Wednesday 29 January 2014

Playing with ink daubers

For day 2 of the Stenciled class, I was inspired by Kristina Werner who used the Tim Holtz Splatters stencil to create a very colourful card. While using this same stencil for my day 1 card, I thought that the splatters might work well as artsy flowers.



I applied the colours using my new Hero Arts daubers and used an old embossing plate as a stencil for creating the stems and tiny leaves. To create the flower hearts I used the new HA Dark Quartz ink, a sponge dauber and some of the smaller openings in the stencil. To finish the card off, I used some sequins, Glossy Accents and a sentiment from a Hero Arts stamp set. After rounding the top corners, I adhered the white panel to a dark blue card, cut from Core'dinations cardstock.

I'm not completely happy with how this card turned out, but my husband tells me I'm being too hard on myself (he really likes this card). And at least I had fun creating it!

I'm linking my card up for the following challenges:
CAS-ual Fridays - #126 Colour blocks
Addicted to CAS - #30 New

12 comments:

  1. Marianne, this is awesome. I love what you've done here and the colors are so cheerful. I've run across so many people this week on Blogger and Splitcoaststampers who have taken a stencil class this week. Sure sounds like fun.

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  2. That's really great!
    We're our own worst critics!

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  3. Your husband is right - a beautiful card! I love the idea and also how you made it work!

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  4. Wonderful, bright and beautiful colours Marianne! Great technique too - those glossy accents finish the card up brilliantly! Thanks for playing along with us at CAS-ual Fridays Challenge ;-)

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  5. Another fabulous card from the class Marianne. Love the bright combination of colors. And your sequins are the perfect finishing detail. Note to self, use sequins more often! :) Loll xx

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  6. Awesome inking Marianne - love the splash of vibrant colours! Your husband is right - this is a fabulous card! Thank you for joining us at ATCAS - hope we will see you next time too - Sylvia x

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  7. What a clever idea…love how vivid and colorful the flowers are. Thanks for joining us at A Blog Named Hero.

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  8. Hi Marrianne what a clever idea and the result is fantastic love the use of the bright colors for the splatters. Thanks so much for joining us at ATCAS and good luck.

    Marie

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  9. Bedankt voor je reactie op mijn blog kom even bij jou kijken. Mooie kaart hoor gaaf gedaan. Enne leuk he die onlineclasses heb er veel van opgestoken.

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  10. This is really cool. Love the fresh modern look, Liz x

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  11. A super original way to look at this stencil Marianne. Love it. x

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  12. What super use of colour Marianne, really beautiful work.

    B x

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