Stencil Me In For the Next Class!

I am not very artsy but oh how I wish I were!  I have taken accordion lessons, piano lessons, organ lessons, tap dance lessons and sang in choirs - never solo!  I have taken several decorating classes and have yet to pick a room color that I like the first time.  My husband knows going in he will be painting the room twice before we are through.  Once he stayed up all night wallpapering our kitchen and I started pulling it off the walls the very next day - true story!  I am hopeless but I keep at it.  When I received a bundle of homemade SU cards as a gift I thought "wow wonder if I can do this?"  And so started my adventure in attending SU workshops and classes.   I am still behind the times on artsy stamping techniques but I am always up for a class.  One year at Convention Ann Schach was going to teach a few of us some basic brayering techniques and asked us all to bring ink and a brayer.  Everyone brought an ink pad and a brayer.......I brought an ink refill bottle and a brayer. Definitely hopeless......

But when my FMS pal Jen Mitchell said "Let's take an on line stencil class" I was game!  The class was terrific and I have been working on my homework.  Today's card was done following a basic technique from Lesson 1.  I simply shaded the stencil first in a lighter color (Soft Sky) then brought in the darker color (Island Indigo) and blended. The embossed vellum lets the colors come through in a muted tone.  Homework Lesson #2 coming soon........ 

This card was entered in Chupa's Case Study Challenge 176 and is a sample in my Creative Crew Gallery as well.