Stamped Flower Card

Once in awhile I just have to take some time out of all the craziness in my life lately and play. I bought Thursday a couple of stencils and stamp sets and had to use one of the stencils and one of the stamps.

I tinted moulding gel with acrylic ink and used it to stencil with. Once that was dried I went and sprayed with my homemade color wash. Then after it sat for a couple of minutes I took a paper towel to rub the excess off. The green panel is a bubble play piece. It doesn't show up but the background actually shimmers because I had tinted the bubbles with glimmer mist.  I stamped with Tuxedo black ink on a scrap piece of cardstock and then cut out by hand my stamped image in a shape. Then I colored it with my metallic colored pencils which I recently found. I inked the edges of it with gold ink. I felt like the card needed something so added the ribbon at the bottom. It really makes the stamp image pop.

I had too much gel on my brush when I stenciled so the stencil stuck to the cardstock and in places part of the top layer of cardstock ripped. I think I like though the distressed look that it gives. I definitely like this stencil and can see a lot of possibilities using it. I also like the flower stamps and I think the set will see a lot of use.

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