Stenciled Winter Street

Happy Sunday! If you're in the US you're probably watching football - I am! But before the first game started, I finished a card for Just Us Girls #759 Stencil Week.

Supplies: Paper - Recollections A2 card;

Betterpress Porcelain; Hero Arts black;

scraps of red and glitter white

Press Plate - Pinkfresh Studio Holiday Street

Stencils - Pinkfresh Studio Holiday Street;

Dies - AJVD Stitched Dot Rectangle Backdrop Set;

Poppystamps Lavish Merry Christmas

Other - Various inks for stenciling; Hero Arts sparkle lacquer;

Copic Markers for shading; foam tape; Glossy Accents

Back in October I ordered some fun goodies from Pinkfresh Studio. Sad to say, I just opened the package last Monday! So I was determined to get a JUGS card made this weekend using the Holiday Street Press Plate with coordinating stencils. I pressed the plate with Betterpress Black ink onto a 5x7" porcelain panel. Next I used the 7 step stencil set, pulling #7 into the 4 spot and creating a quick mask to do an extra step on the sky. I wanted to do the windows in yellow which the stencil layers make a challenge. If I were Jennifer McGuire I'd make masks to cover the windows at certain steps & open them at other. Too much work for me - I just did what I could. Some Copic shading, Stickles and Glossy Accents finished the panel. I die cut the dried panel with a stitched rectangle, added a black mat and adhered to an A2 card. Pulled out a Poppystamps sentiment from the bits box and popped it on with foam tape.

Here are stencil step photos - warning, there's a bunch! You'll see I skipped stenciling the snow areas, leaving them white. Skip to end, if you'd like, for a bonus card...

Still with me? Here's a quick bonus - I pressed the image and die cut with a smaller rectangle, then matted and added to an A2 card. Copic colored just the window with Y19 & Y11. Added a sentiment banner that was in the bits box - might be Taylored Expressions. I took this to my cousin yesterday; he & his family moved to a new house just a mile away from me - yay!! 

So this was actually the first play of my press plate but no stencils involved. Since the stencils were newly used on card one, I'll add that one to Darnell's January NBUS Challenge #70.

That's it, friends. Thanks for stopping by!!