Welcome to my second Stencil Blog Hop! Again I invited four wonderful artist friends to hop along with me and play with my StencilGirl Products Circuit Stencil which is a 9 x 12 Stencil
And I give away one Circuit Stencil!Comment her for an entry into this giveaway! And if you also comment on all the other listed blogs I will give you an entry into the giveaway for each blog you comment on–how cool is that! You have five chances to win it. Leave a comment on each of the listed blogs and on my blog and let us know how you like the projects and I will pick randomly one lucky winner. You have time to comment till August 6, 2013 – midnight EST.
Edited August 8, 2013: The winner is Dorothy McCarthy – Congratulations. Dorothy please email me with your postal address so I can get this stencil sent out to you 
, Nat
, NatEdited September 23, 2013: Although I tried hard to get the winner’s addy – I never heard back. I will do a new drawing from a different post soon as I am sure someone else will be happy to receive the stencil :)
Here are my friends joining me:
Stephanie Schütze who joined me last week already and did some amazing cards and a layout- I love her style!
Birgit Koopsen a close friend of mine, not only do I love teaching together with her…she is also super duper colorful in her work!
Marjie Kemper, I met Marjie in NYC a while back when I was teaching workshops- and she is doing amazing things on her blog – check her out!
Samie Harding – is a huge art journaler who also does a lot of fun videos on her art journaling.
I designed the Circuit Stencil because I do love technical signs in my work -I love when something is whimsy and then you can put some straight technical background to it. I also wanted to have a stencil which you can use as a background stencil but also to frame your work.
Check out some samples here:
Here is what I created for today:
It is a very simple yet colorful sparkling art journaling page :) I used Wendy Vecchi’s Golden Embossing Paste over the Stencil- simply scrape it over with an old credit card or hotel key card.
I let it dry and then used three different colors of Dylusion Sprays over it.
At some areas I dabbed the color off while still wet – so it got sparkly gold again, at some areas I just let the color sit and dry on top of the circuit pattern.
Next I used a water mister and laid out the Circuit Stencil over areas that weren’t covered yet with the pattern, spritzed over the stencil and used a rag to rub through the stencil. As the Dylusions get reactivated by water, you take off some of the colors and get a little Circuit Ghost Effect :)
Voila- a nice background that you can add photos, journaling, stamping etc. I simply used a little quote I liked, by Pablo Picasso – I love filling my art journal with quotes.
Here are the supplies I used:
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Now hop on over to my friends and check what they did
Have Fun
Nat
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Nancy Sapp
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Also saw you are doing a redo so thought I’d sign in TOO!
Thanks for the 2nd chance. I’d LOVE to win 1 of your stencils.
Grandma Nancy Sapp
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Susan (Sanna) Burgess
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Just saw you are doing a redo so thought I’d sign in for a chance~! Hugs, Sanna
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Carmen Lucero
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Nat, thanks for the second chance to win this awesome stencil! I had left you a comment before, and I still love this!!
Carmen L
cal8007 at aol dot com
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Susan Stimson
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I love all the creative things that you did with this stencil and would love the opportunity to win this.
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Dara Lynn
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Have loved this stencil from the beginning …..would love to play with it on my gelli, make tags…..layouts…totally a favorite to be for sure!!!
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Lynn Parker
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Love it!
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Lynn Parker
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Very inspirational- thank you for your clear instructions too!
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Lynn good
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WOW fantastic work. Would love to win and use this stencil.
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Barbara I.
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I love the circuit stencil Thanks for showing us how you used it on your journal page and sharing some new supplies that I am not familiar with. Your techniques have my brain percolating with some new ideas! I appreciate the chance to win this stencil. It looks like it would be a lot of fun to use in many art projects.
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Grenae
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Great stencil! Would like to try the embossing paste. Your finished art journal page is so colorful – love it!
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wendy
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Oh my, this is a stencil that’s right up my alley! I’m a software engineer by day, art journaler whenever I can get away with it, and this stencil would be perfect for my pages! I love what you’ve done with it – just gorgeous!
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linda trapp
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love this stencil! The energy in your work vibrates off the page.
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Cuchy
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Those are colours!!! awesome background.
Your stencil make it shine!
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Louise
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What a fabulous page, I adore your colours and love the way you have used your fabulous funky stencil- by adding and then subtracying, its like an acho <3
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Carmen Lucero
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Nat, your project is absolutely fabulous. The way those inks shine and your stencil plays with them is great! Thanks for sharing and for the chance to win!
Carmen L
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Gemma maggs
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I love this stencil and the colours you have used are beautiful. The journal page is beautiful.
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Buttons
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Love this stencil design! Reminds me of London Underground. Hugs, Jenny x
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KrisKreates
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Love the stencil and I want to get out my modeling pastes and play!! I’m a scientist and a papercrafter and technical art items always appeal to me!! Great design and ideas
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Suzanne
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What a great mouth watering new stencil!! It’s just perfect and I’m dying to get my hands on it. Absolutely stunning work with it too. Suzanne
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Susan
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Wow! This stencil is great! I would be jumping for joy to win. You are very talented!
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Linn
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Ohh what an awsome page, love how the gold circuits pops through! Also that stencil lordy lord it has seriously so much creative play and potential. I almost short circuited when I first saw it. It is a MUST have stencil for sure!
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