My friends eldest son is graduating from Police school and asking me to make a card. I decided to do a city night scene to illustrate the work ahead of him. And when I make scenes, as you might already noticed, I love using stencils and sometimes lots of them.
- Type of project: Card
- Occasion: Graduation
- Style: Graphic
- Techniques used: Ink blending, stenciling
- Decoration: None
- Main colour: Grey and Blue
- Media used: Distress oxide ink, white ink spray
- Equipment used: Stencils, stamps, dies
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When making a city scene you need skyline stencils – I have two different styles. To build a night scene I also wanted a moon and som clouds in the sky. I wanted the word hero sort of projected over the sky in large capital letters. I wanted a policecar, that stencil I had to make from a die cut, and for the blue strobe light from from the roof I used a sun ray stencil. I used blending brushes to color in the stencils. At this point it was 7 stencils and counting…
I also used a edge stamp that looked like barrier tape.
At this point I also used ink spray to blend the colors together and add some night mist to the scene.
I ended up using 9 stencils with the stencils of two persons standing in the front of the scene and the map like squares I put behind them.
To finish it off I pu the name in capital die cut letters and the text “So proud of you” at the corner.
I hope you found this inspiring and explore the art of scene building and use of stencils more!
Karin Åslund is from Sweden. Karin has been writing for TPC since 2020. Karin started paper crafting in 2005 and she makes cards, mini albums and do some Art Journaling. Her paper projects are often made in traditional Vintage or in a Whimsical style.