Welcome to my first Stencil Blog Hop! I invited four wonderful artist friends to hop along with me today and play with my StencilGirl Products Oldtimer Stencil which is a 6 x 6 Stencil:
You have four chances to win this stencil. Leave a comment on each of the listed blogs (Jamie’s comment function didn’t work in the morning – so if you posted on all blogs a comment that worked I will count them as if you did comment on hers too;) ) 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 July 30th, 2013 – midnight EST.
Edited August 4, 2013: The winner is Gerd Andersen – Congratulations. Gerd please email me with your postal address so I can get this stencil sent out to you :), Nat
Here are my friends joining me:
Jessica Sporn who does wonderful Mixed Media art and has her own amazing range of StencilGirl Product Stencils.
Stephanie Schütze – a super talented Scrapbooker from Switzerland
Jamie Dougherty – who is a super good workshop teacher and does stunning Mixed Media- and Scrapbooking-Projects
Maria McGuire – she does beautiful scrapbooking and Mixed Media Projects and coordinates also the awesome StencilGirl Products Blog called StencilGirl Talk
I am a big fan of oldtimer cars and so I knew I wanted to do this stencil for all kinds of projects. Check out some samples here:
Here is what I created for today:
I do love to create some depth with my stencils -so here is how I did it here. I sprayed through the Stencil with Liquitex Spraypaints- but you can use any other paint media.
Then I cut out the car – just around the outline
I picked a page in my art journal where I had already played a bit with a background and gathered some repositionable double sided adhesive, distress ink and a blending tool.
I adhered the old timer with the repositionable adhesive and then applied a bit darker distress ink with the blending tool – to outline the car.
I used another distress ink color and the stencil again, which I laid over the car again and went over it again with the blending tool.
As you can see it gave a another shadow- as the first sprayed stencil image still peaks through- and it adds already more depth to the oldtimer
Now I peeled of the oldtimer car and then carefully rubbed off the adhesive dots.
Next I placed the car directly onto the background into the before outlined borders-
I do this so later when you raise the car with foam pads- there is a shadow visible.
Then I cut out some faces that would fit behind the windows
and I cut out two windows of the oldtimer car on the paper
I applied foam pads to the backs of the faces
adhered them using the image of the oldtimer on the background and slightly a bit off
then I stacked two foam pads on top of each other- to give more height -to the back of the oldtimer car on the paper
and adhered the car also slightly off
and there you have it :) I think it is a great way to add dimension and depth with stencils.
Here are the supplies I used:
Now hop on over to my friends and check what they did and comment for some changes to win the stencil :)
Edited August 4, 2013: The winner is Gerd Andersen – Congratulations. Gerd please email me with your postal address so I can get this stencil sent out to you :), Nat
Jessica Sporn
Stephanie Schütze
Jamie Dougherty
Maria McGuire
Nat
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marsha.
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Can’t wait to get my hands on this one!!!
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Mary Beth
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Nat, this is one of my faves :) LOVE it!!! and I also LOVE what you did with it :)
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cuchy
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love the blanket. I see this elephant will bring you luck. It has its trunk upwards!
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Michelle McCosh
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I love love love elephants.
your stencil is fantastic.
Off to order them for the store!
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Debbie Sherman
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Love this stencil and your page is gorgeous! They say if you touch an elephant you achieve enlightenment.
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Corrine Gilman
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I can see the colors of India and smell the spices from the market…beautiful rendition of your new stencil….xox
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Kirsten Alicia
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Cool stencil, he (she?) looks like such a friendly elephant. And the journal page is gorgeous.
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Mary C. Nasser
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LOVE your new stencil and what you created with it!
It’s great that it’s like 2 stencils in 1!! :)
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Maria McGuire
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I am in LOVE with this Nat. My favorite part is the blanket on the elephant. I just draws me right in! Fabulous stencil!!!
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Gina Sismilich
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I also love elephants – I really love the colors on that journal page. Lovely work!
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Gerd Andersson
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Your art journal is so beautiful! I just love this Elephant & Arabesque stencils! Must have them!
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Madeline Rains
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I absolutely love this one! Even more than crackle, and that’s one I’ve been hoping for.
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Kathy p
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LOVE this stencil, Nat! The elephant is my very fave wild animal…..I spend a long time in the elephant sectio od any zoo! I can see me using this stencil for the animal and also just for the blanket. Great design!
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TaniaA
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I like how you have a mask in your supply list :) xxx
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Donna
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What a fun and wonderful stencil & Elephant waltz made me smile.
Thank you & peace,
Donna
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Jean A Marmo
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Ooohh – love this!
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Jean A Marmo
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Ooohh – love this!
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Fran
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How fantastic is this stencil. Just great…..
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Laurie Hunt
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Love love love this elephant. After a quick glance I headed straight over to stencil girl and put my order in for that one and a few friends. I am a little mad that you MADE me do that but I really can’t wait to get him cuz he is just COOL with the total caps!
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Jeanette Nyström (Jeany
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Wow, the stencil is soo cool! and the variations is many!
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Laura Strack
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I do love the elephant march stencil. It has fun written all over it!!
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