Welcome to NEW StencilGirl Artist Desiree Habicht

We are thrilled to welcome...

NEW StencilGirl Artist

Desiree Habicht

Before we show you her three new stencils and artwork here is 
Mary Beth with a welcome video!

Take it away Mary Beth.....

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Ready for those stencils????

 Heartfelt 9" x 12"

Tribal Men 9" x 12"

Woodcut Roses 6" x 6"

Now here is Desiree to show you how she used the stencils!!!

Hi everyone, my name is Desiree Habicht and I am a multi-media and mixed media artist. I love to work in many different mediums and fiber is one of my favorites! I have been playing on fabric with my stencils to explore different ways to incorporate them into my art quilts.

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 have been playing with different paints and fabrics so I can see how the stencils work under different conditions.

I have been thrilled with my results. I not only have made some small art quilts that I am mounting on canvas but I have incorporated various elements in my stencil to other art quilts and surfaces.

One of the things I like the best with my stencil, is that there are a variety of images so I can pull different looks into specific areas of my piece. I have been working on a large art quilt that I still haven't revealed to the public so you are getting a sneak peak on how I am incorporating different elements of my stencil onto the queens clothing and trims.

 

I can't wait to release my finished piece. I am also exploring the idea of just using the outlines part of the stencil as a pattern for overall quilting. You can see here how I was practicing my free motion quilting by using the stencil to draw a light pattern which i can follow with my stitching.

I have done it in a contrasting thread so you can see my stitching lines. 

I love the versatility of stencils! I had an opportunity to try the stencils with ceramic glazes on some plates.

 

I used the different stencils to apply glazes to the plate surfaces and then had them fired. I am very happy with the results I am getting on all these different surfaces.  I am still in the process of moving onto my sketchbooks! I hope you will check back and see what other great projects I have created using these wonderful stencils. You can see more of my work on my BLOG and WEBSITE. Happy Creating!! 

You can find all of Desiree's new stencils on our website TODAY!!!

Art Journaling with StencilGirl Guest Designer Frieda Oxenham

I am not who I was by Frieda Oxenham

I’m so pleased and proud to be back with you as the Guest Designer for StencilGirl.

I’m such a huge fan of these stencils and want to let everyone know how fantastic and versatile they are.

They are not only excellent for giving you images to use on your journal pages but also for making backgrounds using only certain areas of the stencils which means that you get much more

than you might have originally thought. 

I’m always discovering more uses for them and I love sharing that here with you.

You’ll notice, too, that I’m using stencils from the StencilGirl StencilClub.

These are unique designs you can only obtain by joining the club!

What are you waiting for?!

Here are the step by step instructions:

1.     Gesso pages in Dylusions journal.
2.     Scrape on yellow and orange paint and erase using a baby wipe and Nathalie Kalbach's Batik Stencil.
3.     Do the same as in step 2 using red (I used an iridescent red paint).

4.     Stamp text on as shown. I used Romantic Text stamp from Stampotique, designed by France Papillon. 

5.     Spray through Mary Beth Shaw's August 2014 Stencilgirl Club stencil using white permanent spray ink (I used Liquitex). 

6.     Add leaves. I used black leaves from a Designer Guilt Kashima wallpaper stencil book). They were glued on with matte medium. 

7.     Using Daniella Woolf's Succulents stencil and titanium white paint, stencil randomly on the pages with a cosmetic sponge. The Succulents stencil looks a lot like a rose, too, and here that’s is what I want it to be. 
8.     Repeat step 7 using light blue paint. Also add some blue paint randomly in various places including edges.
9.     Continue to use the blue and add little dots using stencil Seth Apter's Timeless stencil.
10.   Using  same stencil as in step 5 spray on Cosmic Shimmer Ink Spray Mist Aqua Breeze.

11.   Glue on vintage bud image as shown.
12.   Stamp on leaf image (Dylusions Around the Edge stamp DS006) with black Archival ink.
13.   Stamp on text (from Downa Downey stamp) on a separate piece of paper, tear out, add ink around the edges and glue on.
14.   Add more white dots and the word Timeless using Seth Apter's Timeless stencil.

15.   Drop Liquitex yellow ink down the page and encourage with a water spray.

16.   Mark the edges of the pages with Distress Ink Black Soot.

(c) Frieda Oxenham July 2015. To see more of Frieda's work, please visit her BLOG.

How to Pop Your Art with Subtle Use of Stencils

Hi! Kirsten Reed here today and I am going to show you how to incorporate stencils into your art in a subtle way.

I decided to work with a small 5x7 canvas, perfect size for gifts. 

I begin by marking my blank canvas with Marie McGuire's Doodle It Tornado Flowers stencil in various bright colors and no pre-determined pattern all over the canvas.  I use a cosmetic sponge for light dabbing.

The canvas begins to look like this:

I then sketched a small country church on to the canvas.  I see a lot of these where I live here in TN and they are so charming to me.  You could really sketch anything you wanted.

After my sketch is on the dried paint, I begin to block out SOME of the background.  I like to let bits and pieces "peek" through.  I continue by painting in some of the church.

I then decide to use one of Mary Beth Shaw's Stencil Club stencils to add in some cobbled looking roof tiles in gray paint.

I get this look.  I am not finished.  I purposely did not use paint everywhere, again to allow the background colors to peek through. 

I finish up the roof with some light dabs of white in various spots with the same stencil.

 Now, I do my finishing work.  I add shadows, paint the door and add some layers of blue in different shades to my sky.  All the while, allowing some colors to peek through.

I finish up the piece with a little pen work for details and incorporate the word "peace" along the front of the church.

Thank you for joining me.  I hope this helps spur some ideas on how you can use stencils subtly to rev up your artwork!  If you would like to see more of my work, please follow me on Instagram and Kirsten Reed Designs on Facebook.  Hope to see you again!

Art Journal Pages with Brigitta Budahazi

Hi Everyone! This is Brigitta Budahazi again.
Today I will show you how I created my latest page in my art journal with StencilGirl stencils.
Although there are only five layouts in my old Moleskine calendar which I converted to an art journal,
I’m having more and more fun in creating this kind of art. Hope you will like this two pager, too.

1. This time I did not put any gesso layers as a resist, as I wanted to achieve a watercolor effect.
First I glued a piece of scrapbook paper into the calendar. I recommend you to use watercolor paper or heavy weight and textured scrapbook paper (Authentique Paper scrapbook papers for example). The Faith collection has light colors and neat patterns, so I found it perfect for this purpose. I used Pentart Express glue.

2. Next, using Wall of Words stencil designed by Carolyn Dube and Pentart Transparent Wax Paste, I stenciled some sentences onto the right side of my layout. Since it was totally transparent, I did not noticed I’ve made a mistake. But no problem, in the end of the process I’ve fixed it. ;)

3. Then I got Silhouette of a Wildflower Bouquet stencil, designed by Cecilia Swatton, put it on the left side and using Pentart Media Mists in three different colors, I misted the pages. My intention was to achieve the colours of dawn or dusk. Looking at the photo at first sight you may think the waxed motif was covered by the mists. But I used a paper towel and removed the access from the waxed areas. I could do this because the wax is water resistant so the color of the scrapbook paper showed up.

4. After this I outlined the texts (and realized my mistake!) with a thick alcohol ink liner and using a thinner one I outlined the flower too.

5. Next, I traced two types of flowers from the Tropical Floral stencil designed by Traci Bautista (with a Uni-Ball gel pen) and filled the spaces between the flowers with dots (using the thick alcohol-ink pen).

6. As final touches I colored the spaces between the flowers with watercolor-pencils
and doodled 12 hanging stars.

Here are some close-ups of the finished layout:

Thank you so much for stopping by here on StencilGirlTalk and reading my post.
I would be happy to answer any questions you might have regarding this project.
You can contact me through my blog or

on Facebook.

Hello, from Hungary,

Brigitta Budahazi aka Gigi :)