Wednesday, 14 December 2016

ARTplorations Stencil Blog Hop

 

Today I'm am thrilled to be part of the ARTplorations Stencil Blog Hop. We are getting together with a bunch of the STAMPlorations girls to celebrate Shery's amazingly beautiful ARTplorations stencils. You can find the main blog hop post over on the STAMPlorations blog. There will be stencil inspiration over on the blog for a whole week and the fun starts today.

To be honest, I didn't use to craft very much with stencils, I could never really get my head around what to do with them. However, this all changed after I found the ARTplorations stencils and the incredible inspiration over on the STAMPlorations blog. These days I love to grab a stencil from time to time and create some beautiful patterns. Often I use them for backgrounds, but today I decided to make them the star of the show. I used one of the new ARTplorations stencils called Circular One, which creates the most stunning pattern. I thought creating a rainbow coloured pattern using Distress Inks would look striking against a black and white version of the same stencil. I also used CUTplorations dies for my card - the largest one of the Luggage Tag Nesting Dies for the tag, Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectangle dies for the background and Amazing Word die for the sentiment. 


Card: 250 gsm white card
Stencil: ARTplorations Circular One
Stamps: STAMPlorations Bold Sentiments: Hashtag Authentic
Ink: Distress Inks Mustard Seed, Wild Honey, Abandoned Coral, Broken China, Wilted Violet, Peacock Feathers, Twisted Citron, Black Soot, Tsukineko Memento Tuxedo Black
Other: Glossy Accents



17 comments:

Tink said...

Love the stencil!

cm said...

Karola, you always create the coolest, most amazing designs with STAMPlorations products, and this stencil card is no exception! Soooo fabulous!
~carol

Dee Earnshaw said...

Awesome card - love the artsy feel to this:)

*Vicki* said...

Brilliantly put together design with the use of the stencil! Love the soft colored tag mixed with the black and white to pop it out!! Thanks for sharing!

Becca Cruger said...

Love the duality of the dark and the bright!

jordanbev5@yahoo.com said...

What a colorful card and fabulous use with the stencil.

Tanja said...

love the pop of color against the black and white background

Craftyfield said...

The contrast is striking with the black and white against the soft colours!

Mary Holshouser said...

Very pretty card.
Love the color interaction.
thanks for sharing.

arlsmom aka Lynda said...

Fabulous project...love the color contrast with the black on one side...

McStamper said...

What a fantastic project. Love the pretty colors with black.

JenniferE said...

so pretty! Love the bright colors against that black panel!

Preeti D. (aka Dutt Preety) said...

wow! such a pretty card :)
cheers
preety

Helen Gullett said...

What a fantastic card with thise stencils and colors.

Lili Sulastri said...

Lovely.

Jane said...

Fabulous x

Sue D said...

Very cool with the rainbow of colors next to the black.