Stencil Frenzy!!!!!! - Step By Step

Okay, for those that have seen my previous post, you will know how excited I am about one of the new Clarity Stencils called Tangle (you will need to read about it on my previous post if you missed it!)

This is the Tangle Stencil

My head is currently buzzing with what I can do with such a universal design inking, embossing, stamping, grunge pasting, glitter paste, the list is endless!

So the first Step By Step is this card

Here is a list of ingredients that I used (obvioulsy you can choose your own colours)

New Clarity Tangle Stencil

Square Honeycomb Stencil

Gelli Arts 6x6 Card Stock

Clarity Stencil Brushes

Large Hummingbird Stamp

Hummingbird Masks

Large Trumpet Flower Stamp

Trumpet Flower Masks

Black Micro Pen

Low Tack Tape

Promarkers

Clear Stardust Pen

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pads or Adirondack Inkpads

Black Adirondack Ink Pad

Post-it Notes

Take your Square Honeycomb Stencil and attach it to a piece of the 6x6 Gelli Arts card stock using the low tack tape

Then take you Post-it Notes in fill in the centre

Now remove the the Square Honeycomb Stencil leaving the Post-it Notes in place and attach your new Tangle Stencil. Take an inkpad colour of your choice (I chose Tim Holtz Salty Ocean) and apply the ink using the Clarity Brushes

When you are done, carefully lift the stencil to ensure that you have added enough colour

If you are happy with the result, remove the Post-it Notes, but leave the stencil attached

Next stamp the Large Hummingbird and Trumpet Flower in place and then cover with the Masks (as I was in a rush, I made my own)

Now place the stencil back over the top

Make sure that you do not have too much ink on your Clarity Brush and gentle brush over the white area and then remove the stencil

Now take your Black Micro Pen and create a wiggly/zig-zag border around the paler area

Now take your Promarkers or colouring in pens/pencils of your choice and add some colour. I chose: Green Shoot & Oasis for the Hummingbird and Budding Rose and Fresh Bloom for the Trumpet Flower

When you are finished, take the Clear Stardust pen and colour the Hummingbird to give him a gentle sparkle

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Here are the ingredients for the 2nd card:

New Clarity Tangle Stencil

Gelli Arts 6x6 Card Stock
Clarity Word Chain Stamps

Clarity Stencil Brushes

Clarity A4 Blending Mat

Low Tack Tape

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pads or Adirondack Inkpads

Post-it Notes

First choose the words you want to use from the various Word Chain sets and stamp onto the Post-It Note and trim down to create your masks

Next, attach your Tangle Stencil to your 6x6 Gelli Arts card stock using your low tack tape. Place your Word Chain Masks onto your card

 Cover with the stencil and check that they are positioned within the frame of the mask

Next choose a colour of your choice (I have chosen Tim Holtz Salty Ocean) and apply the colour in a diagonal pattern using your Clarity Stencil Brushes to create a stripe effect - I have done diagonal, but you could go from left to right or top to bottom

Left up the mask and see what it looks like

Now place the mask back down and choose a 2nd colour (I chose Tim Holtz Pickled Raspberry) and fill in the white areas using the Clarity Stencil Brushes and allow the colour from the first colour to blend slightly

When you are done, lift up the stencil to check that you have everything covered

If you need to add more colour, place the stencil back down and continue

When you are happy with the colour, remove the stencil and the masks

Rather than use a black ink pad I wanted to use the same colours from the ink pads I had used, but rather than just use one of the colours, I wanted it to be mixed, so I took my A4 Clarity Blending Mat and squidged some colour from each of the ink pads

Next, I mounted the words onto the handles and randomly stamped into the 2 different colours on the blending mat and mixing them up, I tested how it would look onto scrap paper first and when I was happy I stamped into the white areas

Well I hope that you have enjoyed the 2 projects above and more importantly the new Tangle Stencil, I know that this will be used in a lot of my upcoming samples.

All products are available from the Clarity website HERE or by following the links on the "Ingredients" list - some colours of inkpads/pens may not be available, but other options are available

Happy Crafting

Paul x