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!!

Gnomes with Legos

TGIF everyone - I'm popping in after watching the latest Craft Roulette Live (#222 - replay HERE). I started a card during the Live but took an extra hour to finish! Here's my take:

Supplies: Paper - Neenah Solar White;

My Favorite Things Perfect Plaid (retired)

Doodlebug Designs Swiss Dot (retired)

Poptone Blue Raspberry

Stamps with Dies - My Favorite Things Hanging with My Gnomies (retired)

Dies - My Favorite Things Blueprints (retired);

Hero Arts Nesting Circle Infinity Dies

Other - Copic Markers; foam tape

Mary Gunn FUNN had Chelsea Comer, another crafty YouTuber (Inky Stamper), as her guest. The roulette wheel spun some interesting parameters:

Project: Dutch Door - I made my first Dutch Door card and it's a Double Dutch fold as learned tonight by watching a tutorial with Creative Moments by G. That was running on my phone with me at the paper trimmer and scoring tool while Craft Roulette ran on the laptop; I was multi-tasking, as usual.

Colors: Gnomes - Googled and found a site claiming gnomes have 7 colors (Blue, Green, Orange, Purple, Red, Chocolate and Pink); I chose blue and red as main colors with a few touches of green & chocolate and, of course, white for the beard. 

Element: Movie - Given I used faux "Legos" for my random item, we'll call it "The Lego Movie".

Random: Building Block(s) - I created a trio of faux "Legos" for the top of my Dutch Door. Used a rectangle & circle dies plus foam tape.

Just because we spun gnome colors, we don't have to include gnome images but I couldn't resist. I was looking for my MFT sentiments that go with the handyman tools - no luck. Ran into the gnomes and thought the new home sentiment would be cute with building blocks. Here's a view of the dutch door open:

That's it for tonight, friends - hope you have a crafty weekend! Thanks for visiting!!