The October StencilClub Exclusives from Cat Kerr

This month's StencilClub designer is Cat Kerr, 

check out her video below for her inspiration behind this set. 

Joining StencilClub means you have access to the coolest stencils around. Stencils that aren't sold anywhere else except to club members. Artist designs, made especially for club members. 

Each month, you get the following:

• Two 9" x 12" EXCLUSIVE Stencils. 

Always Artist Designed

Sometimes there will be 2 designs, other times there will be multiple designs on two stencils.

• An EXCLUSIVE video for MEMBERS ONLY provided by the designing artist. It's a class in itself!

• A downloadable PDF with basic instructions to go along with the video for that month.

• Entrance into a SECRET Facebook group for MEMBERS ONLY! A place to share, inspire and talk all about stencils!

• Plus, as a MEMBER, you are eligible to purchase ANY past month for the membership price.

• StencilClub members receive a loyalty coupon code each month good for 25% off stencils in the public collection. It can be used more than once.

StencilClub is only:
$25 USD - United States, monthly 
$35 USD - International, monthly

And these prices include shipping!

Join StencilClub Today!

Milagros, Hearts, and Alchemy

Not quite the Cinco de Mayo you may have planned? Yup. We feel that too. However, StencilGirl is super excited about these new hand-drawn stencil designs by Laurie Mika.

Laurie Mika has a thing for hearts and she has a bathroom filled with her collection of hearts from around the world. 

It is these tin hearts that became the source of inspiration for this collection of heart stencils. Laurie's favorite hearts are Mexican folk art sacred hearts and a lot of her polymer clay shrines incorporate this type of imagery so she wanted to design stencils that could be used with polymer clay as well as with paper arts and collage.

Cut the Four Sacred Hearts Stencil into 4 parts, and the ATC stencil into 9 hearts for ease of use. Perfectly sized for ATCs but you can use them anywhere in your art.

Over the past few years, the influence of Medieval art has also informed much of Laurie's polymer clay work but more recently she has been drawn to the imagery of alchemy, the medieval forerunner of chemistry. From anatomical hearts to the Hand of Mysteries, she adores the mystery and magic associated with Alchemy and this was the source of inspiration for these stencils that are a wonderful addition to making Medieval looking shrines.

The Alchemy Stencil depicts hearts, eye(s), a skull with a crown, a sun, and the Hand of Mysteries.

Mexico is the source of inspiration for Laurie's collection of Milagros (miracles), the tiny tin charms that are used for healing purposes and votive offerings. Milagros are often in the shape of body parts because they were used to give thanks for the healing of a particular ailment.

Cut the Milagro Stencil into 6 designs for ease of use: an ear, an eye, a pair of eyes, a hand, an arm, and breasts with the word brave underneath.

Laurie actually took some of her favorite milagros, made a mold from them, and used them with polymer clay that she then embedded. She used these polymer clay milagros to create the actual designs for my stencils.

If you want to create with these stencil designs you can get them HERE.