Welcome to the final one of my design team sample card for the new Art Nouveau collection stencils from ClarityCrafts. Today it’s the turn of the ‘Christmas Stars’ stencil – I’m going to share this one with the challenges at Happy Little Stampers and The Holly and Ivy (for obvious reasons!)

I needed to make a mask for this one, so started by outlining the large star from the stencil onto a piece of copy paper with a micron pen & then cut it out. I attached the stencil to a square of Clarity’s 7×7 stencil card with hinge of low tack tape, then lined up the outer part of the copy paper under it to isolate the large star & sponged ‘mustard seed’ Distress Oxide through onto the card.

Next I replaced the copy paper mask with the inner part of the star to cover the yellow area, then blended ‘stormy sky’ & ‘chipped sapphire’ Distress Oxides across the rest of the stencil. I switched back to the outer paper mask and this time sponged clear embossing ink through onto the yellow star. I removed the stencil and heat embossed the star with clear sparkle powder

I trimmed the stencil card down, leaving a white border around the image, mounted it on layer of dark blue Rainbow River companion paper & attached it to a 7×7 card blank. I finished with one of the sentiments from the ‘Feel Gud Gnomes & Billboards’ stamp set in ‘chipped sapphire’

I really love the highlighted sparkly star on this one. It took a bit of effort in creating the copy paper mask and switching between the two parts, but I think it was worth it!