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Wednesday 11 May 2016

more stencils at countryview crafts

Good morning lovelies! Well another day has dawned and today its my job to bring you a little inspiration for the challenge over at countryviewchallenges where the theme is to use a stencil. There is the usual challenge plus this month Susan is offering a prize for a blog hop - if you go here you can get all the details of how to enter both.

So today I have a card I have made for a friend from drama, Neil. Its his birthday on Saturday - I think I'm pretty safe posting it here - I know he doesn't look at my blog .... or even know that I have one! Lol!!!


Okay so this is what we're heading for .... and this is how I made it .....



I started by brayering three colours of fresco paint onto a piece of A4 card ...



Once dry I started to add some clocks using a layering-stencil---clockwork from Tim Holtz. I used snowflake acrylic white fresco paint through the stencil.


Next I added some words using layering-stencil---traveler also from Tim Holtz.


Next I cut the piece of card I wanted to use and stamped on stampers-anonymous-tim-holtz---evolution stamp and also used the stampers-anonymous-tim-holtz--newsprint--stamp. I stamped in potting soil archival ink.


Next I used thinlits-die-set-22pk---gearhead-by-tim-holtz to cut out the corner and also some cogs.


I added these to the card and layered up!

I do hope this card is appreciated! And I hope you can join us at countryview challenges by using a stencil and also joining our blog hop!

Big Hugs

Rachel x

20 comments:

  1. Oh, Rachel, what a super cool masculine card! I love how you did your background and how you used that awesome Tim Holtz's die here! Your friend is going to treasure this!
    It's marvelous! Hugs! Branka xx

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  2. Good morning dear Rachel, your friend will love it. Your background stencilling is awesome and those gears really are brilliant. Such a clever male card. Happy Wednesday, huge hugs xx

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  3. A super masculine card Rachel and I am sure your friend will love it. Lovely creations in the post below yesterday, Blogger would not me comment then.

    B x

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  4. Gorgeous card Rachel, sure Neil will love it

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  5. What a great masculine card, Rachel! I bet the your friend will love it!!! Super stenciling!!! Hugs

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  6. Brilliant male theme, the colours and whole step of creating is fabulous...love that image..xx
    {aNNie}

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  7. Brilliant! Love doing male cards and especially using gears! Love the image too!
    Hugs
    Linda xxx

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  8. It's fantastic Rachel. I loved seeing how it developed. A great male card. Neil is sure to really be pleased with it. Barbxx

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  9. Perfect combination of image and die-cuts - what a cool card for Neil - I'm sure he'll love it.
    Alison x

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  10. A super card Rachel, such a fabulous masculine design.
    Pauline
    x

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  11. Fab male card Rachel and Stockton-0n-Tees is about 30 mins from me lol huggles Sue xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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  12. I don't think there is any doubt whatsoever - I think your friend will love this - a lot!! Hugs, Anne xx

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  13. Fabulous stencil work Rachel, beautifully put together!

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  14. fabulous card and love how you built up all the layers
    Carol x

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  15. Fabulous male card Rachel, your background is brilliant and a super image too, Kate x

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  16. Beautifully designed and created Rachel, this is a fabulous male card. I am friend will love it xx

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  17. Great card Rachel, I always struggle with male cards..but this is fabulous. x

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  18. Love this Rachel, the layers of stamping and die cuts (I think I need that thinlit set..) are perfect and it's masculine inspiration, which I am in need of!

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  19. Hi, i'm not keen on male cards, but love yours, think i need this stamp, great background.xx

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