Welcome everyone! It's Mindy and today I'm sharing something a little new to me and that is using Nuvo Dream Drops with Stencils. Now this technique was actually something a fellow design team member, Carly, had done and I just had to give it a try. I started by spraying the back of my Geometric Circles Stencil from Neat & Tangled with Pixie Spray. This is a temporary adhesive that you can put on your stencil and provides a light tack to hold the stencil in place on your card stock. In comes in super handy for intricate stencils like this one. I attached the stencil in place on black card stock and then started adding on some Nuvo Dream Drops in Love Potion. Taking a Tonic Spatula, I started spreading it across my stencil, just like I would glimmer paste.
It's amazing what this product looks like on black card stock! I have the bottle in my picture and you can see it's a light pink but once it's on black card stock, it turns like an iridescent purple. It's stunning in person!
Once I spread it out evenly, I remove the stencil and allow some time dry. After it was dry, which I may have helped along with my heat tool, I trimmed down to 3 3/4" x 5" and added to a white notecard with foam tape.
I die cut the Awesome word die once from Pixie Dust card stock and twice from white card stock. Then layered together with liquid glue. I added to the bottom half of my card with liquid glue as well.
The small sentiment that I heat embossed in white onto black card stock comes from the stamp set Mommy, Daddy and Me. I trimmed down to a thin strip and added to my card front with a tape runner.
Seriously, how stunning is this?! I'm blown away by the results ! I hope you'll give this a try.
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I started by pairing my stencils with my stamps based on what I thought made sense. The Rice Paddies went withe Unicorn because it looks like wind. The Radiating Star seemed perfect to put my snuggling foxes in the center. I chose to use the same Salty Ocean distress ink for each card to tie in each card to the set.
The Geometric circles seemed to mimic snowflakes to me so it went with my Bunny. Last I knew the S'more card would have more elements than the others so I chose a more open stencil. This makes the pattern more subtle perfect for making sure my card didn't look too busy.
You can check out the backgrounds and copic coloring in the video below.
I think they all came out adorable. I love how the bright orange and pink POP off that subtle blue backgrounds. Using only part of the stencil really appeals to my love of clean and simple designs.
I wanted to give you a look at of each of the cards individually in case there was something specific you wanted to check out.
I did add a shadow under each of the stamped elements with the same cool grays to help ground them.
The little girl in me just adores this one. Unicorns are always a little bit magical don't you think?
My intention wasn't to use this background horizontal but the layout just worked better this way. Us cardmakers need to be adaptable :)
