On the last Wednesday of every month (or towards the end of the month), Simon Says Stamp says they want to see what "we" are creating! So they issue a challenge to create something in the following weeks, often providing a theme.
For April, they suggested the color yellow should play a role in the piece posted.
Now, it just so happened that I had started a project that fulfilled this theme but it had stalled. I pulled it back out of the unfiinished project file and got to work.
Back in early April, on the Compendium of Curiosities 3 Challange, Design Team member Anita Houston shared with us her binder cover for layered stencils and I fell in love with the concept. My layering stencils, although they are kept on a ring, are always getting tangled in each other or worse, and I needed a way to keep them organized yet at hand. Her binder idea was perfect, IF I could find the chipboard binder tags! Well, I finally tracked them down at a link Anita provided in her blog post, and, when they arrived, I got to work.
I took a set of "Heart of Texas" chipboard tags:
For April, they suggested the color yellow should play a role in the piece posted.
Now, it just so happened that I had started a project that fulfilled this theme but it had stalled. I pulled it back out of the unfiinished project file and got to work.
Back in early April, on the Compendium of Curiosities 3 Challange, Design Team member Anita Houston shared with us her binder cover for layered stencils and I fell in love with the concept. My layering stencils, although they are kept on a ring, are always getting tangled in each other or worse, and I needed a way to keep them organized yet at hand. Her binder idea was perfect, IF I could find the chipboard binder tags! Well, I finally tracked them down at a link Anita provided in her blog post, and, when they arrived, I got to work.
I took a set of "Heart of Texas" chipboard tags:
and used three of my Layering Stencils ("Harlequin" THS016, "Splotches" THS037 and "Bricked" THS028) and Blended "Vintage Photo" Distress Ink through them on the borders of the front tag/binder cover:
I then cut a piece of sunshine yellow Bazill cardstock to the same size as a layering stencil and used layering stencil "Rays" (THS003), Color Box "Frost White" and Distress Ink "Mustard Seed" to create a shadowed effect (taught to me by a dear friend, Sherry Bass)
Next step was to match the "Harlequin", "Splotches" and "Bricked" stencil patterns form the chipboard tag to the yellow tag, using "Scattered Straw" Distress Ink (interesting how "Scattered " so much like "Mustard Seed" when used on a yellow card):
This then sat and mellowed while I went to Megameet in Novi, Michigan! When I returned yesterday, I had an idea for how to finish the cover without making it likely to catch on an object in a project bag or on my desk. I pulled out some stamp sets (Stampin' Up! "Handmade with Love", 2002 and Stampers Anonymous "Bird Crazy" CMS212), stamped the artist palette image on white card stock with "Fossilized Amber" Distress Ink and the crazy bird with Archival "Chrome Yellow", cut them out, layered them both on a dark mustard cardstock (brand unknown), cut the layered pieces out, and collage-glued them to the front of my cover. I then lettered in the title "Layering Stencils" in black pen, and shadowed the bird and the artist's palette and highlighted the bird's eyes with a "Frayed Burlap" Distress Marker.
The tag was attached to the chipboard with redline tape. I added some corners from the Idea-ology set TH92789 and had a cover!
The tag was attached to the chipboard with redline tape. I added some corners from the Idea-ology set TH92789 and had a cover!
The inside of the stencils binder isn't complete yet. I have cut more card-stock tags to act as dividers/index sheets; both they and the back cover might eventually get inked up as well.
But for now, my layering stencils have a safe home and I have something bright, cheerful and YELLOW (four shades of yellow ink and two of cardstock were used in the project!) to catch my eye in my basement craft space and remind me to get these stencils out and USE them!
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