A Happy Birthday

My current joyful pursuit of all things stenciled with embossing paste continues!  This time, I used black paste through a scripty stencil over a white tag . . .

The skinny letters emerged crisp and non-mooshed – nice surprise!  It's all about the paste, folks – certainly not because of any particular skill of mine . . . 

The herringbone pattern on the smaller tag was stenciled with white pigment ink and then white embossed.  I initially tried stenciling the herringbone design with white paste, but the color came out a sickly white instead of the crisp chalk white I wanted.  So now I'm on the prowl for a true, pure white stenciling paste – anybody out there know of one?

Cardstock:   Bazzill Raven, Strathmore Ultimate White

Stamps:        Sweet ‘n Sassy Long Stem Silhouettes, text from Verve

                           set Poppy Birthday

Inks:               ColorBox Frost White, Brilliance Rocket Red, Ancient

                           Page Pine

Emb Powder:   Sweet Stamps Detail White, Vippies Transcendence

Dies:              DieNamics Stitched Traditional Tag Stax, Sweet ‘n Sassy

                           Long Stem Silhouettes

Stencil:          The Crafter’s Workshop Mini Art Is, My Favorite Things

                           Diagonal Bars

Doo Dads:    Studio 490 Embossing Paste Black, jute cord Red