Make a fun DIY acetate stencil/mask using the polar bear dies from Stampin Up new Snow Globe Scenes

How exciting the new Autumn/Winter catalogue from Stampin Up is now live. Buy all your Christmas crafts now and learn how to make your own acetate stencils/masks using the SNOW GLOBE SCENES DIES.

I have made masks and stencil from cardstock and paper for many years, but for this technique cutting the dies out of acetate gives you a clear see through image to work with and create a lovely polar bear scene as a great background for your Christmas cards.

This is such an easy ad simple technique that works with any die that you may have in your collection.  I used the SPONGE BRAYERS to add some background colour.

Watch my step by step video tutorial to see exactly how I made the stencils and created this background.

Stampin Up The Raven meets Beauty & Joy

The new Stampin Up The Raven stamp set makes a lovely silhouette over a moody atmospheric background simply achieved with the sponge brayer.

The Sponge Brayer is a great buy at just £7.50 for 2 handles and four sponge heads it enables you to create so lovely backgrounds simply and easily.  The sponge heads wash out easily in water so can be used again and again.

The Raven stamp set is new in the Autumn/Winter catalogue which launches on the 4th September and is a Halloween stamp with lots of Halloween sentiments.  However this bird could easily be a crow or any other silhouette bird.  Create a background with the sponge brayers and the leaves to the branch with the Beauty and Joy stamp set and you have a lovely silhouette card suitable for any occasion.

Want to know how? then watch my video tutorial.

Fun Tee Shirt Designs If Your Happy and you Know It Keep it Up

I love fun and funky and like most of us have a great selection of tee shirts with all sorts of great images on. Stampin Up Sale a Bration is certainly a time to be happy because for every £45 spent you can chose a free product from the sale a Bration brochure. One of those free sets is Designer Tees which coordinates with the Custom Tee bundle 35 stamps and coordinating dies to create fun Tee shirt designs. Click on the link above and you will find these in the Spring/Summer catalogue.

So I used my favourite new tool the sponge brayers rs which are superb value for money only £7.25 for two handles and four sponge rollers and make the best backgrounds. 141714 is the code.

I used the in colour ink pads to sponge four different bands and then used the Designer Tee sentiment to randomly stamp in the same colour tones over the background. Our small circle punch or the big eye in the owl punch, punched out the little smileys and then I topped it off with two Tee shirts from the Custom Tee.  This look really made me think of summer and festivals and sitting out listening to great music wearing a funky tee shirts and the expression "when your happy and you know it keep it up" just works perfectly.

Hope you enjoyed this project. Catch you tomorrow for more fun and inspiration. 💜