ATC's can hold a lot of techniques - 1

For some basics on using stencils, I tried all sorts of techniques on ATC's.

Here is how you make this background:
Paint matte medium on your stencil, print that onto cardstock.
Leave to dry.
Sponge with  different colors of distress inks.
You can choose to add some stamping, a script or so, but I chose to leave it like this.

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Magenta products used:

TM23