Altenew Educators Style It With Stencils Blog Hop & Linky Party + Giveaway

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Hi Everyone, and thank you so much for hopping along in today’s fun Altenew Educator blog hop! You probably arrived here from the fabulous Nicole Watt and the next stop will be the talented Teri Wilson. I am so excited to be a part of this amazingly talented group of people, and today we are all sharing ideas for using stencils in your artsy projects.

Stencil Technique #1 – Create your own stencil with a die cover

One of my all-time favorite techniques is to create my own stencil using cover dies, and I’ve used the Tangleed Loops Cover Die for today’s card. I began by cutting the die from a piece of cardstock, and then added a little repositionable tape to the back for a little tackiness. I placed the die stencil over an A2 size piece of Bristol Strathmore Smooth cardstock, and ink blended Sunray, Snapdragon, Marigold, and Velvet Crisp Inks through the stencil. After removing the stencil, I softly re-blended the Sunray ink over everything to add the hint of yellow over the masked areas.

Can you see the pretty sheen added by the Perfect Pearls? I love this trick!

Trick: The ink stays wet for a short time on this cardstock. So after removing the stencil and reblending with the buttery yellow, I softly brush Perfect Pearls over the entire panel. Usually, you would use an embossing ink to adhere PP, but it will stick to the damp ink. This gives a gorgeous soft iridescent sheen to the card background!

Stencil Technique #2 – Altenew Layered floral stencils

The newer Beauty Within stamp, die, and stencils set has my heart right now, and I love how these stencils create a soft layered look for the flowers. I first stamped the outline images with Permanent Black ink onto Bristol Strathmore Smooth cardstock, and then I sprayed Pixie Spray onto the back of the coordinating stencils. As you may have noticed, I went with the pretty warm colors of autumn as inspiration for this card, and so I used Blush, Rouge, and Velvet Crisp Inks for the flowers. To gently apply color through the delicate stencils, I used finger daubers, and found that I could dab with more pressure into the smaller areas to achieve the desired depth of ink color. This cardstock is a multi-media paper, and it truly took the ink very well for this technique.

How pretty is this layered flower created with the coordinating stencils?

Trick: The finger daubers paired with the BSS cardstock worked fabulously. I tried this with regular 80 lb. cardstock, and the paper looked like the fibers rubbed too much from the pressure of the dabbing ink. BSS did not do this, and the daubers worked well with the delicate stencils.

After inking all of the flowers and leaves, I stamped the little vines in Parrot, Olive, and Moss inks, die cut all of the pieces, added lots of dimensional foam, and adhered everything to a green cardstock background. Finally, I stamped the sentiment in Obsidian Pigment Ink, and added green iridescent pearls for a glimmery touch.

Prizes:

Altenew is giving away a $20 gift certificate to 5 lucky winners! Please leave a comment here on the Altenew Card Blog by 9/19/2020 for a chance to win. 

We’ll also draw a winner to receive a $15 Altenew gift certificate from the comments left on each designer’s blog on the blog hop list below. All winners will be announced on the Altenew Winners Page on 9/22/2020.

There’s MORE! We will pick 2 of our favorite handmade creations from those who joined the linky party and they will each receive a $15 Altenew gift certificate!

Hop list:

Altenew Card Blog

Amber Rain Davis

Neha Aggarwal

Nicole Watt

Erin Thompson

Teri Wilson

Helen Kalb

Rachael Shedeed

Terri Marie Koszler

Rosie Neustaedter

Amy Hill

Nandini Karmarkar

Maryam Sharara 

Nenette S. Madero

Irina Fonina

Vicki Finger

Virginia Lu

Thank you so much hopping along today, and don’t forget to link all of your own stenciled creations for more chances to win! Love and artsy hugs!

Erin

Altenew Products Used: (aff. links)

Tangled Loops Cover Die

Beauty Within Set

Altenew Inks

Obsidian Pigment Ink

Permanent Black Ink

Other Products Used: (aff. links)

Moss Green, Studio Katia Pearls

Strathmore Bristol Smooth Pad 9 X 12

Sponge Applicator, Sponge Dauber 25 pk

Published by erint2015

I'm a wife, mom, and former teacher. I decided to create a blog and share some of the ways I express myself everyday. You'll usually find my latest card creations, but I plan to throw in some projects from around the house as well. Maybe I'll even post a recipe once in a while. You never know what you're going to get!

53 thoughts on “Altenew Educators Style It With Stencils Blog Hop & Linky Party + Giveaway”

  1. WOW what a GREAT idea … I will have to give that a try! Your card is beautiful and LOVE that flower … gorgeous! Thanks for inspiration!

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  3. Beautiful card! 😊 The flowers layered with the stenciled background perfectly! Thanks for the inspiration, & tricks!

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  7. Such a lovely card. Like that you made your own stencil for the background. Thanks for the tips about using perfect pearls and Bristol smooth cardstock. Thanks, too, for the great inspiration!

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  15. Such a pretty card! I love how you made your own stencil, then brushed with perfect pearls. Thanks for the tip on the BSS. I love the stamp, where you can color it with stencils. I can’t wait to get that one.

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  21. Gorgeous card! Thanks for the tip on using the finger daubers to intensify the flower centers, they turned out beautiful.

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  24. So very pretty! Love the perfect pearl sheen and those lovely moss green pearls add another special touch to your stunning card.

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  28. Gorgeous card! I love the colors you used. What a great idea to use the die cut as a stencil! Those moss green pearls are going on my list!

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  41. Oh my gosh…that is absolutely brilliant! I would have never thought to use a cover die as a stencil! I may just do that today! So gorgeous!!!

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  46. Beautiful card…colors, techniques, they all work so well together. TFS the idea to use a die as a stencil.

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