Silver Elephant Craftique: Blank Page Muse/I Brake for Stamps: Make Ephemera from a Stencil

This month's theme at Blank Page Muse/I Brake for Stamps (BPM/IBFS) is "Stencil It," which means using a stencil in our project. I love using stencils for making backgrounds and scenes, but did you know you can also make ephemera (also called embellishments and die cuts)? For today's card, I am using the adorable gnome stamp from BPM/IBFS called PJ Love Gnome designed by Pam Bray, the Cute Mushrooms Stencil designed by Donna Gray, and the Clouds and Drops 5x5 inch Mixed Media Stencil. I made the ephemera with the mushrooms stencil. So fun and easy to do.

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Supplies:

BPM/IBFS: PJ Love Gnome designed by Pam Bray
BPM/IBFS: Cute Mushrooms Stencil designed by Donna Gray
BPM/IBFS: Clouds and Drops 5x5 inch Mixed Media Stencil
A6 Card base, white cardstock
White cardstock to stamp image, 3"W x 3"H
Blue cardstock mat, 4-1/2" x 6-1/8"H
White cardstock, card front, 4-1/4"W x 6"H
White cardstock to cut hills, 4-1/4"W x 5"H
White cardstock to make mushrooms, 6"W x 3"H
Hill Die (I used one from Gina Marie Designs)
Distress Oxide in Mowed Lawn, Lucky Clover, Tumbled Glass, Stormy Sky, Dusty Concord and ink blending tool
Gel Pens in Red, Brown (I used Arteza Metallic Pens)
White Gel Pen (I used #10 Gelly Roll pen)
Coloring medium of choice (I used Copic markers)
Black ink pad
Stamping platform or block
Your favorite adhesive
Optional: Red and white twine

Instructions:

Cut out the cardstock as indicated in the supplies list
Stamp, color, and fussy cut the gnome image. I colored my stamp with Copic markers

Skin: E13, E11, E21
Beard: T5, T3, T1
Blue: B99, B97, B95, B91

Using the hill die, cut out two hills the ink blend with Distress Oxides in Mowed Lawn and Lucky Clover. Put the Mowed Lawn in the center and the Lucky Clover towards the outer edges. Set aside.

Using the white cardstock card front, use the Distress Oxides in Tumbled Glass to ink the sky. Ink far enough down so the colors are just below the hill. I measured with the hills and marked it with a pencil.

Tape the clouds stencil over the sky area and use sticky notes paper to cover areas of the stencil you are not using. Using blender brushes, ink the cloud in Distress Oxide in Stormy Sky, then add a little Dusty Concord. Add various clouds to the sky.

To create the mushrooms, use the mushroom stencil and the gel pens to color 7 various mushrooms. Add white dots to the mushrooms with a white gel pen.