MCT Tutorial Thursday.....{Making Your Own Stencils using Dies}

Good Morning everyone and welcome to a new feature on the My Creative Time blog! 
This one is Tutorial Thursday~ where the DT will share video or written tutorials using MCT stamps and dies!

Remember this card I made for the "Trending Now~Stencil it" post? Well I had some questions regarding how I made my stencil so I thought I would share a very easy written tutorial and another card using a homemade stencil.
Here is the new card I made using some of the newest releases......

Gold is HOT right now and I just LOVE the new sentiment from the You're My Hero Stamp set so I made a new stencil using 2 of the new star dies and did some heat embossing too. 
Here is how I did this...

I start out with a piece of acetate that I get at the Office Supply store. I actually go to the copy department and buy the sheets individually, they maybe cost $0.20 each...really cheap. I cut a piece down to about 5 1/2 x 6 1/2 so it can easily be placed over a standard A2 size card. Next I pulled out 2 of the new Bunch of Stitched Stars dies and arranged them onto my acetate. Making no specific pattern I die cut the stars and repeat until I get the pattern I want.

Here you can see my acetate laying on top of my card mat. Since the mat is the smallest of the Stitched Rectangular Frame Dies, you can see that the stencil lays over the actual cardstock. That is fine, I can save this stencil and use it over and over again :) Next I taped the stencil down over my cardstock to begin the inking and embossing part. Using my Versamark ink I tapped it on top of the stencil making sure to really cover the entire open stencil part. Since the ink will rub of the stencil I didnt worry about ruining that...I just wanted the best coverage for my embossing. Next I pulled the stencil off and covered the cardstock with some gold embossing powder. Heated it up and I have a beautiful embossed background using MCT dies!

Next for the sentiment, I used the circle cut out from the Surprise Pop-Out Card Die to stamp my sentiment onto. Now for this part I have had some questions about this too...adding thread to cards. Here is what the backside of my thread nest looks like. Nothing pretty but flip it over and it adds so much added details to a card :)

My Creative Time Products Used:

You're My Hero

Bunch of Stitched Stars

Stitched Rectangular Frame Dies & More

Surprise Pop-Out Card Die

Additional Products Used:

Acetate

Gold Embossing Powder

Gold thread

Fun Foam

Black, White and Gold cardstock

So what did you think of my card? 

You should really go through all your MCT dies and make some of your own stencils. The possibilities are endless and oh so much fun!!!

Make sure you head on over to My Creative Time to see what the rest of the DT made!

I know the inspiration is AWESOME!!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a GREAT Thursday!!!

CI Paints Inspired By~ A Sketch

Good Morning Bloggers!!!

It is time for another fun

Inspired By Challenge 

over at

Creative Inspirations Paint!!

This weeks Challenge~

Inspired By: A Sketch

we want to see all those cards you make inspired by any sketch! The only catch...you must share the sketch in your post.

For my project today I used the sketch from

iSpy Sketches

(the challenge is actually over but I still like the sketch)

and came up with this.....

I used several different CI Paint products~

• Deliquesce Black Embossing powder for the image and sentiment
• Gold CI Paint for the crown and for the cuffs on his jacket
• Resplendence Angel Dust for his beard

Here is a close-up so you can see more of all this shimmer and sparkle :)

Supplies:

Paper~ Kraft, Core'dination, MME

Stamps~ The Alley Way Stamps~

Jolly Holiday

Other~ Creative Inspirations Paint~

Deliquesce Black Embossing Powder

Resplendence Angel Dust

CI Paint~ Gold

3 Girl Jam Crinkle Ribbon~

Seasons Bundle~ Halloween Harvest

I hope you like my projects and will play along with us over at

Creative Inspirations Paint!

Remember you do not need CI Paints on your project but if you have them we would

LOVE to see how you use them!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a GREAT day!!!