Art Journaling with Shari Carroll: Two Ways to Use Coordinating Stencils
Welcome, everyone!! It’s Shari here with another entry in my circle journal! I’m welcoming Spring with this bold and beautiful Folk Art stamp and stencil set from Hero Arts. Hero Arts are celebrating 50 years in the craft industry! How fabulous is that?! We would like to wish Hero Arts a very Happy Anniversary and Best Wishes for many more years to come!
I’ve used the back of the stencils to get the watercolor effect for the background. Then, I used them as intended for ink blending and coloring the image.
This is the 4th entry I’ve made in this journal, and using these bright colors of Spring makes me happy.
Check out my video below to see how this was created. Enjoy!
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One Stamp, Five Ways: Hey Sweetie
Hi friends! Happy Sunday! And Happy Easter! Please join me in welcoming back special guest Suzy Plantamura with some seriously SWEET inspiration! Read on and enjoy!
Hi friends! I’m here with my monthly “one stamp, five ways” guest post using one of the brand-new stamp sets from the Be Bold release called Hey, Sweetie. The name alone had me, but the images pushed me over the edge haha. I love sweets. Stamp sets with sweets in them are so fun to use because I can color sweets while eating sweets and it doesn’t get better than that. I’d like to say they curb your appetite for sweets, but I would be lying. Let’s get started and I hope you have some sugar near bye!
When I colored the images in this stamp set, I was watching the kids baking show, so I went for a sophisticated sundae with this stamp. I stamped it with black ink and colored it with Copic Markers. I used three colors, so it looked like a pistachio, strawberry, chocolate sundae. I think that is called Spumoni! I die-cut it out and did some decorating with white Nuvo Drops over the whip cream and Tonic Crystal Glaze over the Glass portion. I also stamped and colored four strawberries and a cherry.
I made the background with the new Lattice Tile Stencil. I applied Sprout ink to the top, Guava ink to the center, and the new Clay ink to the bottom, keeping the colors soft. I die-cut it with the A2 Thin Frame Die and attached it to a pink cardstock card base. I stamped a sentiment from the stamp set with black ink. I arranged the sundae adding the cherry to the top, the strawberries, and the sentiment on the front of the card. I added some white Rainbow Splash drops around the background.
My favorite ice cream dessert is a root beer freeze, so I turned this stamped image into one. I used Copics to color it. I also stamped a few cherries and the cookies sticking out of the other sundae. I used Tonic Crystal Glaze over the glass portion and the cherries, Golden Sunset Glitter over the bubbles, and white Nuvo Drops over the whip cream.
I die-cut a piece of patterned paper from my stash with the A2 Thin Rectangle Die and attached it to a white card base. I then die-cut an oval out of white cardstock and white Pawsitively Velvet paper using the Nested Oval Dies. I attached the velvet one over the cardstock one so you can’t see the paper underneath it. I added all the stamped images, tucking the straw cookies under the whip cream. I added a sentiment stamped with black ink over the glass.
For the background of this card, I used the new Streaming Embossing Folder as I thought the lines in it looked like the lines on the cupcake liner. I embossed it using pink cardstock. I then rubbed a white ink pad over the backside so the lines in it were indented instead of raised. This lightened the pink color and gave it some variation in color. I then added a little bit of darker pink with a Copic and used a pink colored pencil inside the lines to accent them. I love embossing folders as there are so many ways to use them.
I stamped the cupcake on a stitched rectangle die with black ink. I colored it in with Copics and used a pink glitter pen to add some highlights and to color in the bow. I used a grey Copic to add a ground, so it wasn’t just floating. I attached the rectangle to the card background. I die-cut a frame using the new A2 Nesting Frames dies from yellow cardstock and added that over the frame. I stamped a sentiment with black ink and attached that to the bottom of the rectangle. Last I used some PPP Party Swirls clay confetti on the cupcake and some SSS Zest Confetti Sequins around the sentiment.
I made the background using the new Tiled Art Stencil. I only used the largest and the smallest of the four sizes of stencils. I applied Guava ink to the largest size just along the edges and then Carnation Ink to the smallest. I die-cut a white cardstock and acetate circle using the Circle Thin Frame Dies. I attached bendable foam tape to the inside of the acetate circle and then poured some Gina K. Designs Micro Disco Ball Sequins over the white circle. I attached the acetate one over the white one and glued it to the top of the front of the card.
I stamped a few of the cherries, blueberries, and strawberries with black ink and colored them all with Copic markers. I arranged them around the circle gluing them going in all different directions to create a fruity wreath! I added some of the new Pawsitively Dazzling Gems around the inside of the wreath. I stamped a sentiment using the stamp set and attached that to the center of the shaker window. I die-cut a banner using the new Airy Greetings Dies and stamped a sentiment on it using the You Rock stamp set (cut it apart so I could stamp it horizontally. I attached that to the bottom of the card.
I saved my favorite and most time-consuming card for last. I first stamped the 3 candy images from the stamp set randomly over a piece of white cardstock. I started coloring them in with Copic markers, but I recently filled a lot of my markers, and I made a mess here and there! Instead of throwing it out and starting over, I decided to stamp all the candy pieces and die-cut them out with the matching dies. I colored them all again, this time using pencils (PTSD) and glued them over the ones on the card I ruined. I like them better this way as the shadows I added with a grey Copic make it look more dimensional.
I stamped “happy birthday” using the new Bestie Bracelets stamp and die in black ink and attached it to the bottom of the card with foam tape behind it. I then added LOTS of the new colors of Pawsitively Dazzling Gems around the candy.
And that, my friends, is how to make someone crave some sweets! With this Hey, Sweetie stamp set, you can make all kinds of yummy treat cards for all the sweeties in your life. I had so much fun making all these! Thanks for visiting today! –Suzy
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Thanks so much for stopping by, and thanks to Suzy for being our guest!
