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….

Watch Using up some of my stash in an art journal on YouTube.

What would a Blog Hop be without a GIVEAWAY??!!!

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.

Here are Thursday’s blogs:

• Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge Blog
• Gloria Stengel
• Jan Marie Ennenga
• Karen Zueger
• StencilGirl Talk Blog
• Carolyn Dube- You’re here!
• Maria McGuire

Supplies Used

• Doodle It Dahlia stencil
• Uplifting Words stencil
• Heavy bodied white paint
• Spray Inks

It’s summertime here.  Kids think of the pool.  I think of spray painting outside. As I brought my Liquitex spray paints out to the picnic table, I knew there was going to be an Oops.  There always is with me.  The Oops today was a gift that let me see overspray in a new way.

I covered over an old canvas that never went anywhere with  Cadmium Yellow Light Hue spray paint.

Cerulean Blue Hue spray paint and the Opera House stencil created the next layer.  But there was an Oops…

Notice that messy edge where the spray paint went over the stencil?  I spent about a nano second scolding myself for not putting down a piece of paper to mask it and prevent it.  Then I remembered, it is just an Oops.  

This top layer of Vivid Lime Green let some of the blue peek through creating more depth without any hard work.

How’d I do it?  I put the stencil exactly on top of the image already spray painted.  Then shifted it a hair to one side and sprayed.

The Gift in the Oversprayed Oops

Remember that overspray Oops with the blue?   That overspray encouraged me to just cover the edges  while I adding the green Opera House layer. The actual stencil created the frame as well as the image.

That got me thinking about overspray and how else I could use it to my advantage.

Here’s a work in progress from later in the day.  It uses the overspray from the Opera House stencil to create a subtle touch to the composition.  Gives me a feeling of the sunshine coming from the Chevron Doily stencil.

Once again…the Oops gives me a gift.

 Supplies Used

• Liquitex Spray Paint
• Empress Opera House
• Chevron Doily
• Diamond Waves
• Wonky Eyes
• Chain Mail large