Shabby Stenciling

Hi there, here I am, showing up a day late for my Frilly and Funkie design team piece.  Yesterday was the monthly Artistic Outpost blog hop so I didn't want to take any attention away from that and thought it was better to post this a day late.  Sue is our hostess this fortnight and she has challenged us to use stencils on our project.  LOL, if you read my blog, you know that's not a challenge.  I am another crafter who has developed (much later than most of you) an addiction to stencils.  I can't seem to make anything lately without using a stencil in some sort of way.  

It's Frilly week so I wanted to craft in the shabby chic style.  I cut a card sized piece of Ranger Specialty Stamping Paper because I wanted something strong enough to stand up to embossing paste and distress stains and not warp.  Using a Prima stencil, I spread white Wendy Vecchi embossing paste over the card stock and let it semi dry.  Then I laid the stencil over it again and sponged on some embossing ink and sprinkled on Weathered White embossing powder.  When I heated it to melt the EP, I guess the embossing paste wasn't really dry because it bubbled and blistered, which I thought was terrific.  At this point, everything was still white.  I made puddle of Iced Spruce and Picket Fence distress stains on my craft sheet and painted it on with a brush.  I love the way the background came out!

I downloaded and printed this charming image from Janet K Designs.  If you love vintage images, you should visit her blog.  I added a few frilly embellishments from my boutique - Venise lace, crinkle ribbon (seam binding), a rhinestone ribbon slide, and a bronze rose that I also embossed with Weathered White embossing powder.  The sentiment is from Tim Holtz's Simple Sayings set, stamped in Iced Spruce and the banner was hand cut.

This one was a lot of fun to make.  Hope you like it.  Thanks so much for stopping by my blog and for your comments!


These items were used to make the card above and are available at The Funkie Junkie Boutique, where where most name brand products are always 20% below MSRP.

Ranger Inkssentials Speciality Stamping Paper 8.5 X 11	Prima 6x6 Stencil - Lattice	Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste - White	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Ink Pad	Ranger Embossing Powder - Weathered White Antiquities
Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Picket Fence White	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Iced Spruce	Venise Lace Trim - 1 Inch	Rayon Seam Binding	Rhinestone Ribbon Slider Round Buckles 17mm, 2 Pieces
Bronze Metal Roses for Scrapbooking and Mixed Media	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Simple Sayings	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Iced Spruce