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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Lisa Flaherty
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In our valley there is a master-planned community (Valencia, CA) that ran an ad campaign calling themselves “Awesometown.” We refer to the valley as a whole as “The Bubble”–very clean, unadulterated, piped-in music, low crime–niceties, but I think it lends to a shocking reality when the kids grow up here and then head into the world.
My quiet, beachside hometown of Pacifica, CA was referred to as Pathetica by the sulking, brooding teens. Lol!
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Sue Clarke
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Danville was formerly known as Hawke. I’m not sure what I would call it if I could make up a name. I like Danville since it is the name of the city that Phineas and Ferb are from (in the cartoon).
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Andrene
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Charleston (SC) is known as The Holy City mainly because of the many old churches, which are really visible on the skyline. It is a very pretty and old city and one you would like, Nat. Downtown Charleston is full of old buildings and houses with beautiful gardens, streets lines with palmetto trees and even a few cobblestone streets. I could see canvas inspiration for you in Charleston!
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Gerd Andersson
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Love the coloring of your canvas and the cranes singing to the sky!
My memories from Hamburg is huge parcs/places with small lakes, where people walked their dogs.
Stockholm – Venice of the North – as the city is situated on several islands, has many bridges, “Gamla stan” the old town is built on stilts like Venice.
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nathalie-kalbach
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Gerd that is soooo funny- they call Hamburg Venice of the North too- and even say- it has more bridges than Venice. I wonder how many cities here do this- LOL
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Gerd Andersson
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I guess, there are many, like “Little Paris” as well.
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SusanJane
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Santa Rosa is basically the Heart of Wine Country. Sonoma Country here in northern California actually has more vineyards then the world famous Napa area.
Hey, i too love the ship yards! I’m also silly about those big yellow earth movers — dump trucks, etc. Absolutely no idea why.
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nathalie-kalbach
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Ohhh I love Sonoma Country! I have friends there and we visited them quite often – time to go back soon ;)
Totally love earth movers too – although the ones in the US seem to be wayyyy bigger then here- LOL.
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SusanJane
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Please, please, please offer a class in Santa Rosa! There is no way I can travel to the places you’ve taught. Our locally owned real art store has a room especially for classes. Please?
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Riikka
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I’m loving these canvases! They have so much emotion in them. You are a true artist!
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nathalie-kalbach
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You are such a sweetheart! :) Huge hugs , Nat
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Charlotte
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I will be in Hamburg, as a tourist, for a few days in the first week of August – thanks for the tip! Apparently some people refer to my home town as “the Las Vegas of England”, but that’s very misleading! There are other, less.. polite nicknames too, but we won’t go there…
Love this, and all your canvases so far – good luck for the exhibition! :)
Love and hugs x
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nathalie-kalbach
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Oh how fun Charlotte! You will like it- especially when the weather is nice ;) Huge hugs- and let me know when you are here- maybe we can meet for a coffee/tea if it is not too crazy around here ;) Nat
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