Welcome to Stencil-a-Palooza! Several days a week for the next month or so I'll be featuring one of my eighteen stencil designs for The Crafter's Workshop! Each post comes with a giveaway. Leave a comment answering the question-of-the-day and you might be the winner of that day's featured stencil in both 6x6 and 12x12! Comments will remain open on this post for seventy-two hours. The winner will be announced after that. In the meantime, if you'd like to purchase any of the stencils there are many in-person and online shops to choose from. See a complete list here.
Today I've got an awesome stencil hop with five of my favorite paper artiste types:
- Mou Saha: You have probably seen Mou's scrapbook pages throughout Creating Keepsakes Magazine, where she is a Contributing Writer. She is also on the design teams for a myriad of companies including Anna Griffin, 7gypsies, Faber-Castell, and Crate Paper.
- Kelly Purkey: Kelly is a scrapbooker and graphic designer who has designed product for American Crafts, and more recently for Studio Calico. She travels all around the country teaching scrapbooking classes!
- Amy Tan: She is the girl behind "Amy Tangerine" -- a line of scrapbooking products just released by American Crafts, and the hip t-shirt label by the same name, available at stores such as Bloomingdale's and Neiman Marcus.
- May Flaum: Her most recent book, Scrapbook Workshop, is currently available for sale. May is also a long-time teacher at Big Picture Classes and a Contributing Editor to Scrapbook Update.
- Roben-Marie Smith: She is an art journaler extraordinaire! Roben-Marie has been widely published, teaches classes both online and in-person, and has a fantastic mixed-media store (which sells stencils, by the way)!
I sent these girls both of the "word" templates. Yesterday's TCW217 Trust Your Heart:
And today's featured stencil TCW216 If you believe:
They were invited to use either or both stencils.
As for me, I'm going to show off some ideas for "If You Believe."
Like yesterday's word stencil, this one is also a mask. I was inspired to make it after painting this painting:
I just really, really love the saying I came up with for this painting -- and I think it's true.
I used it in my art journal:
And on a canvas (which did not photograph well -- it's shiny and glossy and has so much depth of color and texture in person):
And on this layout I "stamped" with the mask:
I also used the Fragmented Flower and Punchinella stencils on this layout (to create the center area's background).
Lately, I'm liking doing a lot of journaling on my layouts. It's not always easy to find a place for so much writing on a "pretty" layout, but I'm trying.
I always try to do something to make my layouts "special." A little extra touch that someone else might not have thought of. On this layout I took a leftover flower I had glittered for another project and I made two little tags and linked them all together with embroidery floss.
And there's that big beautiful title, done with the If You Believe stencil. But how? Well, there are actually several different mediums you can use. Check out the video tutorial:
Here are the samples from the video:
And don't forget that you can pick out a single word from the quote if you'd like:
To win both the 6x6 and 12x12 versions of the If You Believe Stencil, answer the Question of the Day:
Which of the projects from the hop is closest to your personal art-making style?
Just a reminder: To be eligible to win, you must post your comment in the comment section of this blog post. You cannot post on Facebook or by replying to the e-mail (if you subscribe) in your inbox. The reason for this is that I pick a winner via "random number generator" so I need a single list of comments.
Thanks for stopping by! Now get hopping!
