Without the Stars

The new LO idea on The Sketch File Blog is called "Starry Layers", but there's not a star to be seen on my first card using it - instead the threesome that makes the top layer on my card are some stencilled bicycles

 

I've been playing around with stencils quite a lot on this card, as not only are the bikes stencilled, but the horizontal stripe, and the rectangular 2nd layer are also stencilled - and then I added a bit more to add interest to the sentiment piece.

Info:

By first stencilling the bike shape onto an all-over sticky post-it note and cutting it out, I made a mask so that I could them stencil the bikes one behind another in different colours.

The bike is just one of the elements on this 

stencil:  Paris Holiday - Claudine Hellmuth

Once dry I cut around the whole shape and added a silver brad to each wheel

The yellow chevrons for the horizontal stripe and sentiment, plus the border design used to create the rectangular shape are from

 this stencil:  Hero Arts: - Stylish Borders

I just stencilled the design again and again in black ink until I had the size rectangle I needed, then added centres to each circle with 

a silver pen to look like wheels!

I die cut the pale blue oval and embossed with a chevron embossing folder (Crafter's Companion). 

 I just wish I'd used yellow for this bit, but too late now....

The sentiment was pc generated, trimmed down and the yellow 

stencilled bit added 

Here is the March sketch

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