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DT Teresa - Stencils 2

Hi Everyone!

Today I am sharing another card using a stencil, our theme for this month of June.

This card uses Neenah Classic Crest 110lb Smooth Solar White Cardstock for the base which is cut with a paper trimmer at 4 1/4" x 11" and scored with a teflon bone folder at 5 1/2" to make a top folding card of 5 1/2" x 4 1/4".

I started by taping down a piece of Neenah Classic Crest 110lb Smooth Solar White Cardstock cut at 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" to my work surface withmasking tape to keep in place while I worked (but could be easily removed when finished) and taped down a 6" x 6" Crafter's Workshop stencil Tiny Circles over the top of the cardstock.

I mixed together in a bowl a small amount of Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste in white with a few drops of Distress Ink in Lucky Clover from a refill bottle and some emerald green glitter. I then used a palette knife to evenly apply the paste to the stencil. Once covered, I removed the stencil and immediately placed it into a basin of soapy water to be washed off later and set the stenciled cardstock aside to dry.

The beautiful image was created using Hero Arts Color Layering Peacock. The peacock was stamped with different colours of Hero Arts mid-tone Shadow Ink. The solid body was stamped with Pool, the tail with Emerald Green, the layered feathers on the body and tail and the legs in Navy and the eyes in the tail and beak were stamped with Lemon Yellow. I diecut the peacock and set it aside.

I then used Tumbled Glass Distress Ink with an ink blending toolto add colour to a piece of Neenah Classic Crest 80lb Solar White Cardstock and diecut it with the rectangle die from My Favorite Things Blueprints 21 and adhered it to the card base with Kokuyo Glue Tape Roller.

Once the stenciled cardstock piece was dry, I diecut a circle from it with a Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic Circles die. I used Simon Says Stamp Cardstock Soft Navy to diecut a circle only marginally larger to tuck behind the stenciled circle piece and adhered both to the cardfront.

The sentiment from Hero Arts Color Layering Poppy was cut apart and positioned to stamp in Hero Arts mid-tone Shadow Ink, Navy, with a Misti Stamping Tool onto a strip of cardstock, along with flourishes from the Hero Arts Color Layering Peacock stamp set.

I diecut multiple copies of the peacock shape and glued them as a stack to create a chipboard-type piece and placed the stamped image on top. I then stuck the sentiment piece to the card and glued the peacock on top before brushing A Wink of Stella, Clear, onto each of the yellow areas for some shimmer.

Thankyou for following along with me today. Please feel free to ask questions if anything needs clarifying. If you cannot find the items I have used (listed below) in the Auzz Trinklets and Crafts store, be sure to drop Neha a message via email or Facebook and she will do what she can to order the product in for you.

Happy crafting and have a great day!

Teresa

Products Used:

Neenah Classic Crest 110lb Smooth Solar White Cardstock

Paper trimmer

Teflon Bone Folder

Masking tape

6" x 6" Crafter's Workshop stencil Tiny Circles

Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste, white

Distress Ink, Lucky Clover

Glitter, green

Palette knife

Hero Arts Color Layering Peacock

Hero Arts mid-tone Shadow Ink - Pool, Emerald Green, Navy, Lemon Yellow

Tumbled Glass Distress Ink

Ranger ink blending tool

Neenah Classic Crest 80lb Solar White Cardstock

My Favorite Things Blueprints 21

Kokuyo Glue Tape Roller

Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic Circles, Large

Simon Says Stamp Cardstock Soft Navy

Hero Arts Color Layering Poppy

Misti Stamping Tool

Zig A Wink of Stella marker, Clear

Posted on June 28, 2017

Neha Aggarwal

DT Clarinda - Pretty Layout using Stencils

Hi Peeps, Welcome to my last post, today I have a pretty layout using a stencil in the background. The first this I did was choose the photo and the paper. This paper is by Lemoncraft. I then stamped randomly around the page with a music themed stamp using brown distress ink.

I then tore up an old page from a music book into strips and glued it down using a thin coat of 3D matte gel. I then used a mandala stencil and white texture paste to create texture to under and around where the photo would be. You can see in the photo below, while it was still wet I carefully dripped some pink ink into the paste to die it and added glitter on top.

