Paste through a Stencil, Paste without a Stencil

Group of Seven Cardmakers are playing with paste this month.  I made one new card using glitter paste that I coloured with green ink.

I tapped some Rustic Wilderness Distress ink onto my craft mat and mixed in some Nuvo glimmer paste - it has lovely sparkle in it.  I then spread it through a holly stencil on off-white cs.  I kept the card very CAS so that the embossed holly takes centre stage, but I added quite a large sentiment on a banner over a section where the paste went under the stencil.  I finished off with red gemstones on all the berries that were part of the stencil. 

I happened to do a couple of cards using paste recently so I thought I'd repeat them here as they used pastes in two other ways.

This one uses a mixture of pastes to get some interesting varied colour - a rough mixture of black, copper, and white embossing paste. It came out way too dark and too shiny so I then sponged white gesso over it to lighten it and dull it down a bit. I also splattered a bit of the white gesso on it.  See this post for list of supplies and more details.

I mostly use paste through a stencil, but I decided to try a card where I just used paste without a stencil - in this case some Distress Snowfall Grit Paste applied directly to the focal panel to make the snowy ground.  See this post for details.

That's lots more examples from the rest of the Group of Seven design team, and if you're inclined to make a card using paste in some way, please link it up to inspire us with your ideas.

A couple of comments about paste:

1. I decided to check all of my various pastes as I hadn't used a lot of them for a while.  I threw out three pots because they had totally dried out.  They were not nearly as old as my Dreamweaver pastes which I've had for at least 10 years and are still lovely and spreadable.  Sadly Dreamweaver no longer exists.

2. I have a magnetic board and it's one way to hold down cs and stencil but I don't find it as effective as taping the stencil down on the cs.  On the magnetic board, the paste is more likely to go under parts of the stencil.  Or for a very detailed stencil, I recommend Pixie Spray to stick it down really well.

 

I'm also linking up to Stencil Fun (anything with a stencil goes). 

 

Supplies for the holly card:
Stamps - unknown sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black, Distress Rustic Wilderness
Paper - off white cs
Size - 5.5" square
Accessories - Memory Box holly stencil, Nuvo Glimmer Paste, red gemstones, stitched banner die

 

Two Birds with a Fence, and a Dove Framed with Snowflakes

My Time to Craft has a fun challenge.  It's called "1-2-3".  You have to use 1 of something, 2 of something else, and 3 of something else.  I have one fence, two birds, and three words.

I created a background with some blue watercolour paint to make a sky and some Distress Snowfall Grit Paste to make the snowy ground.  Added the die cut fence.  Then die cut two of the Time Holtz birds and did a bit of sponging on them with Distress Aged Mahogany.  Added them to the fence and ground, and finished with a three word sentiment on a banner die cut and some white splattering.

Try It on Tuesday wants to see embossing of some sort.  I went with both dry and heat embossing.  And I used a stamp I haven't used since I started my blog in 2015.  The last time I used it was in 2013 on a card I posted on SCS.  So I'm adding it to The Neglected Stuff Challenge.

I stamped my image / sentiment in dark blue in the centre of a layer of cs and then heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.  I coloured in the bird and the stars with a bit of lighter blue watercolour paint.  Then placed it in the snowflake embossing folder and ran it through my Cuttlebug.  

 

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - unknown sentiment
Ink - Archival Cobalt ink, Distress Aged Mahogany
Paper - white and red cs
Size - 6x3.25"
Accessories - TH bird dies, unknown fence die, sentiment banner die, blue watercolour paint, Distress Snowfall Grit Paste, bleed proof white ink

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Stampendous Classic Peace
Ink - ColorBox royal blue
Paper - chalk cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Ultimate Crafts snowflake frame embossing folder, clear embossing powder, blue watercolour paint