Stencilling over Patterned Paper

Hi everyone.  Here is another card using the technique over at CAS Mix Up this month.  I used a Tim Holtz Flourish stencil and a Creative Expressions mini stencil called Shabby Harlequin, and a set of Creative Craft Products DL Torn Edge dies and also the Oval Torn Edge Dies.

I started with a piece of quite plain dp from my stash and cut it with a DL Torn Edge die  to fit a DL card, and then using the Flourish Stencil I chose one portion of it to fill a corner by masking off around it so that I wouldn't ink up bits I didn't want, and added it to each end of the piece of paper using Wilted Violet Distress Ink using a blending brush.  I then decided to add another pattern as I felt it was a bit too plain in the centre and used Spun Sugar DI quite lightly to the centre with the Shabby Harlequin stencil, but then decided to do it all over the piece.  I wasn't sure about the colour so I then put the stencil back over and worked my way over the whole piece with Picked Raspberry DI, again quite lightly but it did brighten it up slightly but was still quite a peachy pink but thought I would leave it there.  Although this second stencil is small being a regular pattern it matched up fine.  

I finished by cutting two of the Torn Edge Ovals and the larger one I coloured with the Wilted Violet using the blending brush, and then on the smaller white one I just used what was left on the brush to take the whiteness down a bit.  I finished by stamping a sentiment onto it again with the Wilted Violet ink and heat embossed with WOW Clear Gloss Embossing Powder and layer it up onto the card in a landscape format. 

I hope you will give this a try as if you are like me you have lots of patterned papers which perhaps don't look so great on their own but used as a background they are perfect and my stencils get a bit neglected too.  We would love to see what you can do so do come and join us.  There is still a couple of weeks before it closes at the end of the month.  Thank you for visiting my blog today and I'll see you again soon.

I am entering the following challenges:

Allsorts Challenge Embossing Wet or Dry/Anything Goes.

Simply Clean & Simple Challenge - Aug. '26 Anything Goes/Nature.

Stencil Fun Challenge - Aug. '26 CAS Design Style/Anything Goes.

Time Out Challenge - No. 319 "Pick 2" ( I have Birthday and CAS and an extra Geometric (diamond stencilling and oval mats).

CAS Mix Up Challenge - Auig. 26 Stencilling over Patterned Paper.