Tuesday, December 22, 2015

{Spotlight Project} Maria Uses a Stencil to Create a Bokeh Effect


Welcome to my last spotlight project for 2015. Hope you are ready for the holidays and may have a little time for playing in your craft room soon! Today I will show you how I achieved a bokeh effect using a stencil. I actually created a rabble of butterflies with the bokeh technique.




STEP 1
I got out Fossilized Amber, Wild Honey, Abandoned Coral and Mermaid Lagoon Distress Inks and put down my Flutterby stencil to see where I wanted the embossing paste butterfly to be on the final project (left third).



STEP 2
Cut and inked up a piece of Neenah white CS really well. Then I splattered some water onto it and let it react.



STEP 3
Then it was time to create the bokeh effect. I sponged white pigment ink through various butterflies all over the panel, some heavily, some lightly inked. TIP: Flip the stencil over for, in this case, five additional butterfly images to choose from.




STEP 4
Positioned the stencil to get the large butterfly where I wanted it on my panel and used painter's tape to cover the surrounding butterflies. This way I wouldn't get embossing paste where I didn't want it!



STEP 5
The last step was to add a sentiment from Bold Sentiments: Discover. I white heat embossed one part and stamped the secondary sentiment with gray Versafine ink. Adhered the panel to a blue cardbase and called it quits.



Easy peasy! Happy holidays and happy crafting!


TschĂĽss,
Maria


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23 comments:

  1. WOW, love the embossed butterfly on top of the inked one. Just gorgeous!

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  2. Your card is so colorful and fun! I love the butterfly, it relly stands out against the background~

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  3. Love this Maria, it looks so dimensional. Carol x

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  4. Beautiful, love the vibrant colours with the white butterflies.

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  5. This is so flippin COOL!!!! I've got to try it, thanks for the tutorial!

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  6. Wonderful card! Love the vibrant background with the cool bokeh butterflies. The beautiful embossing paste butterfly looks fabulous! xxx

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  7. Maria this is awesome, one I am going to CASE..xxx

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  8. Gorgeous - I will try this - I love my butterfly stencil!

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  9. LOVEEE it!! The Butterfly Bokeh looks stunning! Merry Christmas to you all! <3
    Suchi xx

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  10. Oh my goodness this is amazing - love the vibrancy and the movement in this Maria.
    Blessings
    Maxine

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  11. This is so effective - I am going to have to try this!

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  12. Gorgeous card! Love the happy colors and the gold butterfly is special.

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  13. Stunning, especially that gold bold butterfly.

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  14. Wow, the effect of the inking and the stenciling is incredible. LOVE the final results:)

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  15. This is STUNNING!!!!! Love love how you overlaying those butterflies and final touching it with the gold butterfly. THANK YOU so much for the inspiration and tutorial :)

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  16. Oh my goodness! An absolutely drop dead gorgeous project! I thought I had enough butterfly stamps and stencils until I saw this and along with wanting to CASE your project you have reminded me of a technique I haven't done recently which would be a great project to twist after completing the first! I have to get that butterfly stencil soon, thank you for sharing your art and how you created it too Karen x

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  17. Gorgeous background to show off that beautiful butterfly stencil!

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