Category: KB RIley

Channin Pelletier was the guest designer for day 9 of the Online Card Class Spring Card Camp. She had a very unique technique to create two for one cards. You would use a stencil and heavily ink blend it onto white cardstock with Distress Oxide Inks. The oxide inks would leave a residue of ink on the stencil that you would spray with water and lay a watercolor cardstock over the top creating a lighter pattern on the paper.

I tried this several times and was not very successful in creating the second image. This is the only set of cards that worked well enough that you could see the pattern.

For these cards I used Simon Says Stamp Diamond Stencil. I love the graphic look to this stencil, which has diamonds and circle depending on how you are looking at it. I ink blended with three blue oxide inks and love the way the first stenciling looked.

I paired it with Honey Bee Stamps Hooray Die. Because the background had so much white in the pattern the large sentiment die got lost, so I used the other layers to the die. The first shade I ink blended with the lightest blue ink and the second larger stitched shadow I cut from vellum. I layered everything together with liquid glue. I also decided to add some balloons. I cut the largest from vellum and then ink blended the medium and small balloons with some of the inks used in the background. I cut the balloon strings from vellum as well. I adhered the two smaller balloons together with liquid glue and added foam behind them for dimension. They were adhered to the vellum balloon. This gave you someplace to add glue to adhere the vellum balloon. As a finally embellishment I added some details to the two smaller balloons with Ranger Crystal Stickles.

For the second card I had already tried this before and it didn’t work out well, so after removing the stenciled background I pounced the ink onto the surface of the stencil again before spraying with water. The pattern is very light, but discernible.

Since the pattern was so light I cut it down to a smaller rectangle with a stitched die and added a mat of blue behind. I pulled out my KB Riley Happy Birthday Die because it is large and would become the focal image to the card. I ink blended it with the three blues used on the stencil. I cut it again from Darice Sticky Back Foam and adhered the two together and then added it to the card front. A secondary sentiment was stamped on ink blended paper and heat embossed with white embossing powder. Darice Foam Strip was added for dimension and it was adhered below the main sentiment. A few blue sequins were scattered around the sentiment and the card was done.