DIY Postage Collage Card Using Stencils

I seem to be on a stenciling kick lately and this card is no exception. Waffle Flower has a lot of different stencils for their Postage Collage die. This is one of the newer stencil sets.

I used the Postage Collage die to cut down a piece of cardstock.
I used the Postage Collage Cupcake laying stencils to color the images.
There are four stencils in the set, which allows you to add different colors for each of the images.

Once I had the images colored, I decided to cut each one apart instead of leaving it as one piece.
This gives the appearance of stamps for each of the individual images.
I cut down some blue cardstock for each of the “stamps” to add as mats for each one.

Because I was making this larger than an A2 card, I needed to cut down a piece of 8 1/2 X 11 piece of cardstock.
I used my scoring tool to score my paper where the fold in the card would be.
Once I had my paper scored, I folded it over to create my card and cut off the excess paper using my paper cutter.
For the background of my images, I found a piece of pattern paper in my stash that I thought would work well behind my images.
I used Master Layouts to cut down the pattern paper and set it aside until I had all of my pieces ready for assembly.

I stamped and then heat embossed my sentiment before using the coordinating die to cut it out.
Once I had all of my pieces for the front of my card, I started arranging them on the front of my card.
Once I had decided the placement, I glued the upper left hand piece and lower right hand piece directly on my panel.
Because the other three “stamps” overlapped the first ones I had glued to the card, I added some foam tape to those images where they did not overlap the ones already on my card base and glue to the areas that would overlap.
Once I had all of my “stamps” in place, I positioned the sentiment to the card using both foam tape and glue.

For the inside of my card, I stamped and heat embossed my message.
I then added some ink blending to the outer edges of my panel before adhering it to the inside of my card.
I had one “stamp” that would not fit on the front of my card so I added it to the lower right hand corner.