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School’s Out Scxrapbook Page | Using Silhouette Stencil Material

It’s nearly the end of the school year with one week to go I can’t believe that my little boy has been at school for a whole year and he is not even 5 yet!

That’s right he’s one of the really little ones! So I’ve made this beautiful scrapbook page to commemorate his first year at school using the Silhouette Stencil Material.

Here is how I did it.

I chose two school themed designs to cut out to form the basis of my scrapbook page. The first part I cut from the stencil material. Once I had opened the first file I resized the canvas to the same size as the stencil material using the drop down menu on the page set up screen.

I then cut it out using the stencil material settings. I did change them slightly by setting the blade depth to 8. This meant that it cut out the material cleanly. I also decided to cut out the second design from plane orange cardstock using the default plain cardstock settings.

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I love using distress inks in my scrapbook pages so I was super excited to give it a go with the silhouette stencil material. I started by using a blending tool and covering the background of my paper with the distressed ink – squeezed lemon.

Once I was happy with the coverage for the background (and you don’t have to be too neat with this to get the distressed look), I prepared the stencil material. The backing of the material is really sticky so to remove some of the stickiness I pressed the sticky side to the carpet a few times. I did this so that it wouldn’t stick too strongly to the paper and would be easy to remove. I then positioned the stencil on the 12 x 12 scrapbook page and used the blending tool and the spiced marmalade distress oxide ink to add colour to the design.

Once I was happy with this I used the festive berries ink to add a bit of depth to the design. Once I was happy with this I moved the stencil and repeated the processes in different areas of the page using different distress inks.

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To add more depth to the scrapbook page I used a black marker pen to add a shadow to the stencil image.

I also added in the second stencil images as a type of boarder to the left hand side of the scrapbook page.

I first used the orange oxide and the blending tool to add ink to the edge of the stencil images.

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I really liked using the Silhouette Stencil Material and it worked really well with the distressed inks and blending tools. I especially liked it because they can be reused on different surfaces and projects.

Now that the ‘School’s Out’ scrapbook page is finished I will add a photograph of my little boys last day of school.

– Helen Williams –

• Design Used: School Badges
Design Store Artist: Tanya Batrak
Design Store ID: 56276 > Download

• Design Used: Background Stencil
Design Store Artist: Tanya Batrak
Design Store ID: 64950 > Download