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I am a huge fan of Michelle Ward! Not only does she have the most amazing sense of design- she is a wonderful teacher. If you ever have the opportunity to take a class with her, do it! You can imagine my excitement when I heard she created 8 new stencils and a blog hop!
As I looked at her Segments Stencil from StencilGirl, I decided to play and stencil on a canvas. I treated the canvas just like an art journal. Same techniques. Same fun.
Want to see more of Michelle’s stencils in action? There are lots of great ideas in this hop! Be sure to leave a comment to be entered in the giveaway! All the hop giveaway details are over on StencilGirl Talk. Best part – every comment you leave on every blog in the hop is a chance to win. One comment per blog please (but you probably guessed that). The giveaway will end on Friday, Jan. 31st at 11:59PM Central Time.
Welcome to day 5 of Stencil Week celebrating my latest release at StencilGirl! Today might be the last day of Stencil Week but never fear….there will be more stencil and creative fun coming here on the blog and on YouTube! If you don’t want to miss any of the fun you can subscribe/follow all sorts of ways on the sidebar to the right.
Today’s play started with a little pen work while watching TV. I traced only parts of it. By tracing with a pen, a waterproof pen by the way, it opens up so many options for using only some lines and shapes in a stencil.
In the video, I show you how I colored these in and how I outsmarted the inner critic who tried to bully me into not creating.
Want to win the stencil I used in this project? I am giving away one of these stencils to a randomly selected winner! To be entered all you need to do is leave a comment telling me what is most likely to get in your way when you decide to make time to play.
Want another chance to win? Just share it (Facebook, Google Plus, Pinterest, Twitter, etc.) and come back and leave another comment telling me where you shared it!
I’ll be announcing all the randomly selected winners from Stencil Week next Friday, Jan. 31st. right here. Be sure to be entered before random.org picks the winners for your chance to win! And yes, international folks are eligible too!
Welcome to day 4 of Stencil Week! Play is so very important to me and for more than just the fun. I learn when I play. Learning that only happens when I let the paint take me where it will take me.
I was playing around making some tags as colorful organizers for on my Clip It Up . Just playing around not knowing where it would go. WOW! It took me to a whole new place all because I don’t like to clean!
But I do show you in the video an easy way of cleaning a stencil with dried paint, actually weeks of dried paint on it. But I am going to go right back to filling that stencil in with paint because I so love the effect- might even try it on some others…
Want to win a Union Small Stencil that I used in this project? I am giving away one of these stencils to a randomly selected winner! But that is not all! I am also giving away 3 sets of J Hooks (40 hooks per person) to 3 other winners so 4 giveaways in all today!! To be entered all you need to do is leave a comment telling me one supply or technique that you wish you were more comfortable using.
Want another chance to win? Just share it (Facebook, Google Plus, Pinterest, Twitter, etc.) and come back and leave another comment telling me where you shared it!
I’ll be announcing all the randomly selected winners from Stencil Week next Friday, Jan. 31st. right here. Be sure to be entered before random.org picks the winners for your chance to win! And yes, international folks are eligible too!
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. Just playing around not knowing where it would go. WOW! It took me to a whole new place all because I don’t like to clean!