Believe

I'm very excited to say that I am a new design team member for Christmas Craft Creations and what could be better than to play along with us and have your Christmas cards made by the time December arrives!  I hope you will get out your stencils or be inspired to create your own with dies and punches! This first theme of 2022 is Stencilling! I love to make my own stencils from dies and punches, and that is what I did here.

I first die cut a circle out of a piece of card stock to make a positive stencil and a mask. Then I used the negative stencil to cover the card base and stenciled yellow ink in a blotchy way inside the circle. Next, I  removed the negative stencil and put the circle mask I cut down (with temporary adhesive) on the ink blended moon. I ink blended around the moon to cover the whole card base using several colors of blue ink. Next I made a stars stencil with copy paper using a star border punch. I stencilled with white ink to make stars in the night sky.

I stamped Santa and his sleigh as well as the trees with black ink. I spritzed water on the card panel with my hand to get a splotchy look. Last, I cut the Believe sentiment with gold textured card stock and adhered it to the panel. 

I cut down my stamped panel to 5 1/4" x 4" so that I could show the black glitter paper behind it. I attached the glitter paper to an A2 white card base and my card was complete!

Products used:

Santa and Sleigh stamp: Kitchen Sink

Trees from Lovely as a Tree: Stampin Up!

Star border punch: Stampin' Up!

Believe die: Not sure...maybe The Stamp Market?

Black ink: Simon Says Stamp Intense Black Ink

Distress Oxide dies in Pickett Fence, Tumbled Glass, Broken China

Cobalt ink: Archival Ink

Ink blending brushes

I hope you will join us for this fun, stencil theme...there are so many possibilities with stencilling whether you own ready made or handmade stencils!

Hope to see your post in our challenge soon!

-Carol