Sunset Silhouettes

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The Wildflower stencil from the brand-new Visible Image collection is now one of my absolute favourite stencils.  It’s absolutely perfect for silhouettes too.  I used it together with the Fly High stamp set, also from the new release.

To begin, I made my sunset background by spraying a half sheet of A4 card with Distress Stain Sprays in Mustard Seed, Picked Raspberry, Chipped Sapphire and Dusty Concord, adding water sprays to get the inks to blend.  A few sprays of Distress Spritz Wilted Violet were added to the top portion.

For the first layer of silhouettes, I blended Memento Tuxedo Black through the stencil.

Next, I stamped the text and small butterflies around the panel.

After letting the inks completely dry, I blended a little black ink along the bottom of the panel.  I then flipped the stencil and applied black Distress Grit Paste, washing the stencil immediately in hot, soapy water.

The paste was still wet when I covered it with Black Sparkle embossing powder and heat-set.  The paste and powder bubble up and create fab texture!  Some of the powder also stuck to the blended ink along the bottom of the panel but I was happy with that.  I later stamped another small butterfly and embossed with the sparkle powder too.

One of the reasons that I like to do my spraying at the start with a larger panel is that any offcuts are the perfect colour match for using with sentiments, which I did here and backed with black glitter card.

To finish off the card, I added dots of Platinum Stickles all around the panel.

I edged the panel with a black marker pen and simply attached to a white card blank.


 

 


Location: Fareham, UK

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