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I’m playing with Orly Avineri’s Soft Bones stencil from StencilGirl, one of her 5 new stencils. I’m not the only one playing – this is a blog hop! With a giveaway too!
PanPastels are a fast and easy way to build a pattern with a stencil because you don’t have to wait for a thing to dry. Since I am patience impaired, I love that I don’t have to wait…
Check out the video where I show you how I used one part of the stencil Soft Bones with Phthalo Blue PanPastel.
I rarely seal PanPastels in my art journal but when I do, I use the Gelli Plate to do it. I’ve got a video showing how – Sealing PanPastels with a Gelli Plate .
Giveaway details!
THE PRIZES: 5 lucky winners, each will get one of Orly’s new releases.
Leave a comment on my blog to be entered. Want more chances to win? Leave a comment on each of the blogs in the hop for a total of 11 chances! One comment per blog of course…
Giveaway closes on Sunday, June 29th at 11:59 PM Central time.
Happy Mail! The latest issue of Pages arrived with my article in it! Lots of great articles in here, but I am a bit partial to the one on page 25. I’ve got a copy to give away to one lucky blog reader (no matter where you live)! I’ll be drawing a random winner on Friday the 27th so leave a comment to be entered!
I’ve got bonus photos of the journal in the article that I’ll be sharing exclusively with my newsletter readers in my next newsletter. Need to sign up? Easy to do! Just click here to sign up for my newsletter.
****The giveaway is closed. Congrats to Terry!*****
Get Messy? Yes, that is the challenge for the Craft Hoarders and StencilGirl Products blog hop! In the spirit of Craft Hoarders I used up some of my hoarded items. But I was quite surprised by what went through my head as I made this art journal page…and there’s great giveaway info at the end of this post too.
In the video, I make 2 background papers and this is the one I had intended to use. Didn’t even take a photo of the other…guess which one I ended up using? The other one, of course.
I used that other paper to make this painted flower with Maria McGuire’s Doodle It Dahlia. Those gems, they were something I was hoarding. As I used it for the first time, all I kept thinking was, “What if I run out?”
Really? This was crazy because if I ran out of those then I’d find something else in my stash to do it. Then I realized how this little bit of bling was not going to use up the entire roll of gem tape that I had.
The other thing I realized is how dangerous it is to put glitter in my hands. The urge to sparkle every square inch of this art journal page was strong. The kind of sparkle that you would expect a 5 year old to do if you gave them a bottle of glitter glue…I did contain myself but fair warning….I might not next time….
StencilGirl Products will be picking FIVE winners this week–one from each day! I know it is already Thursday so if you missed the first 3 days, never fear! You have until Sunday, June 22nd at 11:59pm Central Time to leave your comments to be entered to win. The more blogs you comment on, the more chances you have to WIN! One comment per blog please. Looking for the blogs from other days of the week? Check out the posts from those days over at StencilGirl Talk.
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