Using Things From Your Stash! – Collected Crafty Collabs Monthly Hop

Welcome to the first of six monthly hops intended to encourage you to use those supplies that we all have squirrelled away – no judgement here, we all do it! Each month we will have a different theme and this month is critters!! We will also have an optional, suggested supply to use and this month we have stencils!

I chose to use a new-to-me stencil from Catherine Pooler Designs but I paired it with some Hero Arts dye inks that I haven’t used in a while to create my background. (I ink blended straight onto a top folding A2 card base made from 110lb Neenah Solar White. I used three shades of blue to create an ombre effect. I love doing this through a stencil like this because it is so forgiving; if you don’t get the best of blends then that won’t be so obvious.

Whenever I stamp & colour a little image I like to do one or two extra and then I keep all of these in a little tub on my desk; this makes for a great source when making cards quickly. The only trouble is that the number of images living in that tub gets higher & higher, so in the interest of using supplies we have stashed I had a look in there for a critter and found this cute little puppy that I coloured a couple of months ago!

I knew I didn’t have a sentiment that I wanted to pair with it already stamped, so I had a look through my stash and I came across this absolutely PERFECT sentiment from Picket Fence Studios.

I embossed it in Opaque Bright White Superfine from WOW! onto a piece of dark blue cardstock that I found in my scraps tub. I balanced out the sentiment with two white gel pen lines and popped the strip up on adhesive foam tape. I added the puppy at the end of the strip, using wet glue where he is sitting on the raised bit and a couple of foam adhesive squares to support the rest of him.

It felt good to have this come together as quickly as it did; I’ve been feeling a bit creatively dry over the last week but this worked as a jump-start for me!!

As well as using this card for my Blog Hop entry, I’m submitting it for this fortnight’s challenge over at Aud Sentiments. We don’t have a DT image for this one so we are all using something from our stash. I hope you will join us in submitting a card to our challenge.