Next, using Lindy's stamp gang's Moonshadow Mist spray in Violaceous Violet I dripped the ink from the top of the page. I love these sprays as they look vintage brown from one angle then when you tilt the page they have a shiny secondary colour, this one is purple (you will see it in other photos.

Once this was done and while it was drying I picked out some emphemera to match the colour scheme. I then inked all the emphemera with Walnut stain Distress Ink and Colorbox chalk ink.

When it was all dry I moved things around until I was happy with the layout and stuck them down with 3D matte gel. I wanted flowers coming out of the jar of hearts, so I stuck down some leaves and an emphemera flower as the base.

I then added flowers over the top. I wanted the hearts to stand out so I glued some tiny gold hearts onto the jar as well.

To finish it off I distressed the edges of the paper and added extra prima flowers.

I hope you enjoy my layout as much as I enjoyed making it.

Hugs

Clarinda xx

Posted on June 28, 2017

Neha Aggarwal

DT Teresa - Stencils

Hello!

Our fun theme this month sees us playing with stencils. I own a number of stencils but have not used these great tools as often as I should, so I have really been looking forward to this month!

I took a piece of Strathmore Bristol Smooth cardstock cut at 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" and taped it onto my work surface to prevent it from moving and placed the My Favorite Things Stencil - Waves onto the lower half of the piece and taped it in position also. I then swiped Gina K. Designs*Thermoweb Turquoise Sea ink over the stencil with aRanger Blending Tool, creating an ombre effect as I applied the ink more softly towards the bottom of the piece.

I removed the stencil and then did the same with the Tim Holtz Rays Layering Stencil on the top half of the card, this time using Barn Door, Spiced Marmalade, Fossilized Amber and Scattered Straw Distress Ink. I die cut this piece with the stitched rectangle die from My Favorite Things Blueprints 13 using a Sizzix Bigshot Machine.

Using Neenah Classic Crest 80lb Solar White cardstock, I die cut the larger sized Lawn Fawn Say Cheese, Again polaroid frame and cut another frame with Turquoise Sea cardstock from the Gina K. Designs*Thermoweb Island Dream collection. This gave me the blue I needed to place inside the frame. Before cutting the Turquoise Sea cardstock however, I used the My Favorite Things Stencil Waves once again. After taping in place, I used Thermoweb iCraft Decofoil Transfer Gel, smearing it over the stencil with a small craft spatulaand placed aside to dry. Once dry, I foiled the piece using Gina K. Designs*Thermoweb Fancy Foils Turquoise Sea with my Heidi Swapp Minc Machine. As my background had a distressed feel, I decided to distress the foil a little too with a Tim Holtz Retractable Craft Scratcher.

I stamped My Favorite Things Seaside Seagulls with a Mististamping tool in Memento Black ink onto Neenah Classic Crest 80lb Solar White cardstock, diecut and coloured the images withCopic Markers. I stamped the sentiment onto the polaroid frame from the same set using Hero Arts Black dye ink.

To assemble the card, I adhered the stitched rectangle diecut background onto a slightly larger rectangle piece cut from Gina K. Designs*Thermoweb Turquoise Sea cardstock with a paper trimmer using Kokuyo Glue Tape Roller. I adhered a slightly smaller piece of scrap cardstock behind the polaroid frame and placed the Gina K. Designs*Thermoweb Turquoise Sea cardstock square insert foiled piece to this within the frame and stuck the frame to the background piece using 3M Scotch Foam Tape. I popped the seagulls into position and finished off the card with some Pretty Pink Posh Sparkling Clear Sequins in 4mm and 6mm, adhered with Ranger Multi Medium Matte.

Happy crafting and have a great day!

