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Llamazing Birthday: Stencil Backgrounds (Heffy Doodle DT)

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Llamazing Birthday: Stencil Backgrounds (Heffy Doodle DT)

Have you ever needed a simple background to ground some focal images on your card scene? I have a llamazing birthday card over on the Heffy Doodle blog today that uses the Llamazing Llamas stamp set with some ink blending and a stencil to add that little something to help frame your images!

Llamazing Birthday Card Tutorial

Firstly, I started off by stamping out the llama scene elements from the Heffy Doodle Llamazing Llamas stamp set onto some Alcohol Marker Friendly Cardstock using some Lawn Fawn Jet Black Ink. I put aside my usual no-line colouring favourite in favour of those thick, black lines to make them stand out from the colour. I coloured them in with my Copic markers, sticking broadly to a pink, orange, green and blue scheme. I die cut these with the coordinating dies.

Next: time to make the background scene to help ground the llamas.

You’ll need three things:

  1. a colour scheme: I chose some a bright combo of pink, orange, green and blue.
  2. a stencil: I used the Heffy Doodle Crosswalk stencil.
  3. some ink: I chose some Distress Oxide inks in Picked Raspberry, Spiced Marmalade, Twisted Citron and Peacock Feathers.

Using some Heffy Tape to mask off the areas I didn’t want inked, I inked four bands of colour across the top of the card.

Having created the background, I then arranged the die cuts with some glue and foam tape to give some dimension.

The finishing touch was to add a simple sentiment in the top strip. I used Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink and a sentiment from the Classic Sentiments stamp set.

Give it a go! This is perfect for quickly using up a stash of die cuts and you can personalise the card to match your recipient!

Supplies

Please see below for information on the supplies used in this post. Please note, affiliate links* are used at no cost to you!