Betty in Japan

Wanted to use the Asian Living Stencil Builder for my Stencil-Pencil obsessional quest! However I was struggling to make the indoor scene with it so decided to swap things about and use them for something different, and a new home for Betty – Good Luck Digistamp!

So to start out I used my watercolours to make a swirly bleedy blue/pink/green background to represent blossom trees. It went ok, but some of the running colours at first seemed a bit excessive! I ignored that, lol. I cropped this down into a square topper.

I then used the Asian Living Stencil Builder and my pencils to make a background scene, Betty’s Japanese pavilion house! Here is a look at the parts of the stencil –

And here is my version! In the stencil pack is also the top part of my temple, it really is just the stencil! I used the bamboo leaves to make a tree-leaf texture on the underside of my trees.

After I had finished my background I coloured up Betty – Good Luck to match my colours, so green and pink, and continuing the Japanese blossom theme. Here she is in the shop before I coloured her –

And her is my version of her –

After that I printed the sentiment I chose onto velum using Fortune Cookie NF font and added some strips of Japanese paper/tape to the strip. I also used a matching backing paper also from my stash.

As you know, I don’t like chucking bit and pieces from cards if I think they are interesting, and I had a section of trees I hadn’t used, so I used that to make a quick matching bookmark –

I also decided I would use my SA Hybrid Inks, Blossom and Shocking Pink and the Flower Stencil to make a matching patterned envelope for the card, you can see it in the background of my photo!

Thanks very much for having a look at Betty, she seems happy with her new house! You can see my stencil pencil journey if you look back through my older stencil pencil posts! I don’t think I have many left, Annie is pretty speedy at bringing out awesome new stencils though! 🙂