Hello and welcome, it’s Angie here today with a quick easy clean and simple holiday card featuring the new Holly Wreath stencil and the Merry Christmas Wave die.
I love stenciling, especially with pastes, but often I don’t have time to let them dry as I need a card quickly. So this is when I will use inks and ink blending tools with the stencil. Often the look I get with just ink is just too flat for me, so I will take colored pencils and a white gel pen to add darker colors and highlights with the white pen.
Here’s another look at my card:
If you look closely you can see that I added darker greens and turqoise pencil to the leaves and green areas and then I took a red watercolor marker and colored in the berries a dark red. Lastly I took the white pen and added highlights to the areas across from the darkest spots.
Next I cut the Merry Christmas sentiment from white card stock and colored the background piece with the same ink I used initally on the stencil. This die is great because you get all the separate letters too that you can use on a separate card in the future! Lastly, I added gold jewels around the card. Here’s one last look:
I hope you like my stenciling accents and will give this technique a try. It really helps the image pop and makes stenciling even more fun.
Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting my friends!
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