Today I tackled using a stencil to make it the background but at the same time to make it the star of the card! This is another class towards my level 1 for AECP.
I use a paste to build up the snowflakes on the card front on the beautiful Caribbean cardstock. It is kind of funny to add snow the Caribbean, but the classic blue and white always comes together.
Then I pick the Zero-Waste: Oval Serenity die set from this year to create the center piece. But I don't want to cover up the snowflakes. I use vellum from the oval cut out to be able to still see the majority of the card front.
I glued the sentiment on the middle of the vellum and then added glue to the back of the vellum where the sentiment was placed. This way you are not able to see the glue through the vellum.
I die cut out the flowers and leaves with three different colors. Before I put them down with glue, I play the puzzle game. Putting different flowers/leaves down in areas until I find were I want them to be. I did take a picture to use as a guide once I got to the step of glueing.
As I add the flowers and leaves to the card, it additional helps to secure the vellum on the bottom of the oval. I picked the dark blue color to add to the mat on the card. It connects the colors together from the middle to the outer edge of the card.
The top of the vellum was still loose, so I figured I would add three glue dots on the paste section at the top. Once the glue dried it faded into the paste, and you can't see it through the vellum.
If the glue is visible, you could add other embellishments to the top of the vellum to hide it. On this card I was trying to make the background stencil be the star. Which meant having it show through as much as I can on the card front.
In the end, I love how this card turned out. The Altenew class taught me so many ways to use a stencil and I look forward trying out the different techniques on many more cards.
I like the addition of vellum! And you are right, blue and white always works.
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