Last Day of This Year's Only Sale on Stencils

 Today's your last chance!

Have you had your eyes on a stencil or two or more ...?  

Created with 9" x 12" Branching Blossoms Silhouette L284 

Today you can fill your cart at StencilGirlProducts.com and take advantage of the only sale this year!  Have fun shopping here! 

Sunday, November 27 until 11:59 p.m. CST on Tuesday, November 29, 2021, is your chance to get 25% off StencilGirl’s stencils!

The discount is automatically taken at checkout!
There is no discount code to enter.

If you buy 6 stencils of the same size StencilGirl’s 10% everyday discount is automatically applied to those stencils. This discount is taken before your 25% off.

There are FREEBIES to be had!

• $100+ Exclusive 7-Pattern Stencil by Mary Beth Shaw will be automatically included in your order.
• $500+ a piece of original art by Mary Beth Shaw and the Exclusive Stencil!

 

Please note: Freebies are calculated after the discounts are applied. International shipping does not count toward freebies.

Have fun shopping here!  

Day 2 of This Year's Only Sale

 Want to treat yourself or someone else with brand-new stencils?

L791 Palm Fronds Silhouette Large (9" x 12") was used in making the prints for this collage. (Note: This design also comes in sizes 6" x 6" and 4" x 4".)

Today you can fill your cart at StencilGirlProducts.com and take advantage of the only sale this year!  Have fun shopping here! 

Sunday, November 27 until 11:59 p.m. CST on Tuesday, November 29, 2021, is your chance to get 25% off StencilGirl’s stencils!

The discount is automatically taken at checkout!
There is no discount code to enter.

If you buy 6 stencils of the same size StencilGirl’s 10% everyday discount is automatically applied to those stencils. This discount is taken before your 25% off.

There are FREEBIES to be had!

• $100+ Exclusive 7-Pattern Stencil by Mary Beth Shaw will be automatically included in your order.
• $500+ a piece of original art by Mary Beth Shaw and the Exclusive Stencil!

 

Please note: Freebies are calculated after the discounts are applied. International shipping does not count toward freebies.

Have fun shopping here!  

StencilGirl's Only Sale of the Year Starts Today!

 Ready, set, go...

Want to add something fresh and new to your stencil collection?  Or start a collection? Stencils = a quick, fun and easy way to make art!

Above: created with 9" x 12" Fire Cherries L879 

Today you can fill your cart at StencilGirlProducts.com and take advantage of the only sale this year!  Have fun shopping here! 

Sunday, November 27 until 11:59 p.m. CST on Tuesday, November 29, 2021, is your chance to get 25% off StencilGirl’s stencils!

The discount is automatically taken at checkout!
There is no discount code to enter.

If you buy 6 stencils of the same size StencilGirl’s 10% everyday discount is automatically applied to those stencils. This discount is taken before your 25% off.

There are FREEBIES to be had!

• $100+ Exclusive 7-Pattern Stencil by Mary Beth Shaw will be automatically included in your order.
• $500+ a piece of original art by Mary Beth Shaw and the Exclusive Stencil!

 

Please note: Freebies are calculated after the discounts are applied. International shipping does not count toward freebies.

Have fun shopping here!  

Starts Tomorrow: My Stencils and Masks -- Sale of the Year !

  Attention!

StencilGirlProducts’ only sale of this year starts tomorrow! 

That's right! My StencilGirl stencils and masks are going on sale!

Get ready to load your cart here !

Above:  Created with 9" x 12" Longwood Florals Mask L657

9" x 12" Longwood Florals Mask L657

This design also comes in a stencil version:

9" x 12" Longwood Florals Stencil L676

This special sale will run November 27 (tomorrow!) - 29.  It's not time yet to place your order, but you can start browsing here !

Get ready to fill up your cart here !

