Color Hues #105 and Double D Going Green

A couple of weeks ago I spent some time just playing with stencils.  One of the cards I made works great for both the Color Hues (Green and White) and Double D (Going Green) challenges.

The layered stencil called Square Dance is from The Greetery.  I used Evergreen Bough, Pine Needles and Lost Shadow Distress Inks to color it, trimmed it down and added it to a white card base.  I thought the clover from PTI's Stemmed Statements went well with the colors and worked for a masculine card.  It's colored with the same inks and placed on the Modern Oval from Spellbinders.  The sentiment is from Hero Arts. 

Edited to Add:  The D and D gals reminded me of their Stencil Fun Challenge so my card is off to visit them too, minus the splatter twist. 

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AAA Colorful #13

Today's brightly colored card is for the AAA Colorful Challenge.

I got this Erin Lee Creative tie dye stencil a while ago and have made several cards with it.  This time I changed it up a bit to include the entire rainbow of colors.  While the sentiment looks black, it's actually indigo.  It's from Gina K and came with my Intri-cut.  

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Color Hues #17

Red and orange.  That a bright and cheery color combination and one that Color Hues wants us to use on our cards.  I aim to please.

I just had to have this three layer stencil from The Greetery and only used it once so thought it was time to get it out again.  It was inked using Distress Inks: first layer Crackling Campfire, second Carved Pumpkin and the third a lighter version of the first.  No need to tell me the darkest color should be the overlap.  I just didn't plan the colors well but I loved the results so I carried on. A couple of die cut flowers layered up and a sentiment on an Altenew label die was all I needed to finish it off.

 

Just Us Girls #579 - Trend Week

Carol has a wonderful way with stencils and so for her host pick at Just Us Girls this week she picked this for the challenge: 

I just happened to have the Tranquility Rose from Altenew that is a beautiful layering stencil waiting for a play.

I had also gotten the new Martian Terrain inks and they are such a lovely color that I had to try them on the rose.  I trimmed the panel and bordered it with a green that really matches the darkest color in the leaves even though it doesn't look like it here. 

No layering stencil?  No problem.  You can layer any that you have to make wonderful background designs.  We hope you'll give it a try and enter a card in the gallery.  For inspiration, please check out what the Design Team and our guest designer Claire have made for the challenge.