Plaids and Stripes Stencils: Ideas and Inspiration

 As stencils are flavour of the month with Clarity Crafts at the moment, I thought I would look back at the projects I completed using the Plaids and Stripes 8" x 8" stencils.  As usual, links to each project appear below each photo.

Combined with masking on a postcard (see HERE).

WOYWW 893/113: Last Day!

Welcome to the weekly sharing of desks which is WOYWW (What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday?), the brainchild of Julia, who kindly entrusted it to me to continue after the first 15 years of togetherness.  Please feel free to link up your desk and visit others' - we are a friendly bunch.

My desk shows some of the Clarity goodies which arrived for me lately as well as the usual affirmation cards.

Today is my last day at work before retiring for the second time.  I did handover with my successor yesterday and have two more lessons to teach and sets of books to mark.  After the post school staff get together I will be celebrating with a trip to the theatre to see Lord of the Dance - not very well planned given the England semi final!  I am hoping to catch up on BBC iPlayer when I get home without knowing the score.  Tomorrow I will be having a very long lie in, although I may also have to phone the dentist.  I had a deep clean last week and it seems to have set off one of my teeth.  I have had tooth ache since Sunday!

Off to Mum's on Friday and will do my visiting from there after we get back from our usual leisurely  breakfast at 'Spoons.  Stay safe and Happy WOYWW.

July Mid Month Challenge: Hot!

The mid month challenge for July over on Clarity Crafts Mini Makes & ATCs is a small piece of art work using a stencil with the theme of HOT! This is what I came up with.

Rainbow Wee Stencil Floral Swirls

I went with my favourite rainbow colours and used the edge of the stencil plate mate to add interest to this card.

Wee Floral Swirls on Kraft

I decided to work on Kraft card and use one of the Earth Element Card toppers for this card using the new Wee Floral Swirl Stencils.

Animals: Real or Imaginary

The prompt over on Try It On Tuesday is Animals Real or Imaginary so I thought these cute miniature cats and dogs would fit the bill.

Die cut a topper from Clarity stencil card using the largest nested hearts die.

Lay one of the abstract layout stencils across the topper and blend Kitsch Flamingo Distress in through the apertures.

Add touches of Picked Raspberry Distress ink, also using a Clarity stencil brush.

Stamp some of the Miniature Cats and Dogs images onto the topper in Black Soot Distress Archival ink.

Stamping directly onto the front of a 7” x 7” black card blank, add I and animals in Versamark ink. Heat emboss with silver embossing powder.

To finish, add the topper to the front of the card.

Wee Floral Swirl Stencil Panel Card

For my second sample using the Floral Swirl Wee Stencils, I went with a panel card.