"Stenciling Fun" Blog Hop Collaboration | Picket Fence Studios & Waffle Flower Crafts

Hello!

Sharing a love for stenciling, the Picket Fence Studios' Design Team is happy to be hopping over on Instagram with the folks from Waffle Flower Crafts to showcase their NEW Stencil Mats along with our stenciling products! Hop along with us for wonderful inspiration and chances to win some awesome prizes! @waffleflowercrafts is giving away their ENTIRE NEW RELEASE on their account and Picket Fence Studios (@picketfencestudios) will draw 1 random winner from comments left on this Instagram Hop to receive two (2) $25 gift certificates (1 for each of our online stores)! Here's where you get started on the hop: 

Waffle Flower       @waffleflowercrafts
Nicole Petersen     @nicolepetersendesigns
Karen Reategui     @_littleblessings_
Sandi MacIver      @sandimaciver
Erica Burke           @erica_cacacraft
Michelle Lupton    @michelle_lupton
Rachelle Oltean     @redcre8s
Daniel West           @delandartie
Julia Piksaykina    @julia_pix
Lisa Tilson            @lisatilson
Larisa Hohman     @scrappychic17larisa
Sara Sherlock       @muchlovesara
Ilina Crouse          @ilinacrouse
Amanda Garrett    @thelittlepinkcaboose
Lydia Fiedler        @understandblue
Picket Fence Studios    @picketfencestudios

For my card, I placed the NEW Waffle Flower Stencil Mat down onto my glass mat and it grabbed solidly onto the surface. A piece of Neenah 100# Solar White card stock was fitted into the top right corner and Picket Fence Studios’ Slim Line “Rainbow” Stencil was placed on top and secured with a couple of pieces of tape. I was able to put a couple of Distress Oxide Ink containers right onto the mat along side of the card stock and they stayed securely in place while I picked up ink color using my “Life Changing Blender Brushes!” I easily dabbed the excess ink onto the mat and blended my colors together before adding them to the stencil and clean up was a cinch with just a damp paper towel. This silicone surface really grabs/holds items in place and I like the fact that the surface is white because I sometimes the colors I’m working with tend to get ‘lost” on my black glass mat.

I blended “Twisted Citron”, “Salvaged Patina” and “Peacock Feathers” Distress Oxide Inks, spritzed the panel with pearl mist, and spattered it with multiple pearl watercolors. This panel was set aside to dry in a heavy book, trimmed to 8.5” x 3.5” and attached to a slim line card base. 

I barely dipped my media knife into the “C” container of the NEW Paper Glaze Ombre “Nutcracker Ballet” Lux and wiped it into a section of my plastic palette. I diluted this with a small amount of water, gave it a quick stir and randomly painted it onto a small piece of black card stock. This dried in about 10 minutes and was cut with the “Escape” word die cut. I backed this an additional black die cut and attached this stack onto a white card stock shadow cut. I really like how the Lux color and glitter flash across the word die and this was so simple to do!

I stamped the NEW Torch Ginger Tropical Flower image with “Worn Lipstick” Distress Oxide Ink, water colored it with the no-line painting technique and fussy cut the image. The lily pad image from the “Pond Scenery” Stamp Set was stamped, watercolored and fussy cut along the outer edge.  Here are the Torch Ginger Tropical Flower Stamp Set and the coordinating dies - I love how you can mix-n-match the die cut word "escape" with the rest of the stamped sentiment for lots of different looks!

   

To create my Zen water lily scene, I adhered the lily pad onto the stenciled panel and popped up the flower with foam tape. The word die cut stack was glued beneath and I added a few sequins from the “Spring Fling” Sequin Mix to finish up this card!

Thanks so much for hanging with me today for this post and I hope you'll head over to Instagram to join our Blog Hop!

Challenges:

The Flower Challenge #60 - Add Some Turquoise

Addicted To Stamps & More #414 - Any Occasion

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Stencils

Crazy 4 Challenges C4C601 - Let's Do Flowers!

Take care and happy crafting!

Rachelle ♥

All Occasion Card | Waffle Flower - Rainbow Panel Die - Alphabet Challenge 10th Anniversary!

Hello!

I think we could all use some sunshine and rainbows right now and I hope that this colorful card fits the bill! I am thrilled to announce that I will be a Guest Designer over on the Alphabet Challenge for the next few months and am so happy to join this amazing team! This great challenge is hitting a huge milestone by celebrating its 10th Anniversary at the start of the alphabet with the "A" - ANYTHING GOES Theme! This is a huge accomplishment and we hope you will submit your projects into the gallery to help us celebrate!

I used a sun-ray stencil and ink blended the background panel with Distress Oxides, spritzed it with shimmer spray and heavily spattered it with metallic watercolors; this panel was adhered to a top-folding A2 card base. The pickup truck (from an old Stampendous Set) was stamped, colored and fussy cut. Using a black marker, I lined the edge all around the image to finish it. I was very lucky and found a striped pattern paper in my stash that really looked like an abstract road! I trimmed a strip to go at the bottom of my layout and glued it into place.

I die cut the cloud/rainbow image twice on heavyweight card stock, trimmed the large cloud separately and glued/stacked them together. The sentiment was stamped using the MISTI and I die cut the rainbow from 5 different card stock colors. Since I only needed one of each color for this project, I just put all of the extras into the back of the die packaging; this way I will have them ready for the next time! I glued the skinny white rainbow frame onto the front, added the color strips in between and popped the cloud and truck into place with foam tape. I finished up the card with a colorful assortment of sequins acting as my raindrops!

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope you will join us for this special 10th Anniversary "Anything Goes Challenge" on the Alphabet Blog!

Additional Challenges:

Stamping Sensations - Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Joy Of Sets - Tic Tac Toe - Ink Blending/Die Cuts/Fussy Cut

Color Crazy Challenge #14 - AG

Little Red Wagon - #544 - Mix-em Up!

 

Rachelle ♥

Birthday Card | Lawn Fawn - One in a Chameleon

Yippee!

This card was featured on Lawn Fawn's Flickr Friday {6.29.18} review!

Hi there!

Today I would like to share this cute card with you, which features Lawn Fawn’s “One in a Chameleon" stamp set. The chameleon image was randomly stamped onto the front of an A-2 top-folding card base with Hickory Smoke Distress Ink and then spattered with pearlized paint. Rainbow colors were painted on to white card stock, the chameleon was stamped with black VersaMark ink and die cut. The tree limb was stamped onto wood grain card stock and die cut; multiple leaves were also die cut. 

I die cut MFT’s Die-namics Stitched Rainbow and watercolored it to match my chameleon’s stripes. After a black die cut frame was glued to the card front, the limb/leaves were also glued down. The chameleon and sentiment were popped up with foam taped for added dimension. The rainbow die cut was trimmed and glued into place behind the chameleon and a Wink of Stella was added for a bit of shimmer. I used Waffle Flower’s Rainbow Stamp & Die Set to finish the sentiment on the inside.

This card just makes me smile 😊

I shared this card in these challenges: Lawn Fawnatics Challenge 31 - Flowers, Floral and Foliage, Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge and Anything Goes at Seize the Birthday.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Rachelle ❤️