What is really beautiful needs no adorning

Sharing a card featuring the beautiful Stylish stencil by Funky Fossil Designs.

This is a stunning stencil and it makes the most gorgeous of cards.  For this one I actually masked off the neck on the stencil to make the image smaller to fit into my layout, which is from the current sketch at Freshly Made Sketches.  I’ve flipped the sketch vertically so the sentiment is at the bottom to fit the image better.  For added interest I’ve double matted everything and varied the sizes of the mat layers.

Over at Addicted to CAS they’re looking for ombre designs.  I’ve sprayed Distress Resist Spray through my stencil and used one shade of Distress Ink, Shaded Lilac, to then colour my watercolour paper and make the stencilled image stand out.  Not sure if there’s something wrong with my Shaded Lilac inkpad as the colour is definitely more blue than purple, particularly where I’ve added more layers of colour to create the ombre effect.

With my layers of coloured mats and large image there really was no need for any designer paper on this card, which is just as well as I wanted to play along at Creative Craft Cottage for their no patterned paper challenge.

Keeping this card CAS, I’ve only added two embellies, one is my sentiment, a fabby Make it Crafty chippie I’ve used embossing powder to colour and a tiny pearl and pearl drop as an earring.  For a card that was super quick to put together and took minimal supplies I am really happy with how it turned out.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Bellbird Paperarts Embossing Powder ~ Ultra Fine Platinum

Ranger Embossing Powder ~ Clear

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Funky Fossil Designs Stencil ~ Stylish

Embellishments

Make it Crafty Chipboard Single Layered Words ~ 2" Sparkle

Pearls from my stash

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress ~ Resist Spray

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Shaded Lilac

Tsukineko ~ VersaMark Ink

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Criss Cross Cardstock ~ Hyacinth

Photoplay Luke 2 ~ Blue/Cream

Challenges

Creative Craft Cottage #117 ~ No Patterned Paper

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Beauty is a nectar which intoxicates the soul

Sharing a CAS card featuring a beautiful stencil from Funky Fossil Designs called Elegant Lady and a sentiment from the Sprinkles and Smiles set by Penny Black.

I loved this stencil the first time I saw it on an entry to a challenge.  And that’s another reason I love challenges, they enable you with new crafty prettiness.  So not only do you get so much inspiration from the theme, from the DT and also from other crafters who enter you get to add to your stash!

My card follows the layout of the current sketch at Sketch Saturday.  I’ve used the stencilled face as the main circle element and added in the rectangle element with a swish of ink.  I embossed the sentiment before adding in my ink stripe and finished off with Kaisercraft Sparklets for the five smaller circles in the sketch.

I wanted to play along at The Paper Girls with their sparkle and shine theme so I went over the stencilled image with Wink of Stella.  I also added some mica to the ink for the pink stripe and the embossing powder I used has a lovely shine to it.  It’s also the reason I went with Sparklets rather than pearls for the smaller circles.

Over at Crazy4Challenges they are celebrating and my card is celebrating a friend’s birthday.  And the sparkle and shine are just perfect for a celebration for what’s a party without a bit of glitter?!

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Hero Arts Embossing Powder ~ White Satin Pearl

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Funky Fossil Designs Stencil ~ Elegant Lady

Embellishments

Kaisercraft Sparklets ~ Princess

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Picked Raspberry, Spun Sugar & Wilted Violet

Wink of Stella Glitter Pen ~ Clear

Papers

Arches Aquarelle Watercolour Paper ~ 185gsm Cold Pressed

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Fourz Cardstock ~ Piglet

Stamps

Penny Black ~ 30-297 Sprinkles and Smiles

Challenges

Crazy4Challenges #468 ~ Celebrate

The Paper Girls #168 ~ Sparkle and Shine!

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