Hello there! I’m getting ready to settle down for a couple of hours inspiration from Barbara Gray and ClarityCrafts this afternoon, live from 3-5pm on the Clarity Facebook page and YouTube channel. As well as the masks & stamps I teased you with yesterday, Barb will have some fabulous ‘treescape overlay’ stencils to share, and I put one of the ‘woodland’ ones through it’s paces for this card. It works perfectly for the current moodboard at Just Add Ink and Seize the Birthday‘s ‘anything goes’ option.

You get the positive and negative stencils for each image with this set, and I started with the aperture one for 1a, the pair of trees. I attached it to a piece of stencil card and brushed ‘old paper’ and ‘peeled paint’ Distress Inks across it. I thught the images loked familiar and realised they are the trees from the ‘meadowdance & deerscape’ stamp set – I inked both stamps with ‘shadow grey’ Archival and added them into the stencilled images. I had to lengthen the stem for the one on the right, so simply masked off the base of the stencilled tree with a little low tack tape, turned the stamp upside down and used the base of the stem to extend it.

I positioned the outer part of a large moon mask onto the background, laid the other part of the stencil over the trees and lightly brushed ‘mustard seed’ Distress Ink to create the sun. The white card looked a little stark, I thought, so I took my green stencil brush and swept it around the card egdes (without adding any more ink), which softened the card.

I added a layer of Indian summer companion paper and attached it onto a 6×6 card blank that I’d already used a square embedder on to emboss a frame (no surprise there!) The finaltouch was to tadd one of the ‘bijou retro sentiments’ in ‘watering can’ Archival.

I think this looks like one of those slightly misty mornings we get at this time of year – and we’ve had a few of those recently.