stenciled card

Hello Happy Friday, I am looking forward to my weekend with Greg, but first I have some dogs to walk and go tot the gym and Greg and I are treating ourselves to a massage later as we've been working hard at the gym and we haven't had one in ages!

I had this card sitting on my desk for about a week, I used a sheet of lime green cardstock for another project and I made what was left into a 5" square card from my Art Philosophy cartridge. So today I had a bit of time this morning before I leave for the dogs and I thought i would try out something new I learned from some other blogs I follow. I cut a patterned green layer then on the CCR and my Edge to Edge cartridge I cut out this very nice overlay with flowers at 3.5". Normally you could just use the overlay on it's own and it looks lovely but I decided to make mine into a stencil. So I taped it lightly onto some more white cardstock and then used my distress inks in 3 colors -peeled paint, wild honey, and faded jeans  . I used a make up sponge to sponge all over the stencil. I took the stencil off and voila a really pretty background. I showed it to Greg and he was wowed! I then used Artiste to cut out the banner at 1" and I used the matching stamp and the same green distress ink to stamp the sentiment. I cut a butterfly out of a scrap using Artiste at 1.5". I kept the stencil I made as it looks lovely as well so waste not want not I will use that on a card as well in the future. Thanks for looking have a nice weekend.