Hello there! I seem to be on a bit a of a roll with stencilling at the moment and picked out ClarityCrafts’ ‘winter tree aperture’ stencil for the main part of today’s card together with a couple of their ‘wee’ stamps, the boy and the dog. I picked up the colours from Hand Stamped Sentiments, together with the themes from Time Out and AAA cards.
I started with the tree stencil, attaching it to a piece of Clarity’s 7×7 stencil card, and brushed ‘mowed lawn’, ‘peacock feathers’ & ‘festive berries’ Distress Oxide through it, then added the little boy and the dog either side of the tree trunk.
At this point, the tree looked very stark against the blended ink, so I shaded it with grey poloychromo pencils, adding a shadow line around it as well with the darkest grey.
I trimmed the card down slightly, ran a Sharpie around the edges and attached it to a 7×7 card blank. One of the KISS word stickers finished it off.
This pair look like they’re ready for the school summer holidays and lazy days! I think the pup might have a bit of a wait for any walks or games, though – I remember my son spending one holiday reading The Lord of The Rings trilogy and barely moving for several days!!
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This is adorable – you’ve created a great scene with that stencil and those cute images. Love it – thanks for sharing with us at HSS again this week.
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Thanks Fiona!
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OMGoodness, I love this! Such a sweet scene!
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Thanks so much Leslie!
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This is GREAT! Perfectly CAS with soft colours and silhouettes. Love it.
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Thanks so much Johanna!
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Just wow, Deborah! Love this beautiful design – gorgeous tree, perfect shading and blending, and sweet silhouettes! It chimes ALL my bells, lol. Thanks so much for playing at As You See It!
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Thanks Heather!
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Love the card and colours you have used thanks for the info
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Thank you!
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You’re stencilling and shading is amazing and I love your little scene! I wonder what exciting journey he is on while sitting under that tree with his very patient best friend! Thanks for taking some Time Out to share with us at Time Out Challenges!
Hugs, Kate (DT Time Out Challenges)!
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Thank you!
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This is fabulous Deborah! Beautiful stencilling and the extra detailing on the tree really elevates this scene. I love it!
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Thank you!
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Lovely. I don’t know how you think of all the designs to give us the inspiration. xxxx
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Thanks so much Sue! Using the themes from the blog challenges helps!! 💕
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The colors are just gorgeous! Really love that tree stenciling so much!
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Thanks so much Vicki!
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love it. Thank you for playing with the Puppy challenge over at AAA Card Challenges, we hope to see you again from Sunday there’s a new challenge
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Thanks Maaike!
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Oh I just love this card! Your ink blending really is pretty and I love the pop of the tree! I always forget about creating square cards, thanks for the reminder. Thanks for joining the hand stamped sentiments challenge!
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thanks so much!
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Hi Deborah, just wanted to pop back and congratulate you for being one of our Honourable Mentions at Time Out! Hugs, Kate!
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thank you so much Kate!
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Another stunning example of stencilling – making me want to grab all my stencils and ink ink ink!
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Go for it!!
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So beautiful! I love the stencil tree with the pretty background!!
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Thanks so much – I wasn’t too happy with it to start with, but kept going and it eventually came together!
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