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'm going to share a little bit about TCW229 Rain:
You get three sizes of drops in a single stencil! Kind of cool, if I do say so myself.
For my first project I traced and cut two sizes of the raindrops...
...and then paper pieced this kind of cool pattern:
I had planned to make it into a card, but it was just so pretty I decided to incorporate it into a layout instead:
Remember, templates are not just for getting messy. You can be quite clean with them too!
And here's a fun tip: combine two raindrops to create a heart:
You can also make flowers with the raindrops!
Isolate a single long raindrop and pounce through the opening with white paint...
...to create a daisy. You can experiment with different colors and the different sizes of raindrops.
And here's my finished piece:
And you can see more Rain Stencil daisies in this unfinished page in my art journal:
I used the rain stencil on a trio of tags:
(Video instructions for each tag can be found in my Stencil 101 class.)
And on this cute tag:
Some inking, some spraying, and a little watercolor umbrella.
Remember this art journal spread from my Art Journal Every Day post "A Seven Day Plan?"
You can see the raindrops all down the left-side of the page.
Finally, I was so inspired by Sabrina Alery's use of the Rain Stencil during the Clearsnap/TCW Hop that I had to create a similarly layered background:
Watch the video to see the layout come together:
To win both the 6x6 and 12x12 versions of the Rain Stencil, answer the Question of the Day:
In general do you prefer a video tutorial or written step-by-step with photos? Why?
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!
