Half-Year Stenciling

Hello Stamplings!

O jp[e tjos fomds upi we;;! Oops. In other words, I hope you are doing well! So many of you around the world have been dealing with terrible long heat spells and/or days to weeks of rain and I hope you find relief soon.  

Today we wrap up June with an illusive fifth Monday. That means we get to play with S = Stencils on the I.D.E.A.S. Calendar. I forget about using them, but when I do have a play, then I want to play with ALL of them!

Onefer

Nothing original here as far as design, but I'm delighted with this NBUS balloon stencil from Waffle Flowers which I got on sale not too long ago. I chose three CP ink pads next to each other in the drawer and I love how summer-y and ice-cream-y they turned out. 

Hammy and Stanley added schplatters by clapping water all over the panel from their perch on the window sill. I added a black card base and sediment banner heat-embossed in white because I thought the black made the colors bop. (🎶Bop with me baby allll night long ...🎶) I say "bop," because, like, you know, you don't want to use the word pop around balloons. Duh.

Challenges

Addicted to Stamps and More: Die cuts or stencils.

Just Us Girls: Stencil week.

Seize the Birthday: Add a silhouette or anything goes.

Twofer

This week marks the half-way point in the year, so it's not too early to get serious about Christmas cards, even if it is summer. I mail my cards in November, so that gives me four months to make a coupla hunnert cards. Great, now I'm sitting here in a full-on flop sweat! Why'd I have to bring it up?!

This heart tree stencil is NBUS from 2021. It's called "Heart of Christmas." I blended ink through the stencil and then the lads used their winkers, but that schplotched the blended ink around, so then I went over the hearts with colored pencils to reblend. Happily, that did not remove the schparkle, but you'll have to take my word for it.😊

I'm playing in the June Rudolph Days Challenge where the brief is Anything Christmas Goes.

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I.D.E.A.S. Calendar:  S = Stencils

You will find a linky tool below for you to share your stencil creations this week which might help lift someone out of their creative schlump!

I love seeing what you create, visiting you, and pinning your design! Thank you so much to everyone who visited and linked last week! Mwah! 

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To my American friends, Happy 4th of July! May our hard-fought democracy and our precious constitution stand for another 249 years! 🎆🌭🍦

Enjoy your week! No, seriously, enjoy! LITS!* 

 

*Life is too short!

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