Showing posts with label paper crafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paper crafts. Show all posts

Monday, November 5, 2012

Playing around with stencils

My original idea was to paint a canvas with lots of different colors, then cut out paper dolls and attach them to the canvas, then paint white over it.

So I flipped thru several fashion magazines and carefully cut out the models.  Then I glued the magazine models to cardstock and cut out the dolls again.  I was pretty happy with the way that the canvas turned out.  I used spray paint and acrylic paints.  Then I made a mistake.  I started stamping various designs over the paint with archival ink - bad choice.  It seems to repel paint.  So when I spray painted the canvas white, you can see little black flowers peeking thru here and there.  As you can see, the paint got under the stencil so I didn't get the sharp lines that I had envisioned.  Even though I'm putting a photo of it up now, I'm going to do a lot more work on it.  This will just be my bottom layer.

However, I did discover that any time you cut out a paper doll, you also have a reverse stencil, so I played around with some of my citra solv papers and convolution papers that I have made and this is what I came up with.

I think these are kind of cute. Maybe I will make some small ones that I could put on greeting cards.  Sure - I'll get right on that.  See you later.

Sunday, May 20, 2012

My first handmade card

Several months ago I decided that I was going to start making my own cards.  So, of course, I went to Michaels to buy lots of cute cardstock, stickers, punches, ribbon, washi tape, and tons more.

Then my sister's birthday came and went after I had purchased the cutest little "Sisters" ephemera.  Next, my father's Birthday came and went after I had purchased tiny little hammers and saws and "Father" ephemera.  I just couldn't let Mother's Day AND my mother's Birthday (her birthday's the 14th) slip by.  After purchasing some more flowers, stamps, inkpads and paper, I actually made a card.  I'm not kidding - I finished this card at 11:30 PM Saturday night.   We had to be at my parent's house by 10:30 Sunday morning so I was very pleased that I had gotten it finished so early!

Here's a link to a cute Father's Day card project!  I have about a month to start working on my father's card.     Go ahead - take a wild guess as to when I'll get started!