Tuesday, April 23, 2013

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. 


17 comments:

  1. OMG!! Fantastic cards!! Love them both! So cool how you got 2 totally different looks with the same stencil! Awesome job :)

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  2. OMGEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! THESE ARE GORGEOUS LADY!!!!! I am TOTALLY putting these in my store!!! ;)
    Love ya,
    Emma:)

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  3. Nikki ~ SHUT THE FRONT DOOR! Your brilliant! Yes ~ BRILLIANT! I LOVE this idea and how both of your cards turned out! OMG!! Okay looking for the order button for the "already" made stencil ~ can't find it! LOL! Seriously this is so CLEVER I can't take it!!! LOVE, LOVE LOVE this!!!

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  4. REALLY!!!??? could you be anymore AWESOME!!!! this rocks!

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  5. SO flippin' COOL! You rock! What an AWESOME idea!!!

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  6. OMG seriously!???? You are so awesome! This is FANTASTICAL!!!!!

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  7. OK...def doing this!!! What an awesome idea! I love that whole honeycomb/hexagon look. Great cards, Nikki!

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  8. Wow...gorgeous cards...great idea!

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  9. You are AMAZING!! This is flipping brilliant! I wished I could get trapped up inside that brain of yours! Love, Love, LOVE!!! Great job! Hugs, Leanne

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  10. WOW!!! Now why didn't anyone else think of this before?!?!?!? Seriously AMAZING idea!!! LOVE it!!!

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  11. UR Amazing!!! This is really cool!! You soooo ROCK!!!!

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  12. What a great idea. TFS.
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  13. Nikki, these are AWESOME!!! Love these so much!!!

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  14. Great cards!!Very pretty,Love the die...

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  15. You are a clever one :D I love this idea. Just remembered there is template plastic for quilting or shrink plastic also thinking what trash plastics I have on hand that would work for this. Great job! Freezer paper irons onto fabric and peels off...wonder if it would work on paper?

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