Lots of really good ideas using stencils. I often forget those stenciled backgrounds can carry a whole card without much more ado needed. Thanks for sharing these!
Stencils and oxide inks, my favorite "tools" right now! Thank you for sharing the beautiful backgrounds you created! Love the color combinations! Thanks for sharing your talent with us!
Looked for ways to use stencils and found your video. Thank you for the wonderful techniques. Stencils are way more affordable than the background stamps that are coming out today and the die cuts on the market.
Thank you Courtney. I've really enjoyed watching your presentation - I like your relaxed delivery, your techniques were excellent and gave me some ideas, and your cards were lovely.
I have a playlist name "research" for videos that I loved so much that I want to save them for future reference. YOU just made it to that list. Thank you so much for making these techniques look so easy and worth a try.
I didn't think mixing glitter with texture paste would do anything. But it gave it a bit of a pearlized look to it. I'm gonna go try that right now. Thank you for these great tips!
That peachy color embossing powder provides a lovely background against the ivy. I liked all the stencil ideals you showed. Especially the ones with the colored texture paste.
Neat ideas with stencils especially putting ink on the stencil and doing the paste afterwards and when you mixed glitter into the paste. Thanks for your great ideas.
Thank you for sharing, Courtney! They are definitely techniques I will try. New to stencilling so always looking for creative ideas from crafters like yourself.
Putting ink on the stencil first is so smart! I've never seen that before 😊 ~ I have an unrelated question tho: what's the music playing throughout? I love it 🙂
thanks so much. To be honest, I don't remember lol this one was of the first videos I ever created. For some reason it has been getting a lot of traffic lately.
Absolutely lovely. Thank you. Quick question. I struggle with getting Versamark sticky ink off my stencils. How do you clean your stencils, or stamps, for that matter?
For my stencils, I usually just use warm water and just a drop of dish soap. For my stamps, I typically just use a damp stamp shammy, but for certain inks (of if I forget to clean them right away), I like the Ranger Clear Stamp cleaner.
There are tons of different types of inks out there. I typically use Distress inks for ink Blending and watercolor. Rarely will I use them for stamping.
Have you used Nuvo Glitter paste with stencils? If so, how do you clean it off your stencil? I put it in warm water right away and it still have paste on it. Thank you.
Yes I do use that as well. This is a very old video and I have a more recent stencil video if you are interested ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pZhfz6rlVb0.html I clean my stencils with glimmer paste with warm water and a drop or 2 of dish soap. It typically takes off all the paste.
All of the links are on my blog. This video was one of my first so I didn’t exactly do things right lol. I have a newer stencil video with these techniques plus more with all of the appropriate links if you are interested. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pZhfz6rlVb0.html
TRANSLATION: “Excessive consumption of white paper and yellow tape.” Thought I’d translate for everyone and put my many years of grade school, high school and 4 years of college French classes to use, as this is probably the only time I have had the opportunity to put it to use since! I take it she’s an avid recycler and wants you to be one as well!😉 Sierra0209 I’m sure she reuses her yellow tape and white paper for other creations off screen when not filming her work as everything must kept clean and orderly for the benefit of her viewers. Though I admire your concern and care for our beautiful 🌎 God bless🙏🏻♥️
