Saturday, April 2, 2016

HLS CAS April Challenge Starts Today!

It is April already and time for a new challenge at Happy Little Stampers CAS.  This month it's also about stencil monoprinting.  This is a really easy technique and one you can do with any plastic or metal stencil.  (Hmm, I wonder if you could use glossy paper to make your own stencil for this technique.)

I'm in a spring mood but also mindful that Christmas arrives before you know it so I combined the two.  What?!  What?!   I used bright and happy Distress Inks and randomly ran them horizontally over my stencil, following the lines of the faux stitching.  I overlapped in some places but not too much to avoid muddy colors and icking up my pads.  I followed that up with a few liberal spritzes of water.  I have a roll of Bounty always at the ready in my craft space (yes, I have a cat) so I used that to absorb any excess ink that oozed out when I pressed the stencil onto my paper.  Bright and fun and imperfectly perfect! I used a textured cardstock behind the sentiment because it reminded me of ribbing.  Easier to see irl.  

I hope you have a ton of ideas with this technique to share with us at HLS--looking forward to seeing what you link up!

The Details:  Avery Elle dies, Recollections 110lb white and black cardstock, Distress Inks picked raspberry, mustard seed, mermaid lagoon, mowed lawn, Tim Holtz stencil and watercolor paper

11 comments:

  1. That's a neat technique...I'm going to try to play along. Your card is FABulous.

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  2. That's one yummy, pretty and clever take on the stencil monoprint technique Toni. Love your stencil and design. Thanks for inviting me to guest design at HLS this month. Sarah x

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  3. That's one yummy, pretty and clever take on the stencil monoprint technique Toni. Love your stencil and design. Thanks for inviting me to guest design at HLS this month. Sarah x

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  4. Love the bright colours for this sweet Christmas card Toni! Great job with the technique. xx

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  5. This is so bright and jazzy Toni..love how your stencilling turned out!
    Neither your nor my links from HLS are working properly!
    Chrissie xx

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  6. This is absolutely fantastic card, Toni! Love that colorful and fancy back, and that black bold sentiment - what a great addition to all those colors!

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  7. Hi Toni, do you know that your link from HLSS does not work?
    The card is fabulously colorful. I fabulously joyful. I love its lightness.
    hugs,
    BozenA

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  8. This came out great! So lovely how all those colors blend happily together! Of course you can make your own stencil out of glossy cardstock, but why waste glossy paper? You can use those greeting cards they send to you when they want you to donate money or when you have donated money. That's one of those things I use them for.....

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  9. Dude, this is awesome. i love non-traditional holiday cards, and this just totally floats my boat!

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  10. Sorry I'm so late visiting this one, Toni.
    I remember admiring this beauty over at the DT blog at the time and I LOVE it! Those stencilled colours are wonderful. I like non-traditional colours for Christmas cards and this one is delicious! xx

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