Hello & Thinking of You

Hello friends! Taylored Expressions is releasing new stencils and blender brushes today! The blender brushes are smaller, to fit into all the nooks and crannies of your stencils. Which is perfect for stencils where you use a multitude of colors. 

Sometimes when creating a stenciled background, I want a muted color and not something as bold and bright as white cardstock. Once the card base and diecut "hello" were created using plum punch cardstock. The process of going through my TE cardstock to find a color that coordinated, started. From past cards, plum punch & peaches and cream go so well together and have been some of my personal favorites, it was an easy decision to make. The stencil was secured over the panel using purple tape. Then using a variety of ink colors and blender brushes, the gradient rainbow was created. Once finished inking a background, the "hello" diecut was adhered to the card using foam adhesive. The crystals were added for a final embellishment. 

 

One of the great aspects of stencils is the ability to create a beautiful one layer card, that only takes one stamp to put in the mail. For this card, the inked background was created using the Delightful Daisy stencils and the new mini blender brushes. These smaller brushes allows you to apply ink to smaller areas using more than one ink color & get finer details, especially in florals. Once the background was ink blended, the sentiment was stamped in black ink, and a strip of lavender glaze cardstock was adhered to the bottom to help balance out the card. A few crystals were added for an embellishment. 

Head on over to the Taylored Expressions store and blog today, to see all of the wonderful new releases and sample!