Cas Mix Up February

Hello

I saw some daffodils in flower on my walk this morning, so that has brought me some cheer on this grey day. I hope the launch of as new challenge over at CAS Mix Up Challenge  will also bring you some cheer. The months go by quick don't they? Our February challenge is a stencil one and it is hosted by Nancy. She would like us to use heat embossing with our stencils.

Our guest designer this month is Arlene from Sunday Stamper Papercrafts, do click on the link and pay her a visit.

My card today uses a stencil that was a gift from the wonderful Mia. I have been waiting to use it ever since I got it. I cut my panel first with a stitched rectangle die and then drew round the stencil with a fine liner pen. Keeping the stencil in place I squished my versamark ink pad through the stencil to ink up the small flowers. I used ultrafine wow red embossing powder doing each flower individually. Then I remembered that I had a wow embossing pen somewhere and was able to use that. This enabled me to do individual petals so I could use 2 colours. I also layered the embossing 3 times. 

I did find that this left the edges looking a bit ragged so I filled in the gaps between the petals with the fine liner. This tidied it up and gave a more bold look. as it was important to keep this card CAS and I didn't want to cut the panel I mounted it on a 7x5 inch white cardbase, stamped a sentiment in black and matted my panel on some black paper.

I was actually quite pleased with how this worked. I think it is the first time I have used this technique and it is really rather effective, so thanks for this challenge Nancy. don't forget there are some links to some technique videos on the blog.

You have until 24th to join us. I hope to see you there.

Supplies:

Ink: Uni Pin Fine liner pen 0.3

Stencil: LJ927 Dreamweaver

Stamps: Sentiment stamp by Woodware

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog today, I really appreciate it.