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| Quilt Block by Barbara Alama from Honolulu, HI We have a winner!!! I used random.org to choose a winner for this posting. The winner is #8 of 8 Janine and her comment was: "very elegant". So, Janine, you can email me your snail mail address to: lynell@dreamweaverstencils.com and I will send your your blog winnings. We are continuing our blog hop with our friends from the UK. This year Woodware Craft Collection, Dreamweaver's exclusive UK distributor, has begun a blog and design team. Don't hesitate to visit their blog to ask questions and get information by communicating with their talented designers. They are great sources for technique and can even give guidance on where they may be teaching or where you can find Dreamweaver Stencils or Woodware's other great products. In just a few days I will be flying to Honolulu, Hawaii to do a consumer show at the Neal Blaisdell Center. Joining me will be long time friend, quilter and Hawaii resident Barbara Alama. She stenciled this beautiful quilt block with an oil based paint and for a finishing touch she glued a myriad of gold, pearl and silver beads for some added bling. Barbara teaches quilting at one of the local stores in Honolulu and her students also enjoy stenciling as well. To achieve the intensity and shading that you see here she started by placing the kimono stencil (LG634) in the center of a piece of muslin and taped out the edges to keep the fabric clean. To keep the fabric from moving and shifting as she stenciled, she placed a piece of fine grit sandpaper underneath the fabric. There are several fabric inks and paints out there that can be used, but Barbara often stencils with oil based Paintstiks. People often see the large crayon looking Painstiks and think that you use them directly on the stencil. But after peeling back the dry paint skin you actually stroke the creamy paint onto a palette and next pick up this color with a stencil brush to apply it to the stencil. The base color she chose for this kimono was Prussian Blue (a well known pigment that is favored by many artists in their palettes). Using a 3/4"stencil brush she started at the outer edge and repeatedly layered the color on the kimono stencil. Remember that if you are stenciling a wall hanging and it isn't going to be laundered it is OK to stencil with any pigment based ink that you would use on your paper creations. Next she layered the cherry blossoms stencil (LG644) on top of the kimono stencil. Leaving the kimono stencil in place keeps the area beyond the kimono design clean. This time she didn't shade from light to dark, she just stenciled the blossoms quite heavily with an Alizarin Crimson Paintstik (another favorite artists' pigment) and then used a brown color for the stems. Whether you are creating on a box, a frame, a piece of furniture or working on a piece of fabric like Barbara's creation you can use stencils in a hundred different ways. So enjoy and when before this HOP is over be sure to sign up as a follower to keep up with the latest stenciling trends. For the next "HOP" on this magnificent blogging tour, visit the blog of Pam Hornschu:http//1pamperedstamper.blogspot.com Remember to leave comments on every blog. This will give you more of a chance to win goodies in the form of Dreamweaver Stencils. |
Thursday, September 1, 2011
HOP ACROSS THE POND AND BACK/DAY FIVE
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
HOP ACROSS THE POND AND BACK.../Day Three of TALLY HOP!!!
We have a winner for this posting who has been chosen using random.org. She was winner #12 of 13.
It is Marijane who made the following comment: I am thrilled to be getting ideas beyond card-making! All the home-dec art I saw today is really inspiring and with Christmas still a way off, there's time to make some of these darling projects as gifts. You will be remembered long after the Christmas cards are put away! The featured stencil is also one of my favorites.
Please email your snail mail address to lynell@dreamweaverstencils.com and I will send your blog winnings.
Our fearless leader, Deborah March, has inspired me with a project she did a few weeks ago! So I CASEd it! Her project was a frame as well and she too, used the Corner Swirls stencil (LJ896). I loved it, but I diverged a bit and used the Matte Black Embossing Paste (DMBP) instead of the white that she chose. I found this frame already painted at a discount store and I couldn't resist the shabby chic finish that was already on the frame. I printed out a photo of my daughter onto just regular copy paper...this gave the picture a grainy appearance. It was only black and white, so to give it a vintage feel I sprayed it with the Memories Mists colors- Pale Ale and Orange Juice. I know there are a lot of mists or sprays out there, but frankly I love these. They dry quickly and they are very saturated in pigment. This sepia toned look was just what I wanted.
Take time to visit the other designers on the hop and don't forget to leave a message or comment...very easy to do. This will give you an opportunity to win some blog candy. In this case it comes in the form of the Dreamweaver Stencils. If you are just starting out here you can even go back to the beginning of the hop and leave comments. Just go to the portion of my blog where the schedule is listed and hop to the blogs that started on Monday. This will increase your opportunity to win a stencil. Your next stop will be to visit Pam Hornschu at: http://1pamperedstamper.blogspot.com
Sunday, August 28, 2011
A HOP ACROSS THE POND AND BACK: TALLY HOP!!
