Floral Bouquet

For today's post I created a floral bouquet against a stenciled background.

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MATERIALS USED

• Memory Box White Notecard
• Garden Vines Stencil No. 88523
• Forest Moss Distress Ink and Blending Tool
• Fresh Foliage Die No. 98502
• PoppyStamps Lorelai Leaf Die 839
• scrap of paper leftover from Memory Box Tinsel Collection, I think
• Frangia Bouquet Die No. 98568
• Squash Distressed Dots paper
• Texture Disperse Stencil No. 88507
• Prismacolor Pencil Olive Green

• tape the stencil down over the front of the notecard
• apply Forest Moss ink using a blending tool

• Adhere diecut Fresh Foliage to the card front

• Add the diecut Frangia Bouquet, using popdots on the flower blossoms 

• Add the diecut Lorelai Leaf on top of the other two pieces, using tiny popdots on some of the leaves

• To add some interest on the left margin, I used the Testure Disperse Stencil and an olive Prismacolor pencil.  I moved the stencil around and colored in the dots until I had a design I liked.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the new Memory Box stencils.  I'm playing with all sorts of ways to use them–inking, spraying, layering one stencil over another, and coloring inside a stencil for a hand-drawn look. I'm experimenting with lots of different materials and techniques.  Fun!  I hope you've gotten some stencils and have begun playing with them as well.

Happy Crafting!