Wanderlust Week 7

Here is  my finished collage for the Wanderlust lesson by Carolyn Dube, "If these walls could talk"  I used collage,stencils and gelatos for my page. I liked Carolyn's video lesson and the gelatos technique was fun.
 #eaclass, #wanderlustclass

A Parcel of Stencils

I have been posting a lot about stencils this week! 

Once I had made my Stencils tag for Tag Tuesday, I got

interested in trying out different ideas with my stencils.

 Then I decided I needed some more stencils to try out new ideas. This morning a parcel arrived from The Craft Barn containing these stencils!

I can't wait to try them out. Watch this space to see what I do with them!

 

Experiments with stencils

Stencils was the theme for Tag Tuesday this week. You can see my tag here in an earlier post. I found that once I started playing around with my wild flowers and butterflies stencil, that I wanted to go on experimenting. I have tried different media and background papers. 

Some old sheet music made an interesting background.

 I used acrylic paint, which was a bit patchy, but it might work better with a  watercolour wash over the top.

I have used tissue paper and watercolour here.

 This is a negative stencil, done on a gelli plate, using metallic acrylic. I don't think this is effective, but might look brighter combined with another colour or with further layers of paper .

Tag Tuesday-Stencils

Our theme at Tag Tuesday this week is Stencils.

We are still enjoying our "Indian Summer" here. It made

me think of using my butterflies and dragonflies stencil.

It was fun experimenting with different media and

 backgrounds. If you want to see the variations I came up 

with, you can see it on my blog here.

The background is made from collaged layers of tissue paper, Japanese newsprint

and serviettes. This was then painted with watercolour. The stencils were

 applied with acrylic paint. I went over the shapes with gel pens and also used 

some oil pastels.