Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Circle Love Fest

Mary Beth Shaw's Circle Tiles stencil
Leslie here, having a love-fest with Mary Beth Shaw's fabulous Circle Tiles stencil.  Anyone who has looked at my work knows that I am obsessed with all types of circular shapes.  They reappear in my mark-making, stitching, and quilting with great regularity.  So, naturally, I fell in love with this stencil immediately!
Here are the surfaces I plan to work with.

The postcards were colored with Inktense Blocks and set with matte medium.
(I bought these at an art store while I was in SoCal recently and wanted to play with them).

I also bought a bunch of these large foam daubers, which I adore for using on stencils!
They work great for paint and acrylic inks.

Placing the Circle Tile stencil over the surface of the postcard..

I will cover the surface with white opaque paint.

I wanted to cover the journal pages around the glued-in-place postcards.

I love how this looks!

Now I will work directly onto one of the cards.

I like how the paint partially obscures the image below

Because I don't want to glop a lot of paint onto my work surface I have a 
paper palette next to my work area.  I put a small amount of paint on the palette
and pounce my dauber into it to minimize the amount of paint I pick up with the sponge.

Here is a partially covered paper...

Switching to a Cadminium light red I placed the stencil, point to point,
over a long piece of paper.

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In this case I moved the stencil across the paper diagonally, leaving 
some openings to the background exposed

I found this journal while in California with the natural brown paper
and I love it!

I hope you will pick up one of these stencils and play with it.
You will love it!



10 comments:

  1. Just loving this entire post. I want the stencil, love how you used it, and MUST get daubers. I have one question: how do you clean the dauber? With foam brushes, I just toss them (obviously I am seeking a better solution). Thanks for sharing.

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    1. Trece, I simply ran water over it repeatedly and "mooshed" (scientific word) out that paint until the water runs clear, then allow it to dry.
      I do the same with foam brushes. They seem to last a long time!

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    2. Thanks, I will have to give this a try!!

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  2. I love abstract work and this definitely is something I want to try - thanks for the inspiration!

    Carmen L

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  3. I loved how you used the circle stencil in a variety of ways. I should have bought those daubers when you did! Great post.

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    1. I love these things! They are rapidly becoming some of my favorite tools!

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  4. Beautiful Leslie! I'd love to find some of those daubers!

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  5. This is just gorgeous! Need a few of those daubers in my studio, too!

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  6. tx for sharing lesllie! really awesome cards, how do you guys come up with all these amazing ideas! tx for sharing tips like the foam pouncer, i just started using a foam dabber and it has changed my stencil life! aloha, angi in hana

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