Pinpricks & Papercuts Crafting Event

Kristina used some beautiful products she designed for Concord and 9th to create this stunning card. She stamped the leaves background and flower with black ink and colored them in using the coordinating stencils. The gold frame and die cut gold sentiment add a wonderful shine to the rich colors! Watch her video tutorial at the K Werner Design blog.

Recently I posted card ideas that use Ink Blending techniques (click here if you missed it) and the popularity of that technique has expanded to stencils because it’s so easy to use the same brushes, ink pads and paper that you ink blend with to create beautiful stenciled designs. Stencils are very versatile, you can create backgrounds, design focal images and there’s even stamps and dies that have coordinating stencils as an alternative to coloring them in with pencils or markers and there’s also stencil pastes for texture and shine. So, today let’s be inspired by some wonderful stenciled card ideas.

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Mindy used stencils and lots of different colors of ink for her yummy cupcake cards. She also used a masking technique to have different colors on the same frosting. Don’t you love the rainbow slimline? She also stenciled the streamers and added shimmer paste for sparkle. Watch her video at the Scrapbook and Cards Today blog.

Gina created bold wavy backgrounds with stenciling, stamping flower silhouettes and adding sentiments in black over top. Notice the flower stamp is the same but by changing the colors and layout of the backgrounds the cards are still very different. I spotted these on the Gina K Designs Instagram page.

Don’t have the perfect pattern paper, no problem, make your own with stenciling! This sweet honey card used layering stencils to create a beautiful flower background. It’s finished off with a stamped honey jar, bee, extra flower and sentiment. Learn more at the Catherine Pooler blog.

Galina created a trendy postage style card using dies to cut the stamp shapes and filled each section in with stenciled designs. This darling sewing theme is accented with stamped cancelations and gold die cut notions. Take a closer look at the Waffle Flower blog.

Carly made a clean and simple card using flower stamps, coloring them with Distress Oxide inks and the coordinating stencils. I love how only some of the flowers are colored, it gives a nice graphic look! Find more info on the Carly Tee blog.

If you don’t have a stencil you can create your own with dies like Bobbi did for this pretty butterfly card. She cut the butterfly dies from thin copy paper and used that as a die, over lapping some of the butterflies for added interest as well as some splatter. What a terrific DIY background! Find all the details at the Honey Bee Stamps blog.

This stunning Iris card from Anna shows just how realistic you can get with layering stencils! She placed her flowers over a stamped and die cut background with some subtle ink blending and a pretty stamped sentiment with gold heat embossing added. She breaks it all down at The Ton blog.

There’s such a soft ethereal look on this floral card from Anna. She stamped the flowers in pink using stencils to color them in and then ink blended pink onto vellum paper and die cut them all out, adding a bold stamped and die cut sentiment in black. Find her directions at the Pinkfresh Studio blog.

Add a fun and colorful background to your stamped cards using stencils. Sandi used shades of teal inks to ink blend over a circle stencil to go behind her adorable bunny eating ice cream stamped scene made with products from Simon Says Stamp. Find all the details at the Sandi Maciver blog.

Most of the cards we’ve looked at today used ink but this gorgeous card from Miriam uses stencil paste. She inked a black background, placing the rose stencil over top adding gold glitter paste and then traced around the flowers for more definition. Find her step by step directions at the Ranger Ink blog.

The pretty all over stenciled patterns on these cards from Carissa are the star of the show with some added stamped and die cut sentiments. Notice how she also cut one in an arch and matted the other panel, adding faux stitching on both, this adds just the right finishing touches. Take a peek at the Sprinkled with Glitter blog. 

I hope you’ve found some inspiration and fun techniques to give stenciling a try for yourself!

-Heather

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