The Crafter's Workshop BlogLayering stencils to create a scene

Hi everyone! This is Consie here to show you how I layered five different stencils to create a scene on a greeting card.

My best friend is moving to Florida in a couple weeks to live with her boyfriend. They have spent more than a year living in separate states and I wanted to give her a card that reflected how happy I am for them!

Here are all the supplies I used:

a piece of 8.5×11 white cardstock and bone folder to crease it in half
Acrylic paints in yellow, olive green, cadmium orange and black
Makeup sponges
Sharpie pen
Signo Uni-ball white gel pen
Painter’s tape/washi tape
Stencils: House • TCW 2061; Mini Sunlit Forest • TCW 517S; Mini Life Tidbits • TCW 504S; Mini Word Association • TCW527S; Daisy • TCW2078

The first step was to add the sun into the corner using the Daisy stencil, a makeup sponge and yellow acrylic paint. Adding paint past the fragment extended the rays of the sun.

The next step was to add in the trees using the Mini Sunlit Forest stencil. I used the House stencil as a mask on top of the forest so that I could fill in the house as I wanted later. I kept the paint near the edges of the forest stencil very light so that I could then extend the stencil design.

I extending the tree pattern by randomly moving the stencil around until I liked the forest and shadows I had created. I didn’t try to line anything up perfectly.

Next I added in orange to the door and window of the house.

I then created some fun doodles in my cute house in the trees with a Sharpie pen. You can freehand the outline of the house if you want (I did) or use the House mask to draw the shape. You have the shape…why not use it!

To personalize this specifically for my friend, I added the words Happy (Mini Word Association stencil) and Together with the figures (Mini Life Tidbits stencil) across the bottom of the card in black.

The final step was to add a bit of white here and there with a Signo gel pen and my card is all ready for the note inside to wish my friends much happiness together in their next big adventure!