Been a couple of weeks, but around other things, finally managed to complete another few of my UFO's.The three backgrounds are all from Clarity stencils, as are two of the stamped images.
I made the backgrounds quite a while ago, while I was just playing around with stencils, ink & brushes, and they've sat waiting for inspiration to strike. Which it finally did.
This Clarity stencil is called Flare Frame, and is one of their many 7" square ones, which are a perfect fit for their 7" stencil card, which also comes in other sizes. The design part of the stencil comes out at 5½",so you have matting & layering ability.
It also has the central square 'mask' so you can blank that area off, if you wish.
This first one was done by adding ink through the stencil and letting it dry. I re-taped the stencil in place, then applied Translucent stencil paste (Sweet Poppy) over it, which was sprinkled with glass microbeads, for texture.
Being a bit messy, I'd got some ink & paste into the central aperture, which I'd masked off, and was partly why it got put to one side, while I figured out what to do with it.
Finally had the idea to mount a small stamped panel over it, and went with that for all three.
The owl stamp is also by Clarity, and actually has 3 owls on it, but that made it too large for the centre, so I masked off an owl on the right, as that was the easiest one to cover up, inked, removed the tape and stamped.
Colour was added with Prismacolor pencils,and some Distress Ink in Stormy Sky sponged over the edges, after I'd trimmed it down to a 3" square.
To add all the panels, I die cut a square of white fun foam slightly smaller than the panel,and used that to give the image a little dimension.
These were the images I selected for the panels, the Owl & Lion stamps are both Clarity, the Tree image is from Inkylicious, called Daydreamer. I had to trim off parts of the image for this to get it down to the right size.
I also added some stamped grasses along the bottom of the Lion image, from a set by Indigo Blu called Nature 1.
This one uses another Clarity stencil, this time called Circles Box. Same size & details as the previous one. This just had ink added through the stencil. The Lion stamp also has three images, so again I masked off one on the right as before.Chose a pale purple cardstock as my mat, and mounted onto a 6" square card base.
Again, ink through the stencil and then I found a closely matching cardstock for the mat.
The image was stamped in Archival Coffee, which I also blended around the edges.
This Inkylicious stamp has the person, tree and ground as one stamp, then there's a separate small bird flock, and the word Daydreamer.
All three are mounted on a 6" square card blank.
Left them blank at the moment, so I can use them for any reason later.
Entering this in the Crafty Cardmakers Challenge, Add some Texture.
Crafty Creations Challenge, Anything Goes.
