Watercolor Paste Stenciled Cards

Hi folks!  I was in the mood to do some experimenting over the weekend and pulled out a couple of my recent stencils - Receding Blocks and Geometric Circles.

Using mixed media paper, I applied embossing paste over each of the stencils, removed the stencil, and let the panel dry.

Once that was done, I used my Kuretake Gansai watercolors to color the paste.  The paste really soaks up the water/color and if you apply color too darkly, you can add water and blot to remove some, or deepen the color by adding more paint.

Fort this first two cards, I used the same Receding Blocks panel, but cut it apart to get two cards.  I wasn't super careful when painting these, so it's a less precise and a little more organic, but I really love the fresco like feel of the panels.  

The sentiment is from the So Many Sentiments set.

For the second card, I changed up the orientation and then added a sentiment from the No Words set which was popped up over the panel.

For the Geometric Circles Stencil, I changed up the color scheme and forced myself to slow down a bit so I could be more precise with the painting.  

This panel reminds me of tile.

The sentiment for this one is also from So Many Sentiments.

These really quite easy to create, and I really love the texture you get with the technique.

That's all for me today!  Thanks for stopping by!

*Affiliate Links in text to Neat & Tangled and below to Ellen Hutson

Neat & Tangled Stencils, Receding Blocks

Neat & Tangled Clear Stamps, So Many Sentiments

Neat & Tangled Clear Stamps, No Words

Neat & Tangled Stencils, Geometric Circles

Dreamweaver Embossing Paste, White, 4 oz.

Kuretake Gansai Tambi, 36 Color Set

VersaFine Ink Pad, Onyx Black

Neat & Tangled June Release and Giveaways - Day 4

It's the last day of June release reveals and today we're showing off my newest stencil and cover plate design, Receding Blocks.  Let's start with the stencil.

For this first card, I selectively inked the stencil using Altenew inks (Warm Sunshine, Orange Cream, and Autumn Blaze).  I used post it tape to mask off areas while I was inking and then just moved the pieces around from section to section.

The sentiment was created using the Journaling Alpha dies cut from adhesive backed foam, paired with a sentiment from So Many Sentiments embossed on a strip of black cardstock.

For this next card, I inked up the stencil using Limestone and Silver Stone Altenew ink.  Then I misted the piece with water and once it was dry, trimmed it down.

For the sentiment, I pulled out this older Hello die.  I die cut it three times, twice from white and once from dark gray cardstock, adhered them together and then to panel which was popped up on my card base.

Now onto the cover plate:

I feel like I always use cardstock with my cover plate cards and goodness knows I have enough patterned paper, so I put some of it to work.  For this one I went with more subtle patterns.  I finished it off with this hilarious hot dog image and sentiment from Elena's new mini, appropriate called, Hot Dog.

Doesn't that guy make you chuckle?  I had lots of extra pieces from the first card, and wanted to kind of amp things up, so I picked another bolder patterned paper and created another card.

The background had kind of a retro vibe for me, so I pulled out another older set, For the Record, and stamped the main image, coloring it with neutral Copics.

The image was then fussy cut and popped up over the background with foam tape.

That's all for me today.  Head on over to the Neat & Tangled blog to take a look at what the rest of the team created as well as to check out Elena's Hot Dog set.  You'll want to leave a comment there as Danielle is giving away today's featured sets to a lucky commenter.

I'm also going to be selecting some random commenters from this week's posts to win some of my new release goodies.  To be entered, leave a comment on any or all of my release week posts.  You can get some extra entries by heading over to my IG post today (@mprantner) and following the directions there.  I'll be announcing winners tomorrow morning.  Good luck!