Or both, I hope. I used a favorite Pinkfresh Studio floral hot foil plate, coordinating coloring stencil, and die to create a card today for the current Flower Challenge.
As much as I like coloring with Copic markers, coloring with stencils is quite a bit quicker, and there’s not much room for error.
I chose a very different color palette this time: aqua blue and shades of browns, but I quite like it. I foiled the image in gold, then colored it with stencils before using the die to cut it out.
It’s quite easy to add a bit of dimension with the stencils by using a heavier touch with the color to the base of the leaves or the centers of the flowers. I also added three gold pearls to the centers of three flowers.The florals and sentiment which I gold embossed and die cut to create the banner were arranged on a diamond cover plate, with a thin brown border on a beautiful piece of textured aqua paper that I found in my stash. The sentiment and banner die are by The Greetery.
This is a great challenge, and I’m sure I’ll be back with some other entries before it closes.
Lovely card, I like the raised floral spray. With all this talk of stencil colouring, I think you’ve inspired me to pull out a floral set I received as a “thanks for your order”, after all isn’t this 100 days the time to try a new to you technique?! 🙂
Your card design is wonderful, Karen, and the soft colors you used are perfect for the caring sentiment. That coverplate die is fabulous and I love the borders behind it to tie in with the flowers.
Really pretty, I have found layering stencils to be a bit stressful, while Copic coloring is relaxing.
One word my friend–gorgeous!
How lovely, Karen! I usually like bright colors but I am quite smitten with this wonderful combo of browns and aqua! And you are right, the stencils are a wonderful change up from using Copics or watercolor paints. Thanks so much for sharing this beauty over at The Flower Challenge!
Love these colors together! So glad creators experiment with “unnatural” combinations!
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