Karen here, and it’s my turn to do a Project of the Week for the Repeat Impressions‘ blog. I am sharing ways to use stencils with stamps and stamps with stencils. I have purchased many of the inexpensive plastic stencils from a variety of sources and had fun experimenting with them to enhance Repeat Impressions great stamps.
My first card above features an open heart stamp that is actually a hot air balloon… 9114-I Heart Air Balloon. I cut off the bottom part leaving a nice open heart that I sponged various patterns from stencils in a variety of colors of Distress inks from Ranger. I used stencils from Tim Holtz, Crafter’s Workshop and one I made myself with acetate and a die from Spellbinders. I embossed the cardbase with an embossing folder from Darice and added the 1134-E Happy Valentine’s message stamped several times.
I love how this second card turned out with the peach colored distress ink, a Memory Box stencil background and the 5901-M Wings Negative stamp. The stenciled background shows through the wings on the stamp beautifully. I added the 9005-E Flutter By sentiment in black and layered the front piece on a black cardbase.
My last card also uses a Memory Box stencil and distress inks, along with fun stamps from Repeat Impressions. I turned the stencil to create the illusion of water in the 9712-Q Fish Bowl and paper pieced the 9716-H Fish. I added another fun sentiment, 9720-C Big Wish and layered onto a green cardbase.
If you have stencils and open stamps, try using them together for easy and fun cards.
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