fruitcake).  I love the blend of colors it creates.  How did I do the background?  Well, it was quite simple.  I first stamped the Kaleidacolor pad onto a stamp block then spritzed it with water.  After that, I transferred the image onto my Gelli Plate and lifted a few prints from it.  I got about six or seven background prints from one inking!  So yummy. The ink was dried immediately so I was able to ink up the world image and using my Misti, I stamped the image twice onto the colored panel.

After that, I cut the panel to the size I liked, added some gold paint splatter and then moved on to the image.  Since the lightbulb already had a sentiment on it, I opted to just color the lightbulb with watercolor pencils and cover it with Glossy Accents.

The next step was to add a bit of tissue paper to the edge, a strip of hot pink cardstock to the opposite edge, some machine stitching, and re-applied the printed strip underneath.  I also popped the panel up on foam squares to give a little more dimension.

Before I called it quits on this card, I applied a few droplets of glaze onto the colored panel and added some golden bling.

I hope you enjoyed this creation.  I loved making it and can't wait to share more projects using the background papers that remain. Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of the hop!  Please continue hopping by visiting Lindsay's blog next.  If you visit all blog stops on the hop and leave a comment each time, you'll be entered into a drawing for a $25 gift certificate to the Joy Clair shop!