More Goosebumps & A Sale

For some reason I don't have very many stencils. It never bothered me, since I never really used them. However, with my recent discovery of how much I love Goosebumps, I was dismayed when I only found a couple that were currently in my "I own it" stash. I even checked my "you need to sell this" stash, but I apparently sold most of those too.

Then I had a bit of a brainwave and thought, what about Spellbinders Impressabilities? They're a stencil, right?? And I tried it out and it worked awesome. I have a few of these that I tried to use like an embossing folder, but I just find them too fragile. As a stencil, however, I love them. Yeah! I'm happy to have found a use for them.

As with the plastic stencils, you can generally get a positive and negative from them. This card was made with the negative. It got kind of messy, but it still looked nice when I added a few stamps. I love how it gives you an instant type collage type background without a ton of work.

In honour of my newfound inspiration, I have all my in stock Impressabilities on sale for $5 each. I have limited quantity of each, so when they're gone, they're gone (well, I can order you one, but it will be regular price).

Paisley

Cherries

Diamond & Stars
Flower SilhouetteFleur De Lis Pattern
Fleur De Lis StripeButterfly

I've got Goosebumps

I've had a bottle of Goosebumps Texture Spray on my desk for over a month and finally sat down this week and played with it and I love it! It is so cool. For anyone who knows me, they know that I love anything resist. There are so many different techniques for doing resist and with the Goosebumps Spray, there is one more.

I ordered a bunch of stencils from Prima a couple of weeks ago and when they came in, they were so gorgeous. I went to get one when I was playing the other day, but I must have sold out at PMS (Pretty Mean Stampers) last week. Oh well, that's a good thing, right?? I'll just have to order more. I ended up pulling out a pretty stencil from Crafter's Workshop instead. It's of a cherry blossom and a little bird. It's so simple, but I really like it.

I found some information on the Internet about Goosebumps and then just started playing. I cut some white matte cardstock and placed the stencil overtop and just spritzed a bit. You really don't need a lot. And you'll want to wash the stencil off right away because when it dries, it's very difficult to get off the stencil. But, not to waste any, I put a piece of cardstock on top of the stencil before I washed it so I could pull off the negative. Then I washed it.

You can either heat set the spray or let it air dry. I then added Distress Ink with my Blending Tool. You can stamp some background stamps with Distress as well. Wherever there is Goosebumps, it will resist. When you're happy with it, then spritz some water on a paper towel and wipe the ink off the resisted areas. You can then stamp with Versafine or Chalk Ink which will cover the resist areas if desired.

Again, I used the Cherry Blossom template and Aged Mahogany Distress Ink. I stamped French Script (Hero Arts) as a background in Aged Mahogany and added the saying (Inkadinkado) in Versafine. It's a very simple card, but I love how it turned out!

I love how you can get a resist by using a stencil instead of a stamp. This opens up a whole new realm of possibilities for me. Needless to say, I have just added a whole bunch of template stencils to my next order.