Beautiful Day

I picked up this Hero Arts stencil a while ago, and finally got to put it to use.

I love the bold design, and really didn't want to detract from it, so I kept this fairly simple.

The stencil was inked up with a whole bunch of yellow and orange distress inks.

Then I used a sponge dauber to ink up just the center and added some gold embossing powder there.  I actually started with clear, and did a couple layers of clear embossing before the gold....this gives it a bit more body and texture and puffs it up a bit more.  You'll see some sparkles in the embossing, that's because I was at my friend JJ's when I made this and she had a home brewed embossing powder which mixed two types of gold and some clear.



The sentiment is from a previous My Monthly Hero kit, and I added a bit of woodgrain paper to frame the sentiment.

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Hero Arts Stencils, Large Flower

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Ranger Distress Ink Pad, Scattered Straw

Ranger Distress Ink Pad, Mustard Seed

Ranger Distress Ink Pad, Fossilized Amber

Memento Ink Pad, Tuxedo Black

VersaMark Ink Pad

Stampendous Embossing Powder, Detail Gold

Judikins Embossing Powder, Egyptian Gold

Ranger Super Fine Embossing Powder, Clear