DIY Stencil with MCT Button Dies :)

Hello! I have 2 cards to share today that I made using a stencil I created with the Stitched Button Dies from MyCreativeTime. I had first made a stencil with my go to Post-It paper and I really liked it...so I thought I'd make one that I could keep and use over and over. So I grabbed some packaging from a background stamp made a stencil. I just placed the two dies on it over and over until I got the look I was going for. Voila! A custom made stencil in just a few minutes! SCORE! :) Here is the first card I made with it...

Here I used my little sponge daubers to apply different Hero Arts Shadow Inks for a rainbow look. The trick is to pounce on the color so that the ink doesn't bleed under the stencil/mask. I stamped the greeting from the new Life Is Good set from MyCreativeTime. 

The people and the baby in the stroller are from the new We Are Family set from MyCreativeTime. And here is my second card using that same stencil/mask, but getting a completely different look by spray inking instead...

For this one, I went in a "messier" direction. :) I made my own spray ink with a Picked Raspberry distress ink reinker and a mini mister. I put a dropper full of reinker and a little water in the mini mister, and BAM, my own spray ink! I put my cardstock in a box {avoids a ginormous mess} and put the stencil/mask on top of it and sprayed until I got what I wanted color wise. Then I lifted up the mask and added some ink splatters as well...

The greeting and the curved arrow are from the new It's All About You set from MyCreativeTime. The other arrow is from the new You Are Here set. To finish off both cards, I added some black gems.

I hope you are having a FABULOUS day! Now...lemme go scrub this ink off my hands. ;)

♥ Nikki ♥ 

p.s. I used Ranger's Archival Jet Black ink...my all time favorite black ink.