Good morning
Today I’ve just done 1 card, but there was many hours in this card. As with a lot of my brighter more artsy projects, it has been inspired by techniques that I learnt from the lovely Tracy Scott
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I started with some white cardstock and my Dusty Attic Stencil DA1318 Warped Flower Stencil. I laid the stencil on my card front then traced it with a lead pencil
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I then used my Prismacolor Pencils to colour in each segment that I had traced. Each segment has 4 different shades of pencil that was layered 3 times each.
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I then used a black gel pen to colour in all the white area that was left. You could also use a fine paintbrush and black paint to do this. I also added some white gel pen accents to each coloured in section.
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I get asked a lot about white gel pens. My favourite is the Uni-Ball Signo Broad White Gel Pen
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The flourish chipboard is DA3327 Botanic Accents. I simply used a gold paint pen to colour it in
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The title is from the pack DA1291 Mini Captions #2, and I used a hot pink chalk pen to colour it in
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All of the chipboard and stencil used on this card can be found on the Dusty Attic website, https://dustyattic.com.au/
Well that’s it for me again this time. I hope I’ve inspired you to look at your stencils in a different way.
Heather
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