Christmas Cards/Gift-tags/Hanging Ornaments

 

Although today's post limits itself to the making of Christmas cards, the same approach works beautifully for crafting your own personal and unique gift-tags and hanging ornaments.

Above:  One of my favorite stencils for making Christmas cards is my 6" x 6" Quilted Flower Garden s237.  Its repeating pattern reminds me of poinsettia blooms...

Another reason I like it is that its built-in lines mean I can easily cut the prints into strips.....

Above:  a minimalist Christmas card, with a column three poinsettia blooms centered on the face.

Above:  One of many cards I've made with the theme of Christmas candles

Fold-over-style greeting card blanks made from sturdy cardstock are available here as well as from other vendors. I strongly recommend buying card blanks cut from sturdy heavyweight cardstock.  They cost more but they can stand up to any kind of decorations you create.

3D Christmas stickers similar to those shown in this post are available in a wide variety of colors and designs.  One example is shown here.

Merry Christmas! -- and thanks for stopping by here today!

To scroll thru the pages of my stencils and masks at  StencilGirlProducts.com, please start here.

 Attention!

StencilGirlProducts’ only sale of this year starts November 27th. 

That's right! My StencilGirl stencils and masks are going on sale!

Get ready to load your cart here !

Above:  A mixed-media collage starring Clustered Leaves L433 (9" x 12") and Loopy Ladders L434 9" x 12").

Clustered Leaves L433 (9" x 12")

Loopy Ladders L434 9" x 12")

The sale will run November 27 - 29.  It's not time yet to place your order, but you can start browsing here !

Get ready to fill up your cart here !

Christmas Stocking Stuffers, Mica Tiles and More!

Before we get started, a few words about supplies:

Fold-over-style greeting card blanks made from sturdy cardstock are available here as well as from other vendors. I highly recommend buying card blanks cut from sturdy heavyweight cardstock.  They cost more but they can stand up to any kind of decorations you create.

Spiral-bound blank journals, similar to those shown in today's post, are available here and probably elsewhere.   

3D Christmas stickers similar to those shown in this post are available in a wide variety of colors and designs.  One example is shown here.

Glitter glue, likewise, is easy to find; one example is here.

 

To make the card above, I printed a mica tile with silver metallic acrylic heavy-body paint and my 9" x 12" Clustered Leaves L433.  Once that dried, I used red ink (Sharpie pen) to highlight the lines that had been created by the stencil.     

Making a quick detour from Christmas cards to Christmas stocking-stuffer gifts, I used another 3D Christmas sticker as my final touch on the cover of the pocket-sized journal below.  The front of this journal had already been printed with a portion of my 6" x 6" stencil Ornamental Iron Curls s462.  I had masked off the edges of the journal cover with masking tape so that only the central area received the print.

Once again, Ornamental Iron Curls s462 teamed up with green acrylic paint, as I veered back to Christmas card-making.....

Pillar candles are among my fun, favorite and fast ways to create a series of Christmas cards.  (The same goes for birthday cards, any time of the year!)

I cut my candle flames from orange paper scraps and finish them off with glitter glue.

Merry Christmas! -- and thanks for stopping by here today!

To scroll thru the pages of my stencils and masks at  StencilGirlProducts.com, please start here.

Get Ready for Cyber Monday Sale at StencilGirlProducts.com!

StencilGirlProducts’ only sale of this year starts November 27th. 

That's right! My StencilGirl stencils and masks are going on sale!

Get ready to fill up your cart here !

Above:  A simple collage created with novelty papers for a frame; the framed image was printed with metallic gold heavy-body acrylic paint on glossy black cardstock, using Looking Up Through Trees Small s793.

6" x 6" 

 Looking Up Through Trees Small s793.

This design comes in two sizes; here's the other:

9" x 12" Looking Up Through Trees Large L793

The sale will run November 27 - 29.  It's not time yet to place your order, but you can start browsing here !

Get ready to fill up your cart here !

