Get Your Groove On with StencilGirl...LAST DAY!

Welcome to

Day THREE – FINAL DAY of

The Groove Tool & StencilGirl Products

Blog Hop!

Welcome to the last day of Art-C's Groove Tool & StencilGirl Blog Hop!

What fun we've had!

Hasn't the inspiration been fabulous!

A great BIG thank you to Art-C

for sending each of our StencilGirl Creative Team members The Groove Tool to play with!

We aren't done yet! Follow the links below to see today's projects.

Gwen Lafleur
Check out Gwen groovin' in her travel journal!

See all the details on her blog HERE.

Janet Joehlin
Janet created this lovely Documented Life Project journal page!

See all the details on her blog HERE.

Today's Blog Hop Order

StencilGirlTalk
Gwen Lafleur
Janet Joehlin

**If you missed any of the projects so far from this week, keep scrolling down the page.

What would a Blog Hop be without a GIVEAWAY??!!!

StencilGirl Products will be picking one lucky winner

to receive The Groove Tool along with

a $25 StencilGirl Products Gift Certificate!

Take your time and visit each blog showcased today through Wednesday and leave a comment.

The more blogs you comment on, the more chances you have to WIN!

One comment per blog please.

You will have until Saturday, September 26th at 11:59PM Central Time to leave your comments.

The winner will be announced on

StencilGirl's Facebook page on Sunday, September 27th.

If you don't already, we would LOVE if you would signup

for our newsletter HERE

and join us on  Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest and Bloglovin for more inspiration!

Thanks for hopping with us!

Get Your Groove On with StencilGirl...Day 1!

Welcome to

Day ONE of

The Groove Tool & StencilGirl Products

Blog Hop!

StencilGirl Creative team members are playing with Art-C's Groove Tool...

and StencilGirl Stencils of course!

Get ready! Mary Beth Shaw is hopping along with us!

This blog hop will continue today until Wednesday

with new projects EVERY day!

Sit back and enjoy a fabulous range of projects for THREE days!

We hope to inspire you!

Mary C. Nasser
Mary is getting her groove on wood panel with mixed media!

See all the details on her blog HERE.

Mary Beth Shaw

Mary Beth's feeling groovy in her art journal!

See all the details on her blog HERE.

What would a Blog Hop be without a GIVEAWAY??!!!

StencilGirl Products will be picking one lucky winner

to receive The Groove Tool along with

a $25 StencilGirl Products Gift Certificate!

Today's Blog Hop Order

StencilGirl Talk

Mary C. Nasser

Mary Beth Shaw

Take your time and visit each blog showcased today through Wednesday and leave a comment.

The more blogs you comment on, the more chances you have to WIN!

One comment per blog please.

You will have until Saturday, September 26th at 11:59PM Central Time to leave your comments.

The winner will be announced on

StencilGirl's Facebook page on Sunday, September 27th.

If you don't already, we would LOVE if you would signup

for our newsletter HERE

and join us on  Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest and Bloglovin for more inspiration!

See you back tomorrow for even more projects!

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...

Her Butterfly Stencil and Butterfly Duo Stencil.

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!

One StencilGirl Stencil.... Same But Different!

This is how it started.....

I bought this whimsical StencilGirl Doors and Buttons Stencil L178

 designed by Jamie Fingal.

 I was thinking how versatile this stencil is

and how I could probably use it in my Daily every day!

I know that would not end well...

But it got me to thinking about what a great tool it would be....

****If I taught a class in doodling a Daily****

Out came my extra book....

Second version.......

That was Fun! 

I grabbed the wrong book for my third version...

But still awesome!

I like how the little squares became blue bricks.

Fun Fun Fun! 

I HAD to do a Black and White for version number four.

I used a hand carved chair stamp...

which made me think about porches and friends. 

Back to my extra book (now a teaching tool) for version number five...

I used a random date with letter stamps.

It totally reminds me of that Edward Hopper painting Nighthawks.

More Fun! 

The blue bricks from version number three

influenced my red bricks.

A Christmas page, of course....

And one more... 

Next to the Dec 25 page is my last one....

a Happy New Year Version.

Complete with snow flakes

and a dreamy stained glass kind of window.

Three elements on one stencil,

seven times, 

and I only touched the tip of the iceburg!

Which is your favorite?

What Fun!

Visit my Blog

and see the other things I do in my Daily.

Thanks for visiting!

Janet

Only THREE more days!

Hi everyone, it's Maria!
What a wonderful, inspiring week we had for our first "official week" on the StencilGirl Talk Blog! Thank you to everyone that visited. Let me tell you, we are just starting. You will be amazed at what is coming. 

Today I just wanted to remind you that there are only 3, yes THREE, more days to sign up for the July StencilClub EXCLUSIVE stencils by Sue Pelletier. I thought you might like to see what I made with them. Let me tell you these are a must have! Tomorrow I will have a post on my own blog showing you my process in making this journal page.

If you missed our Sneak Peek with a video from Sue you can see it HERE. We close sign-up's on the 10th to get these stencils, so once they are gone...they are GONE! You can find out more about StencilClub and the membership HERE.

Come back tomorrow when we will have a tutorial from Creative Team Member Marjie Kemper!

Have a great Sunday!
Maria