Amazing Friend

I started following the instructions for Barbara’s project that came with Clarity New Design Club Stencil for July, but as you can see, I went off ‘piste’ before long.

To begin, I added some of my favourite rainbow Oxides (Festive Berries, Carved Pumpkin, Mustard Seed, Mowed Lawn, Salty Ocean and Wilted Violet) to stencil #134 on a piece of copy paper.

Next, I trimmed stencil card to the same size as the stencil, spritzed it lightly with water, laid it over the inky side of the stencil and burnished with a large baren to transfer the colour.

I then reattached the stencil with low tack tape to create a hinge.

I used stamps from the Sam’s Shapes It’s a Mixed Bag set in the same colours of Distress Oxides to add interest through the stencil and removed it.

I had a spare 2.5” circle of stencil card to hand, so added the same stamping to that. I also die cut a mat from black card using the 2.75” nested circle picot die and matted it up.

I then added one of the black Pergamano rub-on transfers from the Friendship Sentiments.

The background was trimmed all round, edged with a black Sharpie and added to the front of an A5 white card blank.

I couldn’t resist adding one of the Triangle People stamps (a recent purchase) in Jet Black Archival ink.

I coloured the image using Salty Ocean and Festive Berries Distress markers.

To finish, I added the sentiment topper to the card.