Teresa

Products used: Neenah Classic Crest 110lb Smooth Solar White Cardstock

Paper trimmer

Teflon bone folder

Strathmore Bristol Smooth Paper

My Favorite Things Stencil - Waves

Gina K. Designs*Thermoweb Turquoise Sea ink Ranger Blending Tool Tim Holtz Rays Layering Stencil Distress Ink - Barn Door, Spiced Marmalade, Fossilized Amber, Scattered Straw My Favorite Things Blueprints 13 Sizzix Bigshot Machine Neenah Classic Crest 80lb Solar White cardstock Lawn Fawn Say Cheese, Again Gina K. Designs*Thermoweb Island Dream collection Thermoweb iCraft Decofoil Transfer Gel Craft spatula Gina K. Designs*Thermoweb Fancy Foils - Turquoise Sea Heidi Swapp Minc Machine Tim Holtz Retractable Craft Scratcher My Favorite Things Seaside Seagulls Misti stamping tool Memento Black ink Copic Markers - C4, C6, Y18, YR15, R20, E33, E35 Hero Arts Black dye ink Kokuyo Glue Tape Roller 3M Scotch Foam Tape Pretty Pink Posh Sparkling Clear Sequins

Ranger Multi Medium Matte

Posted on June 14, 2017

Neha Aggarwal

DT Teresa - Shabby Chic

Hello!

I want to apologise for not sharing my April projects with you until now. The month was a difficult one for my family as my beautiful mother-in-law sadly passed away, suddenly, and it was not possible to find the time, inclination or energy to craft.

The project I am sharing today is very different from my usual creations. I found myself looking through the Auzz Trinklets and Crafts store for products that hit me with their shabby chic-ness.

I took a 20cm x 20cm canvas and covered it with Ranger/Dina Wakley Media Gesso in white and allowed it to dry. I have not tried napkin art before, but was keen to give it a go and found the perfectnapkin for a shabby chic project - a parisian themed ballerina displayed with a music manuscript - perfect! I separated the layers of the napkin and kept only the top sheet with the image to use on the canvas. I tore away the section of the napkin that I wished to use and carefully cut around the ballerina's legs. I used a PVA glue to adhere the napkin, brushing the glue directly onto the canvas and on top of the image. I would thoroughly recommend using a decoupage glue, as it designed specifically for this and I plan to use this in the future. The PVA seemed not quite right for such a delicate paper. Again, I allowed this to dry before continuing with my project.

I love The Crafter's Workshop stencil Mini Cherry Blossomsand I paired this with Ranger Texture Paste, coloured with a few drops of Ranger Distress Ink in Cracked Pistachio. I placed the stencil in the bottom left corner of the canvas and applied the coloured texture paste to bottom half of the stencil. I removed the stencil, cleaned it off with a baby wipe and then moved it to the top right of the canvas and applied more texture paste to the area. Although the stencil is smaller than the canvas, once the middle of the canvas is covered with other items, it gives the illusion that the stencilled image is continuous. This also was given time to dry. (Yes, I needed to be very patient creating this canvas!)

I cut up some small pieces of Burlap Fringe in Sand and adhered these to the canvas with my favourite adhesive, Ranger Multi Medium Matte. My favourite, as it dries clear and leaves no evidence of its presence; no shine, so it doesn't matter if it happens to ooze out from the sides of the object you are adhering.

I then arranged paper flowers onto the canvas that have been in my stash for a considerable length of time, so this was a great opportunity to use them. You can find a beautiful range of flowers in the Auzz Trinklets and Crafts store here.

The butterfly wings and Eiffel Tower embellishments were from my stash, as was the frame sticker around the lovely sentiment which comes from the Stampers Anonymous/Tim Holtz stamp set, Urban Chic.

To complete the canvas, I took a sponge finger dauber and appliedTsukineko Golden Glitz ink to the entire canvas, apart from the inside of the framed sentiment.

Happy crafting and have a great day!

Teresa Products used: Canvas 20cm x 20 cm Ranger Ink/Dina Wakley Media Gesso (white) Napkin - Ballet Paris PVA glue Sospeso Transparente - Decoupage Glue (recommended) The Crafter's Workshop stencil - Mini Cherry Blossoms Ranger Ink Texture Paste Ranger Ink Distress Ink - Cracked Pistachio Burlap Fringe - Sand Ranger Ink Multi Medium Matte Paper Flowers Embellishments - butterfly wings, Eiffel Tower, frame sticker Stampers Anonymous/Tim Holtz stamp set - Urban Chic Tsukineko Sponge Finger Dauber Tsukineko Golden Glitz ink pad

Posted on May 04, 2017

Neha Aggarwal

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