Take a Leap of Faith into the Unknown

Today my cards are for the Monday Challenge on

the Simon Says Stamp Blog

with a fun challenge:

Take a leapof faith into the unknown.

Just by coincidence I received an email from

The Stencil Girl with a new and fun technique

I definitely wanted to try.You can see

the technique HERE. And this is what I

made to combine the challenge and the technique.

For these cards I used Club Scrap papers from the

Crewel & Unusual kit from February and the UM Stamps.

But also some olde stencils by Club Scrap I have.

I am always on the lookout for new techniques with my stencils.

I have so many, so I want to make good use of them.

With the Crewel & Unusual light kit there was a paisly stencil.

but I do not have that one, so I chose this flower stencil

and two colors of distress paint to work with.

I colored the flowers with the distress paint in two tones.

Lighter color towards the middle of the flower

and the red on the tip of the leave.

After the flower i took this dotted stencil and colored

with shabby shutter distress paint here and there some

circles.

Now the ivory paper looks like this.

Next I took a black pen and the stencils. I drew the lines

of the flower, but also doodled some extra lines

to make the page more interesting

When finished with doodling, I took some glimmer

mist colors and just sprayed very lightly over the paper.

After drying I was ready to make cards.

Just cut a background panel and added a sentiment

and some red sequences. Layered the card and finished.

For card #2 also a sentiment and used a piece of 

leftover paper as a ribbon.

I just could not throw away the last bit of paper

and cut these up into squares and added them

to a piece of decorated  background panel.

The woodse sentiment came with the kit as well.

Just colored it red with the distress paind I used before.

This is such a fun technichnique, I will do this again for sure.

Thanks for looking.

Have a creative day!