Paper Crafter at large

My favorite training site for the Silhouette has a sister site that offers cut files called So Fontsy. I purchased two fancy fold cards in the Paper Cards category. This is a compilation of both of them. The bg fancy fold piece and sentiment with attached frame were cut on white layering weight cs. The color for the bg is tissue paper used to mop up leftover colorburst from weeks ago and is glued on then the slit cut with sharp scissors. Used glimmer gel through geometric stencil on bg and smeared on sentiment piece. Attached sentiment and added stitches.

Tip: Get yourself one of those fineline applicators. I got the 18 gauge one and added white acrylic paint with some water to thin it down. Made these stitches a breeze to create and they have more dimension then I can get with a gel pen.

I found a new to me challenge where a book is selected by hostess and you can use the book cover, the title or something in the story to inspire your creation. The cover called to me so I water colored the bg using black and two blues of re-inkers and a damp brush (Thanks to Kathy for the gift of brushes). Once dry I created the black cliffs with sharpie free hand, added in shadow with two gray copics and stamped in black ink some evergreens. Oh yes, made the moon first thing by creating a circle stencil with a punch and a scrape of cs then pressed Versa Mark and heat set clear powder as a resist, then used yellow ink pad sponged on through stencil once water color was dry. Glued on sentiment that had been cut on Silhouette in white cs. Mounted on fun foam and then white cs base.

Not sure you can see the faint yellow dot in the middle of the lake, but my husband was so impressed that I had created a shadow of the moon. In reality it is a finger print from when I was creating the moon resits. Maybe the oils in my hand caused the water color to turn yellow in that spot. What a great guy to think so highly of me. Man am I blessed.

Nothing like a ride in the saddle on a cool summers morning. This silhouette image was found on the internet and much loved by my husband. He likes his cards with no sentiments. I printed the image on the ink jet copier on white Vellum Paper. Smeared that through blue shimmer spray on the glass mat and sponged in some orange and purple ink pad. Mat layered on plum cs and mounted on black layer. All in on a white cs base.

Tip: The shimmer spray did show too much on the black base and riders so I used a baby wipe dampened to wet with alcohol to rub out the pooling. The mica stayed and shows a nice shimmer.

The colored paper was gifted to me by a stamp buddy (thanks Diana) and I wanted to try using colored pencils on colored paper. It was a fun project and I quite like the results. Once the image was stamped in black ink and colored I added white gel pen in areas for some pop. Mounted the elements all up and put them on white cs base. Sentiment and fern were cut on Silhouette and sentiment got heat embossed with black. The green layer got white embossing paste through knit stencil.

My stamp buddy Gerry taught me to look on the internet for free cut art using the searching term Coloring Books. Here is what I found. It had a moon with it but I edited to just the stars. After putting gesso on light weight white cs I added embossing paste through stencil cut with paper. Once dry I mopped sheet through color burst in gold sprayed with water on the glass mat. Next I used blue shimmer spray on glass mat to pick up color on the lower half of the piece. Better half wanted the stars to shine more so I put the stencil back down, pressed Versa Mark and heat set embossing powder in Platinum. Added the stars in the upper right with stencil and black marker then quicky glue pen and glitter. To make the lower stars white I used a gel pen. Rubbed outer edge with black ink pad and mounted on white cs base.

I am finding I really enjoy cutting stencils with Silhouette in 80 lb. white cs. They are multi use but not forever. The file is saved so I can cut again if I want but the love affair only last go long then I am on to the next best stencil I ever made. Email me if you want the svg of the star stencil