Welcome friends! This is Amanda with Mix it up Monday. Today I'm playing with the Concord & 9th Sweet Stems stencil set I picked up a while ago. It's laid out perfectly that you don't need to mask anything to get the perfect color layering and is really fun to create with in any color palette. To prove that, I sat and created 3 cards with what felt like no effort at all.
With a stencil set like this my first attempt is always just to play with it and see how the layers fit together. Sometimes I'm done after that but with this set I kept coming up with color combos I wanted to try out and see how they looked together.
I used distress oxide inks for this first card - salvaged patina, twisted citron, dried marigold, spiced marmalade. Then I used dried marigold for my sentiment color as well. I splattered the panels with water and then with pearl watercolor for sparkle.
For this card I switched to Lawn Fawn dye inks - no. 2 pencil, jalapeno, ballet slippers and guava. I splattered it the same and used guava for my sentiment.
This final combo is also Lawn Fawn dye inks - jalapeno with artichoke on some darker spots, ballet slippers, fresh lavender and juice box. I used fresh lavender for the sentiment.
After inking all of the panels I trimmed them down to fit just behind the Mama Elephant postage frame and used liquid glue to adhere the layers together. The sentiments all came from the Mama Elephant Way to Go stamp and die set.
I popped the sentiments up with foam strips and then popped the postage frames up on gray card bases with foam tape as well. I oriented them all differently so you could see the variations. Then trimmed any excess off the edges with a paper trimmer.
I hope this gives you some inspiration to take a moment and get inky. It's fun and well worth the time!
I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!
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