For the lace challenge I had pulled out doily inspired stencils and die cuts. This left me with a pile of die cut images, stenciled backgrounds and inspiration waiting to happen!
I created a variety of tags and card bases that I can add embellishments and sentiments to finish them when needed.
The doily layering stencil was my first inspiration:
2. Lay white cardstock on top of the inky stencil.
2. After the image dries, cut it up and turn into a tag.
Next was a softer doily effect:
2. Sponge the stencil with pink distress oxide ink.
3. Shift stencil and repeat.
After I used the pink spray I decided to try it in a tarnished brass:
2. Lay cardstock onto inky stencil and pick up ink.
3. If the stencil is too dry you can spritz it with water to add a bit more moisture.
I loved how the gold looked and decided to take a different approach with my next card.
2. Using translucent embossing paste spread over stencil.
3. Let embossing paste dry.
4. Rub on metallique wax - vintage gold over the entire surface.
5. Repeat until you get the gold finish you desire.
6. Buff off any excessive gold on the embossed areas with a dry paper towel.
After I had fun playing with the doily stencil, I pulled out the blossom stencil and created a background.
2. Let dry.
3. Spray purple stain spray from left side of embossed area and pink spray from right.
4. While ink is wet spritz with water and tilt paper to blend colors.
After I finished with the stencils I had on my desk a piece of cardstock that I had die cut with the blossoms from the mixed media stencils. I decided to use this as a stencil.
2. Heat emboss with clear embossing powder.
3. (My stamp had some leftover black ink which caused a soft gray image. I liked the effect and left it instead of starting again)
2. Sponge on antique linen distress ink or use embossing ink depending on the embossing powder you are going to use.
4. Heat the embossing powder to melt.
I repeated the process multiple times to use the backgrounds in a variety of ways.
First I misted over the embossed images:
1. Spray from an angle brown ink and added a spritz of water to help it blend and spread.
That ended up looking like this:
Finally I took the original mask with the sponged background and added a bit of text and mounted it on a card base.
I hope you are inspired to play with your floral dies and stencils!
Don't forget that the current Layers of Lace Challenge is open until June 4th and to come back on the 5th for a brand new challenge!
Suzz
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