What:

A simple one-layer card that finally gets me using my stencils.

How:

I stamped and embossed the sentiment and then positioned the stencil over it. I picked three colours and carefully inked areas of the stencil, masking with scrap paper as needed. I originally left some white space around the sentiment, but then I realised I’d managed to smudge the edge, so I replaced the stencil and fill in the remaining gaps. This looked okay, but the sentiment did kind of disappear a bit; silver gel pen to the rescue and the outlined “Birthday” pops out again..

Supplies:

• stamps:
  Clearly Besotted – happy birthday
• stencils:
  Claritystamp – webbing
• colour:
  Avery Elle – papaya, sugar plum, vino
  Versafine – pigment ink – onyx black
  Judikins – embossing powder – clear detail
  Uni-ball – Signo – silver
• embellishments:
  Papermania – glitterations – silver border
• paper and card:
  Hunkydory Crafts – ink me! stamping card
• miscellaneous:
  Tsukineko – sponge daubers