3D Art for Christmas Mini-Gifts -- Made with Stencils

Please check out the write-up here!  I used this technique to decorate the covers of two small-sized journals that will be Christmas gifts.

Want a sneak-peek before going to that write-up?

Yes, be sure to click here for step-by-step photos and directions in using stencils to make journal covers.  

To scroll through the pages of my stencils and masks at StencilGirlProducts.com, please start here.

Thanks for visiting my blog today!

Ready to have fun?

Today's post includes both Christmas giftbags and Christmas cards.  And I had fun making them!

First up:  For background I chose a Christmas-themed page from an out-of-date hymnal; after cutting it out with decorative Fiskars, I watercolored it green.

Atop that, I added stencil-printed paper cut into shapes that, once assembled, form a Christmas tree. 

 

Below:  a close-up of the collage .....

Stencils that I used in printing the paper for forming the tree:

6" x 6" Sprigs s523

and

6" x 6" Trivet A s166

For the following two Christmas cards, I cut my Christmas tree and candle shapes from prints made with the same two stencils shown above.

Close-ups:

At one time I bought my cardstock blanks from JAMPaper.com; most of those had a built-in metallic sheen, like the green card above.  (Now I have to search farther afield to find foldover cardstock blanks for my greeting card projects.)  

The silver crown comes from a collection of similar decorations given to me a long time ago by a dear friend who has since passed away.

Swinging back to giftbags:  I made the candle below by cutting paper printed with my 6" x 6" stencil Mimosa 6 s126--

Mimosa 6 s126

I buy my blank giftbags here.

Today's giftbags are lined with plain white tissue paper, but to have more fun, I suggest printing your tissue paper using stencils -- but be careful to sparingly use heavy-body acrylic paint (plain or "metallic.")  Giftwrap tissue is flimsy, so make your prints as gently as you can!   (If you end up with a few torn scraps, save them for your future collage projects!)    

Thanks for visiting my blog today!  To scroll thru the pages of my stencils and masks at StencilGirlProducts.com, please start here.

Stencil Prints for Christmas Cards

Below:  Looking Up Through Tree Large L753, a 9" x 12" mask, is what I used with red acrylic paint to make this print on plain white paper.  After the paint dried, I went over the print with a black marker to create random squiggles.

  

These dominant colors of red and white put me in a Christmas mood -- so I decided to cut the print into pieces and use parts in collage-cover greeting cards.  Candles are often my Christmas decoration of choice.  (My greeting card blanks come from JAMPaper.com.  The green textured backgrounds [shown below] were cut from novelty papers that I bought years ago at an art supply store.) The candles' flames were cut from another stencil-printed paper (yellow paper stencil-printed with red acrylic paint.)

Next in today's post:  a collage I created for a past online workshop with Jane Davies.  I pulled these collage elements from a stack of papers I'd previously prepared using a couple of my stencils and masks available at StencilGirlProducts.com.  

Above:  In the mid-center-right area, I collaged a piece of deli wrap that I'd imprinted with red acrylic paint using my 6"X 6" stencil Kaleid s085.

In the close-up above (top-center), you can see a piece of paper printed with my 9"X 12" stencil Twinship L268.  Here, I used red acrylic paint on a substrate of black-and-white dot-decorated scrapbook paper.

After finishing this collage, I took a step backward to study my results.  The finished piece wasn't satisfying me!  So I decided to cut out a section and glue it to the face of a 5"X 7" blank greeting card (Strathmore brand). 

Featured in today's post are three masks, all available at StencilGirlProducts.com .  (Note:  Looking Up Through Tree Large L753 is a 9" x 12" version of a design that also comes in a 6" x 6" size:  Looking up Through Trees Small s793.)

6"X 6" Kaleid s085

9"X 12" Twinship L268

9" x 12" Looking Up Through Tree Large L753

Thanks for visiting my blog today!

To scroll thru the pages of my stencils and masks at StencilGirlProducts.com, please start here.