If you love using your products in new ways, try using your dies to cut out stencils, for a coordinated look on your handmade card.
Today’s tropical flower card by Julie is featuring some beautiful new dies and a background made using die cuts as a stencil. This is a technique that creates an easy way to make everything match! Just pick your colors, die cut some flowers & use some of them as a stencil, and add a greeting. Follow these simple steps and try using your die cuts as a stencil for your next project.
- I started by picking out the ink colors I wanted use. These happen to be my favorite colors, so it was easy!
- The flowers & branches were all die cut out of white.
- I used detail blending brushes to add a little color in the centers before shaping them & attaching them all together.
- I knew I wasn’t going to have a printed paper to go with them, so I die cut a couple of large branches out of thin white card stock to use as stencils.
- After putting a little removable adhesive on the backs, I used the inks & some large blending brushes to brush ink around them.
- The branches were moved around on the background, so that some were left white & others were on top of ink already there. It gives them depth & interest this way.
- I picked a dk teal for the center & backing up the white dot dash frame
- Then all the flowers, leaves & branches were arranged & a greeting was added.
Above is the background before I added everything on top.
