Holiday Wall Hanging with StencilGirl Stencils

Hi, everyone! Brigitta is here!

The holidays are just around the corner, so I wanted to create a holiday-themed project.

I hope you will make your own version, too.

Stencils used:

Traci Bautista's Love Collage

Caroline Dube's Wall of Words
Daniella Woolf's Succulents

1.                  Mediums I used: cardboard (5" x 7”), white gesso, black gesso, crackle paste, glaze effect wax paste, black mist and white ultrafine glitter (not seen on this picture). First I painted the cardboard with a light coat of white gesso.

2.                  Next, where I planned to create the later pine tree, I stenciled Succulents, using white heavy gesso. So now I had a special structure for the tree. Then I grabbed the Love Collage stencil. You can see there are branches in the left upper corner of the stencil. I used this part (turning left to right) and created the shape of my pine tree. I used black heavy gesso for masking its silhouette, putting on the heavy gesso with a craft knife, so I got some great structure again.

3.                 I imagined that this pine tree was standing somewhere in the fields in a dark starry night, so I misted around the tree with a glittery black mist. This mist contains ultrafine glitter so now “my dark sky” shined when you turn it to a lamp. Great! Although I accidentally misted some parts of the tree as well, I just covered these later with white gesso again.

4.                 I love mixed media projects that contain text in the background as a design element. So I stenciled Wall of Words stencil in the sky, using heavy black gesso.

5.                  There is a special medium called glaze effect wax paste. Using my fingertips, I put a very light coat of this wax onto the previously stenciled letters. So the letters popped from the background and started to shine in a very special glittery and frosty shade of blue.

6.                  I didn’t forget to create snow! With the Love Collage stencil again, I stenciled dots using crackle paste. Before the paste dried I poured ultrafine white glitter to the surface, so the glitter stuck to the paste. Now I also have some glittery snow on this frosty night! Yay!

7.                  As a final touch, I covered the upper part of my wall hanging with a thick coat of solvent based glossy varnish. After the varnish dried, I glued some half beads here and the words PEACE ON EARTH.

Below are photos of the finished project and details:

Hope you like my project and will try these techniques in the future!

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 :)