Use a stencil

Happy Maytime everyone. My birthday month and lots of hope for some extra daylight, sunshine, meals outside and summer holidays. And after the weather that we have endured recently, we certainly deserve some sunshine!
Over on the CountryView Crafts blog, our theme is "Use a stencil".

I have been playing with new stencils from Darcy Wilkinson, from Paperartsy; and using the wavy edge on this particular one, to create land and seascapes.
This one, which I didn't use for this project is the stencil showing the possibilities of creating water.

I created the sky and the land by applying various colours of Archival ink to my card. I applied it using my blending tool!

Here is the finished background....I masked off the sun with a post-it note cut to size.

I added some rays of the sun, some extra shading and then, using the stencil again, added some clouds and some hanging creepers using Black Archival.

I stamped the foreground with some Darcy Stamps. EDY18 from Paperartsy.

Finally, I added a little highlighting with a white pen.

Thankyou for looking. I hope that you will find more inspiration on using stencils over on the CountryView Crafts blog.

This month alongside our Challenge, we are also running a Blog Hop with a Sizzix Big Shot Machine & Die Bundle as the prize. To enter, you must be a Follower of our Challenge Blog and Hop along to each of our Design Team Members Blogs and leave a comment. We will still be running our normal monthly challenge and those who link their Use A Stencil projects will also be entered into our £20 Voucher draw. The Winners will be picked at random in early June.  So hop on over to Christine's 1st Project - Use A Stencil.

After commenting here, please hop over to Brenda. 

Products Used:- Darcy Stencil. Darcy Stamp.