Stencilled Stocking

I borrowed some Christmas stocking dies from my friend, Christine, so I could make my DT card for Peace on Earth last week.  I decided to use the same stocking die in a different way before I return it to Christine.  This one is for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown "Stencilling", Sparkles Christmas Challenge "Monochrome", Inkspirational "Christmas in July", and Stencil Fun "Patterns" (I used a Fair Isle knitting pattern stencil).

When I used the die earlier, I dry embossed it (see here if interested).  This time I stencilled it.

I used the smaller of the Tim Holtz Holiday Knit stencils, laid it over the die cut stocking, and used various shades of blue Distress inks.  I die cut it twice more from scraps and glued them together for dimension.  The background was made with various blue Brushos and with a Christmas text stamp (using stamped with second generation stamping to keep it subtle).  I attached the stocking to it with a blue brad.

It's a very different looking card to the other one I made using the same stocking die!  It's such fun to come up with different treatments for the same supplies!

    

Supplies:
Stamps - Stampendous Christmas Background
Ink - various blue Distress inks
Paper - mixed media and white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - blue Brushos, Sizzix stocking die, Tim Holtz Holiday Knits stencil, blue brad

Double Stencilling / Christmas Horse

The Allsorts Challenge wants to see stencils.

I stencilled with two different stencils on my focal panel. I started by spraying the piece of white cs with a pale blue spray (which left a few nice splatters as well as colouring the cs). Then stencilled the tiny grid lightly in purple, and then stencilled the branch with darker purple. I added a sentiment and few sequins and found a purple cs for the card base. It's for one of my sisters who has had some challenges lately so I chose an encouraging sentiment.  My second card is for Try It On Tuesday "Animals, Real or Imaginary" and Sweet Stampin' "Christmas in July". I stamped the horse and coloured with coloured pencils, then framed it inside a red panel with an oval die cut, and mounted on the card base.

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Red Lead sentiment
Ink - Distress Victorian Velvet and Seedless Preserves, Archival Jet Blac
Paper - white and dark purple cs
Size - A2
Accessories - pale blue spray, sequins, Memory Box Texture Mesh stencil, Lime Citron branch stencil

Supplies for card :
Stamps - Serendipity Clyde
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - white and red cs
Size - A2
Accessories - coloured pencils, Spellbinders oval die