Black Stencil Foregrounds + Giveaway

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Hey friends - I hope you had a good weekend! We actually got a little rain, which was a nice surprise - I'm hoping it knocks this Saharan dust out of the air - it's killing me. 

It seems fitting that my first card has an African vibe, but is completely dust-free!

I used this multi-scene stencil that is so gorgeous! It has a combo of little vignetted scenes and patterns that can be rotated for overlapping designs. 

But when I saw it, and the way that the silhouettes were the masking portion of the stencil, and the background was the stencil portion, I KNEW it had to be black and gold. I took this gold paint and a mini ink blender and carefully patted on a thin layer after taping off the scene I wanted. My tip here is less is more. If you get too much paint on the blending tool, it will get goopy and paint will go underneath the stencil. So keep the paint sparse and try to pounce straight up and down.

When I was done, I cut out the images and mounted them on gold foil cardstock and put them on a black card base. The sentiment is from this set. The cardstock is Pitch Black.

This month's Studio kit has such a fun, tropical vibe - look at that sticker paper! And the stencil in the kit has fun edges -  see how they are the positive and negative of the opposite side? I love it. And I LOVE the little beetle die - wait until you see the samples with that on the giveaway hop!

I took the dies from the kit and cut them out of cold press watercolor paper. I sprayed the pieces with water and then dropped in Teal, Pink, and Dandelion watercolor. I finished them with paint pen dots.

I used the Press 'n Seal trick after arranging them on my card to pick them all up. I added glue to the little fronds with my Precision Glue Press and then was able to transfer the whole scene to the card. I trimmed off anything that went past the edge, and used the sentiment from the kit.

Here are alllllll the extras, including the beautiful stencil I used above:

Of course there's a blog hop and a giveaway - so be sure and leave me a comment and visit the other stops to be entered to win a $50 gift card!

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