November CAS Stencil Card Challenge - Stencil Monoprint

Welcome to November and the new challenge over at CAS Stencil!  Linda is our host this month and she wants us to use the Stencil Monoprint technique!  

So - what is that you ask?  Well we just happen to have a technique video linked up over at the Challenge blog -  but I'll also show you with photos of how I made my card!

I got out a recently purchased stencil - Stone Face from Stencil Girls.  I wanted to do it in blue so I pulled out Salty Ocean Distress Ink - then I chose a color opposite blue on the color wheel, Carved Pumpkin.  First I pressed the orange onto the stencil, then the blue.

Then I spritzed with water, you want to spritz liberally, but not so much if runs all over the place or you'll lose the distinct colors.

I flipped the stencil over onto a panel of water color paper and pressed over the stencil with  a paper towel to help the watery color absorb into the paper.

I carefully removed the stencil.

and laid a paper towel over the panel, pressing over the paper towel to absorb any pools of water on the card panel.

I dried the panel with my heat tool.  

Using this technique, you get a negative print of the stencil, so with the stencil I used, I feel like I have to focus on the image a minute to see the face!

To make it CAS, I trimmed down the panel, cutting it with a Crimped Frame Die from The Greetery and layering it over a teal panel.   I stamped the sentiment from Sentiment Suite: Thinking of You onto a banner cut with Sentiment Suite Basics die - both from The Greetery.

I made one exactly the same but with Ranger Distress Fossilized Amber and Spiced Marmalade inks (yellow and orange).  The image is more readily seen using these colors for some reason.
(to my eye anyway!)

So please join us and try out this Stencil Monoprint techniqe and share it with us over at CAS Stencil!  You'll find lots of inspiration from the Design Team as well as our talented guest designer for November,  Lucie.  

Stamps:  Sentiment Suite: Thinking of You - The Greetery
Paper:  water color paper - Canson, white, White, Tropical Teal, Bright Buttercup - PTI
Ink:  Ranger Distress Salty Ocean, Carved Pumpkin, Fossilized Amber, Spiced Marmalade; True Black - PTI
Accessories:  Stone Face Stencil - Stencil Girl, Crimped Frame Die, Sentiment Suite Basics die - The Greetery, craft mat, water mister, paper towels, foam dots.