Offset Stenciling

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas.  It was extremely quiet here but still a very good day.  I've spent a lot of time in my craft room working ahead in my DT assignments and just plain playing.  Today I'm sharing three cards I created with what I'm calling offset stenciling.

This technique is similar to offset stamping but with the use of a stencil.  It's definitely easier to show than to describe.

I started with a background stencil, a panel of kraft colored cardstock and white pigment ink, applying the ink to the panel and allowing it to dry.  I cleaned off the stencil, placed it back over the panel at an offset to the original placement and then applied a layer of dye ink.  I really love the look this gives.  

In order to achieve the same color for my sentiment panel I swiped the white pigment ink onto a piece of the same kraft cardstock.  Once it was dry I then ink blended the dye ink over top, creating a perfect color match to the background.  I die cut the notebook card and heat embossed the sentiment in white.  I added a bit of twine, popped it up on the stenciled panel with foam tape, adhered it all to a white card base and then finished it off with some clear droplets.  

I created two other backgrounds using a darker dye ink but followed the same technique as above.

I switched out the notebook die in lieu of one that resembles a label.  In the first example I added a stacked gold die cut sentiment along with a heat embossed sub-sentiment.  In the card above I heat embossed my sentiment in gold.  I popped up the background panels when adhering them to white card bases and used gold pearls as accents.  

I really love these cards two of which I have already parted with, very reluctantly I might add.  Letting go of my favs is very hard for me.  LOL!

Supplies:

Hero Arts - Leaf and Berry stencil

Paper Trey Ink - really (really) old label and notebook dies 

The Stamp Market - Beyond Grateful stamp and die set

Technique Tuesday - Ali Thanks stamp set (sub-sentiment)

Fun Stampers Journey - gold pearls

Ranger - super fine gold embossing powder

white pigment ink

The Stamp Market - dye inks in Tropical Teal and Navy

Stay safe and healthy my friends!  

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Happy Crafting!

Jules