Quick and Easy Stenciled Card Design [Take Two]

Last week I shared some tips for creating multiple quick and easy cards. Today I'm sharing the second card from that post. If you missed it, be sure to head over for a look.  I explain my process for quickly producing a bundle of cards.

Here's the second card.

Here are all three colors.

For this card I used the larger frame from Mama Elephant's Flirty Scallop Frame die set and I changed up the stencil for the background.  This time I used the Deco Leaves stencil.

Below are the cards I shared in last week's post.  Be sure to head over for all the details.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you were inspired.

-Cathy

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Aren't you Juice the Cutest!

 I've decided to design another card duo based on one background panel.  Here's the first card:

I had that distress oxide panel on my desk.  I decided to use it for 2 different card designs.  You'll see the 2nd version next week.  I used the same supplies for both cards:

• Mama Elephant - Boxed Drinks | stamps + creative cuts
• Pretty Pink Posh - Sentiment Strips: Birthday | stamps

I went back to my love of a soft pastel palette.  Those sweet Mama Elephant images are perfect for it.  I'm very slowly growing my birthday stash.

The distress oxide blend is:

• Scattered Straw
• Dried Marigold
• Abandoned Coral

Don't forget to come back next week for my other card!

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Reverse Embossed Backgrounds

Hey friends! This is Amanda from Twiddler's Nook. Today I'm playing with reverse embossed backgrounds today and LOVING the outcome! It's simple to do but looks complex which makes it all that much cooler!

I started with a piece of white cardstock and ink blende it randomly with distress oxide inks. Today I chose picked raspberry, abandoned coral and wild honey for my colors. There was very little blending involved, mostly just getting color coverage on the panel. Then I put the panel in my Spellbinders Flower Frenzy embossing folder with the color side touching the protruding flowers. This way the flowers are inset into the panel instead of popping up.

After running that through my die cut machine, I inked up my brayer roller with black ink and carefully rolled ink over the panel. As long as you don't push your embossing flat with the roller, the ink will stick to the top of the panel and not go in the flower indents.

I glued the panel to a white card base and pulled out the Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Butterflies dies. I chose a simple one to cut from white cardstock with a gold glitter body. I used liquid glue to adhere the pieces, wrapped some gold thread behind the butterfly and popped it up with foam squares on my card front. Last, I chose a sentiment from the Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strips | Valentine stamps to ink up with Lawn Fawn guava ink on a sentiment strip, also from Pretty Pink Posh.

Isn't this technique so cool?!? I can't wait to try it with different color combos. Maybe even leaving the embossing white and rolling a color over the top. So many possibilities!

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

 

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Quick and Easy Stenciled Floral Cards

Today I'm sharing my process for making a BUNCH of floral cards quickly.

To start, I grabbed the Beautiful Blooms stamp set from Pinkfresh Studio.  This set has three floral images on one stamp set. I used the bottom [lower set] to stamp several sets of images.  This is a huge time saver as each stamp creates three images instead of one.  The coordinating die works the same.  It's one die that will cut all three images in one pass through my die cut machine.  Another big time saver.

To color the images I used the coordinating stencil.  The stencil is designed to line up with all three images. So again, you save time inking / coloring all three images on each layer.  Make sure you don't die cut the images until after you color them.  I used the same colors for each set [this was quicker] and changed the color when I moved on to the next set of stamped images.  When I was finished I had four images of each flower, all in a different color.  Below are three of the colors.

I stenciled a background for each card matching the color of the floral images.  The frame is cut from the Flirty Scallop Frame from mama Elephant.  When I cut the die, I cut both the small and the larger frame.  This saved time and I used the larger frames with the bell shaped flowers.  I'll share that card next week.

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog.  I hope you'll stop by next week to see the additional cards I created.

-Cathy

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