Stenciling fun with my friend, Therese!

I love 'hanging out' with Therese and her fun friends during her YouTube LIVEs - let me tell you - Therese has been going gangbusters using one of my favorite supplies: stencils!  Head on over to her YouTube page to check out the latest.  But you'll find at least three posts on her blog where she dives into the many different ways she found to use stencils.  I took the bait and found ONE MORE... stenciling OVER patterned paper!  Yep, it works!  Take a look:

I found the perfect pattern in one of those Scrapbook.com Merry collections of Christmas papers I added to my stash this year.  I thought the stripe would be great as a backdrop to my stenciling - I've use Papertrey Ink's Berry Branches, and a few inks that were a perfect match to the colors in those stripes.  Then just ink away!

#1 Add the stems ...

then the leaves and berry layers.  Then for fun I borrowed

Therese's 'drop shadow'...

... then used the berry stencil to add dimension with the berry stencil

and my rubber mat...

I trimmed the finished panel just a wee bit, then popped it onto a side-fold A2 card base.

Adding a smattering of 'snow' using gouache.  Ready for the reveal?

Topped with a fussy-cut simple sentiment from my snippets, I couldn't 

be more pleased with the final card!

So, what do you say?  Will you try stenciling over patterned paper?  Or

will you be tempted by one of Therese's fun techniques?

If you do, we'd love to know about it!

I'm sending my 'snowy' creation - second helpings - over to

Christmas Kickstart #103!

=] Michele