Thursday, January 2, 2014

Pulling Apart A Stencil

Happy New Year Stencil Lovers!
Janet here with some insight on how I
pull apart a stencil and use bits and pieces of it.

I view stencils as tools.
I can use them any way I want.
This part...That part...
Focal points...Background textures...Beautiful Borders...
All's fair in Love and Art!


Take Maria McGuire's butterfly stencils...
There is so much detail in each one of these.


The border is part of the butterfly body...


This side border is a different part of the butterfly body....


The different sized flowers are part of a wing....

This part of the wing reminded me of an exotic flower.


So that is what I did.
It is a great beginning to a Daily page.



In my Daily I make many medallions...
I used a part of the butterfly body to make the flower petals on this one...


Another good beginning on a Daily spread...

I used this same butterfly from the Duo Stencil on these next two spreads...
Here...
And here.... 

On this next one I used the bigger butterfly and centered it differently.


Just for a little change of pace....



And lastly...
I start out many pages with abstract kind of borders.
I used this part of the body to create a pattern....



And then I used the little pattern from the wing
and bordered the outside of the page.


There are so many different ways to use a stencil.
Sometimes you just need to use fresh eyes when you look at them!
Just think of all the possibilities on the StencilGirl website!
Happy Arting!

4 comments:

  1. That's such a clever use of the butterfly stencil.

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  2. I'm with you Janet! The parts are so much more than the whole. Instead of one design, each stencil has endless possibilities when combined with others! Your pages are wonderful!

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