I’m happy to be here today for AAA Cards Game #69 – Stash Favorite.
This week we have a special guest designer joining us, Ksenija of Sweet Kobylkin.
Welcome, Ksenija, we are so happy to have you with us!
🙂
STENCILS!
I love ink-blending and using stencils. Besides butterfly stamps and dies, stencils are definitely a stash favorite of mine!
The particular stencil which I used for the card featured in this post is definitely a favorite from my stash.
I’ve used it in many different ways, from CAS cards to Mixed Media mini calendar pages. I haven’t tired of using it. It is truly does make me ‘happy’ when I get to use it!
Here’s a card I made using the Happy Flowers ARTplorations Stencil:
As I made this card, it was rainy and the wind was blowing. I was feeling a bit blue – my husband was away for the week.
The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink’s Choose Joy Stamp Set.
I made this card using muted colors as opposed to the usually vibrant palette I’m accustomed to using.
I stenciled with a pink ink for the blossoms and green for the stems. Next I moved the stencil, slightly to the left side of the original image and repeated the stenciling. This time I stenciled with yellow ink through the entire image. The slightly off center stenciling makes the flowers appear as if they are blowing in the breeze.
I hope that you are inspired to play along. Make sure you stop by AAA Cards and visit all of the design team members blogs.
Here are 3 galleries of some of my other stenciled projects from the past year.
All photos below are
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If you’d like to know more about a particular card, please click on it. A new tab will open for you and you’ll be taken to the original post for that card. 🙂
Here, I have Gallery 1: Clean and Simple – CAS, like what we’d like to see you entering into our challenge at AAA Cards this week.
So, I’d consider the first 4 cards to be quite CAS. (Five if you were to include today’s post’s card.) What do you think?
Now on to the cards in Gallery #2 – those which I would consider borderline CAS and Mixed Media CAS.
And here I have Gallery #3 with some of my favorite mixed media, and decidedly NOT CAS stenciled projects.
Like I said, besides butterfly stamps, stencils are definitely a stash favorite!
I’d like to remind you that AAA Cards is, as indicated by our name, indeed a card challenge. If you’d like to be considered for a win remember to keep your card entries
CleanAndSimple! 🙂
Thanks so much for stopping by!
Grace & Peace,
Melissa
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Your card is gorgeous…great stamping and stenciling technique. We are so blessed that you joined our Challenge at Word Art Wednesday. We have a new Challenge going on and we hope you can link with us again. Leaving you with the inspiration of God’s Word in Jeremiah 32:17 which says, “‘Ah, Lord God! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.”
God bless,
JO ANN
http://jatterburycreations.blogspot.com
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Wow, heaps of inspiration here Melissa… love your work with the stencils.
See you soon too!
Thanks so much
Chrissie
“Less is More”
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Gorgeous card Melissa. I LOVE that stencil as well, and it does lend itself beautifully to that technique.
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A fantastic showcase of your work, Melissa. And the shifted stencilling works beautifully with this stencil, what a wonderful effect.
Thanks for sharing with us.
Anita x
Less is More
PS – see you soon! x
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I love what you did on the flowers to make it look like its gently swaying. I should try that. I never have much success with stencils in the past though, but your cards have inspired me to try again! Thanks for sharing them, and thanks for stopping by my blog too!
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Gorgeous card, Melissa! Soft stencilling looks amazing in combination with a simple stamping in black
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Love your amazing card….and that sentiment is just as amazing! Such a wonderful collection of creativity!
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What a beautiful card – I can see why the stencil is a favourite! Great choice of colours and I love the effect of the flowers swaying in the breeze with the offset stencilling. Thanks for a fab LIM entry!
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What a busy lady you are Melissa. A fantastic bundle of cards and loving the delicate colour combo and perfect stencilling on your AAA Cards. Thanks for sharing it with us at Less is More too. Looking forward to meeting up really soon!!!! x
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Thanks, Sarah! The galleries are from the past year. 🙂 Looking forward to meeting you soon too!
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Your cards are beautiful. Love the stencils and color choices.
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Wow, you have been busy. These are such pretty cards…nice use of the stencil and the colors are beautiful.
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Thanks, Susan. I made the cards in the gallery throughout the past year. 🙂
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I too adore that Stamplorations stencil and have never seen a colourway that doesn’t look good. Well your colours look stunning and I love the gallery of CAS designs using it. Great idea to highlight what you consider CAS and not so CAS – always a tricky thing to pin down.
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You’ve showcased one of my favourite stencils in a most stunning fashion, Melissa…not once, but several times! In AWE! Seriously in AWE!
~c
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Hi Melissa, I’m back….another swoon-fest happening! Quick question: where is the blooms sentiment from? I love it! Thanks!
Hugs~carol
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Thanks, Carol. I updated the post! 🙂
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Wow Melissa you went to TOWN!!! Beautiful all !!!!
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This is like a piece of Art Melissa, so beautiful with such amazing blending of colours x
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