{"id":668,"date":"2014-06-03T05:54:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/articles\/creating-your-own-stencils\/"},"modified":"2020-08-26T12:33:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T07:03:17","slug":"creating-your-own-stencils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/creating-your-own-stencils\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating your own Stencils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nHere is a card made for my Official CraftAdda post today, using &nbsp;watercolour<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hndmd.com\/craft-supplies\/stencils?manufacturer=&amp;stock=7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&nbsp;stencil&nbsp;<\/a>backgrounds I made.<\/p>\n<p>The technique I wanted to do was with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hndmd.com\/craft-supplies\/stencils?manufacturer=&amp;stock=7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stencils<\/a>&nbsp;which had a large negative area. Since I did not have any such&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hndmd.com\/craft-supplies\/stencils?manufacturer=&amp;stock=7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stencil<\/a>, I decided to make my own using the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hndmd.com\/craft-supplies\/dies?manufacturer=&amp;stock=7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cuttlebug numbers die plate&nbsp;<\/a>and an OHP sheet. It did not cut perfectly, but I got a couple of really nice panels. I used Crushed Olive and chipped Sapphire<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hndmd.com\/craft-supplies\/inks?manufacturer=&amp;stock=7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&nbsp;distress inks<\/a>&nbsp;on the OHP sheet and then spritzed it with water.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the result&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/die-cut-stencil.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/die-cut-stencil.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"266\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/die-cut-stencils-2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/die-cut-stencils-2.jpg\" height=\"197\" width=\"400\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/die-cut-stencil-card.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/die-cut-stencil-card.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"296\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\nTo add interest I placed a sheet of blue vellum under the panel, added sequins and tilted the &nbsp;sentiment.<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\nThanks for stopping by&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\nHave a great day!<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\nParu Mahtani<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a card made for my Official CraftAdda post today, using &nbsp;watercolour&nbsp;stencil&nbsp;backgrounds I made. The technique I wanted to do was with&nbsp;stencils&nbsp;which had a large negative area. Since I did not have any such&nbsp;stencil, I decided to make my own using the&nbsp;Cuttlebug numbers die plate&nbsp;and an OHP sheet. It did not cut perfectly, but&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/creating-your-own-stencils\/\" class=\"button button-primary\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Creating your own Stencils<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[165,67,151,918],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirations","tag-paru-mahtani","tag-parus-perceptions","tag-stencils","tag-watercolours"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}