Soft Ink Blending

 I love the colors in this week's Color Throwdown, and decided to take a little softer approach:

Pinkfresh stamp, stencil, and dies.  Taylored Expressions ink.  SU Subtle Shimmer sequins.  As Laura Bassen says, dimension is life.  Both the stenciled die cuts and the panels are popped up with dimensional tape. 

I think it is interesting how the different saturations of the same colors gives a completely different look!

Stencil Fun

 I was lucky enough to get a spot in the March Crop & Create Delivered by Scrapbook & Cards Today.  The huge box of class materials included lots of stencils, something I have not used a lot.  I am hooked!!!!

I used Gina K's Daisies Forever stencil tone on tone on the Cameo Coral base layer, then again with Ruby Red on white for the flowers.  The "hello" is from another stencil and die from Pinkfresh.  The woodgrain look is done with a technique that Gina used in her class, just drag a grey inkpad down a piece of white paper.  Easy peasy!  The layout if from Paper Craft Crew's vertical sketch challenge: