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Find out how to get a carefully lined up look to your stenciled card making without having to use a ruler video tutorial by Carolyn Dube

The muse inspired me with rainbow rain and she wanted it nice and straight and measured.  All I was all in until the measured part…but I did get the look of measuring without going any where near a ruler.  How? I let the stencil do all the hard work!

This 4×4 raindrop stencil is part of the Sand and Sea Collection I designed for this month’s StencilClub offering.  I have another video sharing more you can do with this stencil on StencilGirl Talk (and all the details about StencilClub are there too).

Check out the video and see how not a single ruler was used as I printed the words on my inkjet printer and got that all perfectly lined up so it fit the front of my card magically.

Watch How to let a stencil do the hard work instead of measuring and add some sparkle with Glitter Paste on YouTube.

The card says, “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.”  The big question that plagued me, was I going to print that out by hand?

Since I have a love hate relationship with my handwriting, I let my inkjet printer handle the words.  No measuring to get this cut to match the exact card size I need.  How?  Its easier to show than tell, so check out the video above.

With my Learning to Dance stencil, this playful dancer is ready for some rainbow rain.

Find out how to get a carefully lined up look to your stenciled card making without having to use a ruler video tutorial by Carolyn Dube

The rainbow rain was great, but I wanted sparkle. Bring on the  Glitter Paste!

 

Find out how to get a carefully lined up look to your stenciled card making without having to use a ruler video tutorial by Carolyn Dube

This is the kind of rain I’d love to see fall from the sky any day…but since the rain doesn’t look like this in my neighborhood, I’ll just have to stick with stenciling rainbow rain!

Find out how to get a carefully lined up look to your stenciled card making without having to use a ruler video tutorial by Carolyn Dube

You can see how I turned these raindrops into bursting flowers over at StencilGirl Talk! And you bet, there is no measuring involved!

How to use a raindrop stencil to easily make flowers

Sand and Sea stencil collectionHere are all 3 of the stencils in the collection I designed for this month’s StencilClub for StencilGirl.  You can find all the details about it here.

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Let's Play May Recap and winner announced!

This month’s Let’s Play was all about do overs and permission to change your mind.  I worked on 4 art journal pages that I thought were all finished long ago, but when I flipped through the pages and saw them now, I didn’t feel the same way.  So I added more to them.  The links to each project and video is down below…but before that check out this month’s gift certificate winner, Annette!

Winner of this month's Let's Play giveaway!

Congratulations to Annette!  You’ve won this month’s Let’s Play $50 gift certificate to Michaels!  Send me an email at carolyn at acolorfuljourney dot com and I’ll get your gift certificate right out to you!

 

This art journal page was one giant oops in the end. It started out yuck to me and by the end of the video, it was still yuck to me. That happens sometimes! You can see the video here.

Giving this art journal page a do over as part of the Let's Play video series and it didn't turn out the way I expected!

 

This page was nice when I started, but I loved it when I was finished!  Enjoy the laugh in the video where I couldn’t see what was right in front of me..over and over!

Video sharing how to redo an art journal page with Carolyn Dube

This video has me adding white space but never fear, I added color right on top of it!  See how I used watercolors on wet white paint in the video!

Video sharing how Carolyn took an old art journal page and made it sparkle!

This page made a radical change and ended up with almost white space on a large portion of it much to my surprise…but it had sparkle too!  See it all here.

Video sharing how to redo an art journal page with Carolyn Dube

Next Tuesday, I’ll be back with next month’s theme for Let’s Play.  New to Let’s Play?  It’s all about specific ways that I rediscovered how to let myself play!  If you can’t wait and want to know more ways right now- check out my free mixed media workshop, Permission to Play!

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Snip, Sip and Sew Retreat hosted by Glenda Miles!

One way I let myself play is by being a beginner.  When it comes to sewing, I feel like a total newbie.  So when I heard about the Snip, Sip and Sew retreat hosted by Glenda Miles, I signed up!

If you’re a frequent blog reader you know I make quite a few Oopsies…and me with a sewing machine created plenty of opportunities for oopsies!  I actually managed to sew my fabric to the foot on the machine.  It wasn’t stuck.  It was actually stitched on to the free motion foot.  I have no idea how I did it, but it took me quite a while to cut it off of there!

You can see my sewing talents in a short video on Instagram here. You’ll see I like to sew fast and loose!

But that wasn’t the only Oops.  Check out the photo below.

Snip, Sip and Sew Retreat hosted by Glenda Miles!

I was actually being careful when I was stamping on the fabric as I spelled the word oops…and misspelled it!  OOPS big time! No problem, I just did it again right next to it!  What did we do with all this painted and stenciled fabric that we made?  It became a purse!

Snip, Sip and Sew Retreat hosted by Glenda Miles!

The purse has pockets, both inside and out.  And I didn’t have to use a pattern or carefully measure a thing!  It felt so good to accomplish this project even feeling like a newbie…I credit the 3 talented instructors for that!

Thank you Linda Willis, Kecia Deveney,  and Kari McKnight Holbrook for all the techniques, tips, and generous supplies!  I was so amazed by all the purses created by all the amazing women this weekend.  Every one was so unique!

Snip, Sip and Sew Retreat hosted by Glenda Miles!

There was far more than art to this weekend. There was heart. Glenda Miles orchestrated the weekend and she has a gift for creating safe spaces for creating and connecting.  I got to meet the most amazing women and the creative energy in the room was soul nourishing!

Snip, Sip and Sew Retreat hosted by Glenda Miles!

St. Mary’s Retreat is an amazing location.  So peaceful. So tranquil. Worked into our schedule was time to explore the grounds and take walks along the trails around the center. The rooms were extremely clean and the building was very well maintained and all our needs were taken care of!  Thank you Glenda!

Snip, Sip and Sew Retreat hosted by Glenda Miles!

This event included all our meals.  Homemade meals.  Scrumptious morsels for the taste buds like fresh homemade bread.  If you wanted to eat outside, you could.  Oh, was it ever glorious out there too!  The way it was planned allowed for freedom to be yourself. If you wanted to be around people you could.  If you wanted some time to yourself, you could.  Love that this was designed for both introverts and extraverts!

Snip, Sip and Sew Retreat hosted by Glenda Miles!

Want to create and connect with others?  Glenda puts together fabulous creative events and I highly encourage you to check them out! Glenda’s next event is Jacqueline Sullivan teaching at St. Mary’s Retreat- you can find all the details here!

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