Nightscape Guy Cards

Hello everyone! I am back today sharing two guy cards featuring the brand new June Product of the Month Grunge Gears Stencil from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps. I confess, I had zero inspiration before this stencil arrived in the mail. I just started pulling sets out I thought might work with it and let the ideas flow from there.

I created the backgrounds almost exactly the same way. The lighthouse one is fainter because I started with a layer of speckled egg distress oxide ink since I wasn't sure I liked the first one I did. In the end, I decided to use both.

First, I taped down the stencil over a piece of white cardstock. Then, I went over it with distress oxide inks(picked raspberry, wilted violet, faded jeans and chipped sapphire). I continued to blend the inks until I was happy with it. Once I removed the stencil, I went over the background lightly with a combination of faded jeans and chipped sapphire. I die cut the panel, masked off a line with post-it notes where I wanted the water to be and went over that section heavy handed with chipped sapphire.

After I removed the post it notes, I heat set the ink and embossed the images with black powder along the water line. Don't forget to use an anti static powder first! I used post-it notes to mask off the embossed areas to add white paint splatters to the top and water texture to the bottom with white pigment ink and a texture stamp. Finally, I stamped the sentiment with black ink directly on the panel, matted the panel with black and attached to a white base. 

 

Grunge Gears Stencil

Sweet 'n Sassy products:

 

Landscape Silhouettes 

 

Texture Tiles 3

Script Sentiments

 

This post linked to:

Use Your Stuff - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes

Try it on Tuesday - For the Man in Your Life

Cardz 4 Guyz - On the Water

Krafty Chicks Challenge: #614 Stamp Act 

 

I hope you enjoyed today's card and thanks so much for stopping by!

Karen