Having fun with stencils :D

 This is my next creation for the Altenew Educator Certification Program. This time I have taken inspiration from the Celebration: Stencil techniques class I was so inspired by the many ways that the stencils were used. I thought I would challenge myself to use an Altenew stencil that I have in a way I had not thought of before. I used the graffiti scribble stencil and decided I wanted to try and make it seem a bit more like foliage for a background on a card. 

I started by ink blending a background on some water colour card stock. I used the following Altenew crisp dye inks for my card:

Blue: Dew drops, Aqualicious

Green: Firefly, Parrot

Pink: Blush, Puffy Heart, Magenta

Yellow: Fresh Lemon, Honey drizzle

To add even more depth and this is also part of one of the other lessons in this amazing class, I inked over a portion of the stencil as well on top of the kind of ink smooshed background this gives the revers affect of using the stencil to print with as I really like how it ended up looking. I only did this inking over the stencil in the bottom left where I knew I wanted to put my flower so it gave a bit more green colouring there.

I decided to go for the biggest flower that I have for this card and it is a set that I was a bit worried about using as the flower is so big but I think it really was just what this background needed. I can't wait to use this Build-a-Flower: Peony stamp set again as it is just such a statement flower.

The sentiment comes with the stamp set and just to finish this card off I sprinkled some Nuvo drops over it.

I hope you are all having a great week and staying safe.

 I am entering this card for the following challenges:

Crafty Creations - Anything goes

Mod squad - Flowers

Paper funday - Spring has sprung

Shopping our stash - Plant life

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Amy xx