I knew I wanted to use the colors for the Hand Stamped Sentiments Challenge, so when I came across of piece of glossy photo paper that had missed the file bin (I was actually tidying up) I added the blending solution to wet. Dropped in the three colors from reinker bottles and dabbed stencil brush till colors moved to my linking. The stencil of these birds was still on my work station so I decided to take Golda’s advice and practice more. Using black modeling paste and spatula I was able to set finer details and less bleeding by moving slower and using more of a gentle flicking instead of pushing. Added the pink with a paint marker only on the beaks and then glossy accents. Splattered gold water color, then trimmed down. Used round punch for corners and layered on black cs. Cut sentiment strip and stamped in black. Added gold twine and black ribbon.
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Try it on Tuesday: Inspired by a song I’m Just A Country Boy – Sung by Don Williams “I’ve got silver in the stars and gold in the morning sun”
Hand Stamped: Color cahallenge
As You Like It: Ribbon and why Ribbon is like slimline cards, not my thing. I have tons of colors and styles of ribbon just seldom use it. Plus it usually adds thickness, hence postage costs.
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Great job on the birds! Love the colors!
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This is beautiful. Wonderful colors and I love the bird silhouette design.
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Definitely worth the practice. The detail on your birds are very defined. Love the background, too.
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Very fun way to use a round stencil brush. I kept rubbing it off each time I moved to a new color.
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The flamingos look great against the lovely background.
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Perfect background for those amazing detailed flamingos.
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Your background colors are amazing! And your flamingoes look great, especially with the pink detail you added to their beaks. Beautiful card!!
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A lovely fun coloured card. Thanks for joining AYLI challenge. Elaine
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Fun card with a great background and stencilling
Thanks for joining in at TIOT
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Hi Bonnie. Thanks for leaving me a message on my blog. I thought i would pop on over to yours and see what you entered. I love these flamingos!! And I love the splatters :).
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Bonnie, this is beautiful! I love those colors and how you got more details with the stencil and modeling paste. You have me really, really wanting to get out my stencils and some pastes that I have and just play. Unfortunately, no time, yet.
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Wow – I love this – I don’t have black paste and seeing this shows me I need to get some. Thanks for sharing with us at HSS this week.
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Love your background! Makes the perfect panel for your silhouettes. Thanks for joining our challenge at Hand Stamped Sentiments.
Robbie
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WOW!! This is so cool! Thanks for explaining your technique and thanks for playing along with us at HSS!
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Love how you used the stencil to create the flamingos and the technique you used for the background. Thanks for joining us at Hand Stamped Sentiments.
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