Stenciled background card ideas

Hi everyone! I am playing around with stencils for an online stencil class I am taking and here are a couple cards I've made with the backgrounds.

First up is a simple stenciled background using the Twinkle stencil by Spellbinders. I used 3 colors and when they over lap each other you end up with 5 colors. I used a pink, blue and green -I blended the pink at the top, blue in the center and green along the bottom. When they mix with each other there is a gorgeous purple and teal color that appears.

The daisies and butterfly is from the new Stampendous Hello Butterfly stamp set which is part of the spring 2023 collection. I colored them with copic markers and fussy cut. I didn't want to cover too much of the background, so I added slim profile sentiments from the Wonderful Script Sentiment die set.

Next up is a pretty background make with the Gina K Designs stencil called Snowflake Mandala. Once again I used 3 colors of ink -teal, yellow and pink. After I stenciled the colors, I used a thin layer of gel medium mixed with Sparkle Dust glitter. The gel is almost clear, so the ink shows through only slightly muted. The result is so pretty!

Supplies used on these cards:

 Twinkle stencil

Snowflake Mandala stencil

  Hello Butterfly stamp set

Wonderful Script Sentiment die set

Hello, Friend Sentiments Glimmer (for the "friend" and "you are")

Gina K Inks in Medium Orchid, Powder Blue, Lucky Clover (Daisy card)

Turquoise Sea, Sweet Corn, Bubblegum Pink (Mandala card)

Glossy black cardstock for the sentiments by Simon Says Stamp

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great day!

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Quick and easy cards with Stampendous Hope of Spring collection

 Hi everyone! Have you seen the new Stampendous Hope of Spring Quick Card Backgrounds? I new to them, but they are kinda cool. They are a nice weight cardstock color sheets of beautiful spring florals with a combination of birds, butterflies or dragonflies and a selection of sentiments. Just trim and pop them on a card base and with little effort you get a wonderful card. Check out what I made.

 My square card features one of the images with a cute little bird. I trimmed the down panel and  matted it behind white cardstock that had a circle die cut from it and then embossed with the Orange Peel Quilt 3D folder. That was then matted to a chocolate brown piece of cardstock. I added an accent flower and a few little branches from the Be Bold Blooms die set. The square card is made with the Lacey Squares die set. All and all a super easy and pretty card.

Next up is a beautiful floral and dragonfly image colored in blues and purples. I went super simple here and matted it to blue and then white panels die cut with the Rectangle Postage Edge die set. I tied some twine around the sentiment panel, added stickles and it was good to go. This was the easiest of the 3 cards. 

And my last card is a mini slimline using the French Braid and Hexagon Panels die set. I fussy cut out one of the pink floral images and placed it in the lower right corner. I marked where I wanted it trimmed and placed the part I trimmed off up in the upper left corner. I sponged some light blue ink on a few of the insert pieces and randomly glued them and a few plain white ones in to the outline.

If you haven't already, you can check out the entire Stampendous Spring collection it has several stamp sets, the quick card backgrounds and some watercolor panels. Stay tuned, I will have a couple cards using one of the stamp sets coming in the next few days.

Supplies used on these cards:

 Hope of Spring Quick Card Backgrounds

 Orange Peel Quilt 3D folder

 Be Bold Blooms die set

 Lacey Squares die set

 Rectangle Postage Edge die set

French Braid and Hexagon Panels die set

Thank you so much for stopping by and have a great day!

 

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I receive a small commission on your purchase at no cost to you)