Showing posts with label stencils. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stencils. Show all posts

Monday, December 29, 2014

Long time, no blog

Ugh. December is not my friend most years and this one was no exception. Sick all month with a variety of things, long distance Alzheimer FIL finally hospitalized and died Christmas Day morning (unbelievable timing, it should be against the law to die in December), and busy at work means I haven't blogged in weeks.

FIL passing is a good thing so don't wring yourselves dry in the comments. Been a long year of his wife ending up in a wheelchair after neck surgery and him going downhill quickly. It is a good thing he's gone, for himself included. He would have hated the burden he'd become.

Anyway, made a batch of gelli prints for a swap. Always fun to do a gelli session and this one happened while Rhonda was visiting. I'm leaving them small here cause there's so many but just double click to see them large.
Love the color change in this one. I put blue on one side of the plate, orange on the other and rolled them together a bit in the center, then printed thru a stencil onto a green background.


Love the crazy cheerful colors in this one.



This one is much cooler in person.


This one positively glows.

Another fun one. Background and two layers of stencils.




Friday, February 22, 2013

stencil alert

Hot stencil tip - Home Depot. 

I was in there this morning for a caulking gun and silicone for our new composter, and while I was wandering the aisles, I spotted stencils. 

Inexpensive stencils, to boot. Only $2.98 each. 

I bought the one pictured here as it was the only over-all pattern. There were 4 total, a couple of which are shown on the back of the packaging. It's nice plastic, would work great with paint, sprays, gelli printing, etc.

It's 8.5x11" so it will cover the medium 8x10 gelli perfectly. Hope to print a few with it over the weekend, so will update then.

Also have the Feb giveaways made, will post about those tonite hopefully...



Wednesday, December 21, 2011

stencil fun

I've been watching Julie FFB play with her stencils since they first came out and I finally couldn't stand it any more so I ordered some. I got mine from Collage Stuff, but Julie sells them on her site also. I bought Harlequin, Cubist, Wonky Circles, and Chevron in the 6x6" size. Tonite I hauled out my box of sprays and distress inks and a few ink pads and went to town.

These are really fun, easy to use, make cool pages, can be used in a zillion ways, will last forever with just a bit of care, and don't cost a heck of a lot. I call that a product worth having.

harlequin with blue jeans, then vintage photo distress stains

wonky circles with an ink pad, then chevron with wild honey, then harlequin with another ink pad
 
cubist with spun sugar distress stain

chevron with fired brick and then wild honey distress stain

cubist with purple spray ink

wonky circles with walnut spray ink, then harlequin with blue jeans distress stain

chevron with green spray ink

all 4 stencils

the products I used

my messy art desk

long shot of desk cause I love seeing other people's work spaces, so I figure you might too