Fantasy Flowers Part 2

Hi and I hope you are having a good weekend -keeping cool at least!  Here is my second fantasy floral card made with molding paste and a stencil.  Today's card is misted with blue Delusion spray.  The design sits on a dark brown card stock and matted on blue with a white card base.

Close Up!

I added gold pearl swirls under the purple/blue ribbon.  Instead of pearls like my first card, I used baby blue jewels (and a few dark blue) and some lime green for the leaves.

This picture gives you a good idea of the thickness of the molding paste.  It is a little rough around the edges.  Stencils are thin and I wanted to see if I could get a thicker stenciled design by spreading a thicker coat over the stencil.  I was successful...to a point.

Remember that all kinds of things can be used for stencils.  You can punch a design in a heavy cardstock and use that as your stencil.  I've done this and it worked really well.

Hope you liked my cards this weekend!

Lis

Fantasy Flowers Part 1

I'm having a heck of a time with Blogspot today.  The screen keeps freezing so I'm going to talk about my card today down here.

I am doing a Frantic Stamper project (a frame) and am using molding paste.  Fran carries this and it comes in a number of colors.  I am using white because I wanted to color it myself.

I took a plastic flower stencil and covered my piece of cardstock with it.  I carefully covered the stencil with the molding paste, first spreading it like a frosting about 1/8 inch think.

Then I used a flat surface tool to smooth the molding paste over the stencil. (I used an artist's trowel, you can use one of those fake credit cards they send you in the mail).

I scraped off any excess and placed that back in my jar. I tried to make sure there weren't any lines on what was left, I wanted a smooth surface.

Then I carefully removed my stencil.  I peeled it off from one side to the other but I made sure that I lifted straight up.

What was left was molding paste and design.  I let this dry overnight.

I chose some Delusions sprays (blue, yellow and green).  I went outside for the next step.

• I placed my card in a box
• I sprayed the left side with blue, the center with yellow and the right edge with green
• I chose my colors so that what overlapped would make another color (in this case orange) and that the colors would blend well.
• I didnt need much spray.

NOTE: I originally used a card base for this project thinking I could get it done on the front of the card itself. BIG MISTAKE.  I had molding paste on the edges that adhered to the inside of my card and it made a little mess.  So, I cut off the front and matted it to another card base in white.

I hope you enjoyed my card today.  It is a lot of fun working with dimensional paste.  I hope you give it a try!

Lis