Merry Christmas to you

There's still time to enter the Stencil Monoprint challenge at CAS Mix Up

You don't need to worry if you aren't sure what that is as here are a couple of links to videos to show you how it can be done.

Video Tutorials:

Stencil Monoprints - Lee-Anne Cross (6:50)

Stencil Monoprints Backgrounds with Distress Inks (8:28)

For this card I inked my stencil with a few shades of Distress Oxide inks and gently spritzed with water., I then flipped the stencil over and took a print. This is part of a border stencil. I die cut the rectangle and then used some of the waste for the snowflake. I added a few tiny tiny gems and a simple sentiment! The snowflake is stacked with an extra layer under just the right hand portion which doesn't overlap the rectangle in order to keep it level!

It's a fun technique, why not join us!

 

Thanks

The new challenge over at CAS Mix Up is a Stencil Monoprint

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Stencil Monoprint is my favourite stencil technique.

You start by inking the stencil, spritzing with water or shimmer spray.

You turn it over onto a clean piece of card that can take water, pressing down with a paper towel to absorb any excess ink.

This gives you a negative image of your stencil.

Instead of colouring the design or image on a stencil, you are colouring the background.

I hope you enjoy this technique as much as I do.

Video Tutorials:

Stencil Monoprints - Lee-Anne Cross (6:50)

Stencil Monoprints Backgrounds with Distress Inks (8:28)

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Steph (My Paper Corner)

I have done this technique before but not for quite some time... and having just done it again I can't think why it's been so long! It's great fun and gives a terrific effect.

I used a stencil from the Crafter's Workshop and inked it with Villainous Potion, Dusty Concord and Milled Lavender Distress Oxide inks before spritzing it with water and then taking a print from it. I love this tiny dot stencil and it makes for successful prints every time.

The butterfly is from Memory Box and with a few random pearls was finished.

It would be great to see lots of you joining in with this fun technique!

 

Home sweet home

Having had a few problems with getting my head around the updated Silhouette software for my Portrait cutting machine, I thought I would try again. When I loaded up the program, I was aghast to see that another update was necessary! Fortunately I think it must have been just a tweak rather than a completely new set up, so I was able to go ahead and make this 'home' word  for this card. I cut it about 4 four times and stacked them to give some dimension then coloured with Copic pens. The dry embossing is from Cuttlebug and the house I think was a little cheapie die from Hobbycraft. I wrote the 'sweet home' using the computer with the same font as the cut word, in a size to fit under the 'm'.

Time out - Home Sweet Home

Here is another try at a Stencil Monoprint. I used a stencil from Tando Creative. I inked it with various shades of green Distress Ink and spritzed liberally with water before pressing onto some cardstock. I covered it with a piece of paper to press down all over the  stencil and in fact as the stencil was really wet, I got a good impression on the paper too. I'll use that for something else.

I die cut the W&W hello from the image and also three more times from white card which I added underneath in order to give the dimension necessary to be able to actually read the word! I mounted the palin card onto a base of textured card to give a little contrast. IRL the colour of the two types of cardstock is much closer in shade than it appears on the picture.

CAS Stencil - Stencil Monoprint

I like this one more

Here I have some more pieces from the stencil monoprint which I made for the previous card. It seemed such a waste as there was quite a bit left. I simply cut two little squares and added a sentiment from Inkadinkadoo., topped by a triple stacked, foliage diecut from Sizzix. This time I took a deep charcoal for the backdrop.

I must say that when the challenge at CAS Stencil was created, initially, I was less than enthused, but with all the suggested techniques and ideas, for me stencilling has had a complete renaissance. Thank you ladies!

Just Us Girls - Thanks

Monoprint

Those gals at CAS Stencil have done it again... introduced me to yet another technique whose title was new for me. I had done something similar when using up splodges of ink from stencils so as not to waste it, but didn't realise that it was a technique in itself.

Here I used a stencil from Memory Box and 3 shades of blue Distress Inks. The complete image was too large for my card base so I decided to use just a portion of it. (Also I hadn't managed to get the stencil square on my watercolour paper, so I was careful to arrange my die squarely on the paper when cutting out!)It was difficult to find any white cardstock amongst my supplies which went with the watercolour paper, hence the use of blue as a background colour.

The die-cut snowflake and the sentiment were dropped into the inkiness on my craft mat, before being embossed with clear glitter embossing powder.

I did emboss a few splodges onto the stencilling but it's not too clear in the pics.

This is something that I will probably be trying many times in the future.

Christmas kickstart - Snow
Shopping our Stash - Here comes Susie Snowflake

HLS Stencil Monoprint

Over at Happy Little Stampers there is a new CAS challenge entitled

Stencil Monoprint!

This was a new technique to me and I looked at a couple of video tutorials to see what to do. It was great fun and vastly different effects can be achieved by using different mediums with basically the same process.

For this one I used a stencil from Stamplorations and inked it randomly with Wild Honey, Vintage Photo and Fossilised Amber Distress inks, spritzed it liberally with water, then took a print from it with absorbent card. dabbing away any excess water with a paper towel. I was really pleased with the result.

The little bird is from Technique Tuesday and the sentiment from Apple Blossom Craft Collection.
This is also for Stamplorations and CAS Mixup
                  

Here I used the same stencil with Wilted Violet, Picked Raspberry and Spun Sugar inks. Rather than inking through the stencil, you are actually using the stencil to stamp with!

The sentiment is from Crafter's Companion and the flower from Sizzix.

Here is another stencil from Stamplorations, I used Acrylic paints for this one together with a Gelli Plate. I used red, orange and yellow and then brayered them over the surface of the plate, placed down the stencil and took a print from it.  The sentiment is again from Crafter's Companion. I took several other prints too and particularly like this next one.

I love the effect of this one, although it's not terribly CAS, but I think that the print from the Gelli plate once the stencil had been removed is super. The colour where the flowers were, was removed taking other prints with the stencil still in place.

Butterflies from All Occasion Dies, sentiment from Tattered Lace and Winnie And Walter.

Needless to say, I have a few other incarnations which will be used at some point in the future.

This challenge is sponsored by

Tutorials:
Stencil Monoprint by Lee-Anne Cross (6:50)

Stencil Monoprint using a Gelli Plate by Shery Russ (1:26)

Happy Little Stampers Birthday month long celebration

Prize for each challenge this month is 

$30 gift certificate to the winner
$10 gift certificate to each of our Favourites

I hope you'll have a go at this technique, you'll certainly get more mileage from your stencils!