Handmade Stencil.....

Hello again, everyone: Every time there is a challenge that's asking for stenciling, I say to myself "Ok, this is it!!, I'm getting some stencils!!!" and, for one reason or another, I never do. I have ONE stencil that was gifted to me by my friend Claire Grantham and it's of a Honeycomb, I've used it several times but this time, I wanted another design that would look good with the stamp of a Dragonfly I've been wanting to use so, I went ahead and created my own stencil, here is my card.

The stenciled image was made with THIS Tim Holtz thinlits die set, I just cut a piece of card stock with it and taped it to my water color paper with washi tape. The sponged colors are done with Seedless Preserves, Shaded Lilac and Spun Sugar distress inks.

The Dragon fly image is from a retired SU set called Nature's Nest, which is simply gorgeous. I colored it with THIS SHIMMER PAINTS  from Impress Rubber Stamps.

The sentiment is from a retired Flourishes set.

Here is a picture of the finished inside of my card.

I'm linking this card the "Less is More" challenge, hosted by their brand new Designer Team member ESTHER, hope you can go visit her blog and leave her some crafty love, her cards are always gorgeous and to the Addicted to CAS, CODE WORD "FLY".

Thank you for stopping by, until next time, happy stamping.

Hugs from Maria.

Stamps I used.

For sentiment inside.

For sentiment in front.