Have you embraced the simplicity of ink blending & Stencils? It has certainly made us look at our products differently and today I have some tips to take them a step further!

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I have to say that the cardmaking world made life easy for us when they introduced colouring and layering stencils. How fast and easy is it to add colour to, a simple, or even a complicated image and get the WoW factor, even if you can’t colour!

But, did you know that these stencils don’t always have to be used as intended? Today I thought I would put a couple of ideas to the test and see how the same stencil can look, when used differently.

Idea #1 – No shading

Okay, this idea was inspired by a jumper (sweater), yes, it has a cool coloured pattern and I adored the look of teal and orange together. But there wasn’t any shading, which is normally what I would do with stencils such as this.

I started by pressing the floral plate using a teal coloured ink, my thought was that this will give me more of a graphic style look.

I then came in with the stencils and added the bold orange and green colours, without any further shading. It was very easy to do, because I didn’t even have to think about which colours to mix for shading… I just made sure to get some good bold colour onto the cardstock.

I kept the sentiment very clean & simple, but a die cut sentiment would look fabulous here too!

Idea #2 – Forget the Plate!

Have you ever used colouring stencils without a press plate or even the stamp set? For this design, I used similar colours to the first card, and they couldn’t look any different. There are multiple stencils in this set and I simply ink blended them as intended, starting at number 1 through to 6.

And again, I did not shade these petals, but instead changed up the ink tones that I used on each stencil layer. This gave the flower some depth by having different coloured petals in each bloom. It was very quick and easy to do!

Not all stencils will be suitable for this technique, but it’s worth taking a look at your stash to see if you have something that will work.

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Are you going to try using your stencils in a unique or different way? If you do, I’d love you to share your creations with me at Social Media, don’t forget to link me @lostinpaper.

I hope you find some crafty time today,

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