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| Glass fusion by Shirley Parlin owner of www.stencilwithstyle.com |
Here are the design teams sites and September 4th they will start to choose the winners, so check back here the 4th and 5th to see if you have won, you can click on your name to take you to the site you have won on and there will be an email address there for you to send us your snail mail addy to, then we can send you your blog winnings:
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Thursday, August 25, 2011
Thursday's Dream Schemes/The Last Hurrah!!! +BLOG CANDY in our Future!
Today is a free challenge day and since summer is starting to wind down I decided to end with a card I CASEd from my good friend Elaine Benedict. She had done this card with the cherries on regular cardstock and I needed an idea for something to use in a class using the embossing paste on acetate. So mine looks pretty much like hers with that small exception. I first paste embossed the cherry stencil (LM130) on clear acetate with the regular embossing paste (DEP) and set it aside to dry. Next I stenciled the vertical stripes in the background using the plaid stencil (LX7002) and a cheerful green ink. Then turned the same stencil ninety degrees and paste embossed the stripes using the new large paste spreader (LM2010). I actually took Elaine's advice and mixed my own metallic yellow paste by mixing a tablespoon of Matte Yellow Embossing Paste (DMYP) into three tablespoons of Pearlescent Embossing Paste (DPP). While this plaid background was drying I took the now dry cherry design and realigned the stencil to add color by stenciling it with brightly colored pigment inks. Remember to start with your lightest color and shade your darker colors on top. I die cut a frame to finish off the raw edges of the acetate and added a bow and bright green embellishment pin (TIPM) for a finishing touch!
Hey by the way...that bow is from Creative Impressions in Colorado. They sell such pretty things for embellishments. Just love them and their products.
I recently visited my folks in Eastern Oregon and the cherries and peaches are in their final stages of being harvested. But this pretty card will live on through the Fall and Winter to remind us that Spring and Summer will be here again. Let's enjoy the warmth while we can!
We would LOVE it if you played along this week...especially since we hope to have lots of activity next week with the blog...you could share your creations with so many more. So sign up with Mr. Linky below and show show show!!!!
Thursday, August 18, 2011
GET "KRAFTY" WITH A NEW COLORWAY!
Hi. Pam here this week as Lynell is visiting family. So, I had the fun of creating two things with Wendy's suggested colorway of kraft, red, and ivory. I love this color combo, especially since I'm kind of on a kraft kick right now. For this card I used the newly released "Holiday Greetings" stencil. The ivory panel was run through my embossing machine with the stencil (remember to spritz the back of the panel with rubbing alcohol for a deeper emboss). Then I replaced the stencil over the embossed areas and rouged gold ink from the Splendor Antique pad over the leaves. Now, see all the tiny red berries? Since I did NOT want to mask off every leaf with tape, I used the uber-perfect Picasso tool to rouge red just in the areas that I wanted. This tool looks odd, but has several areas that are perfect to focus on one area while masking off the others. I highly recommend it! I heat set the ink slightly before applying tiny drops of Copic White ink with the tip of a small stylus tool on the berries and snowy lines on the sentiment. Since my red ended up slightly brick colored, I chose this ribbon with more of a red-brown cast. Actually, this card ends up being quite simple to do, and is easily do-able in multiples for the holidays. Don't you want to know what the Dream Team has come up with for this colorway challenge? I know I do! The list is at right. When you are finished being inspired by them, be sure to link your own creation at the bottom of this post. We'd love to show off YOUR designs as well! Thursday, August 11, 2011
Thursday's Dream Schemes/Free Challenge Today!
This Japanese Maple, four seasons card, is done by Dream Team member, Pam Hornschu. The Japanese Maple stencil (LJ906) was paste-embossed with the regular matte "Dreamweaver Embossing Paste"(DEP) onto an ivory cardstock. Then once it was dry she cut the card into four equal pieces 1 1/4" x 4 1/2" long. She then stenciled one of the leaves a red/orange Fall color with inks and totally cut out one of the leaves, then mounted it with foam tape. The Summer green was stenciled with a more intense green and the Spring motif was stenciled with a...well...Spring green. To add the shading she used markers and stroked in colors to add a shaded effect. At the bottom of each panel she used a wavy EK edger punch. Then she mounted them all onto a dark brown cardstock. She achieved Winter by not doing any leaves from the branch....as usual a beautiful clever creation Pam!
Follow the sidebar at the right to see what the rest of the design team has posted this week. And if you feel like playing along just add your name to Mr. Linky to link to your blog!
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Thursday's Dream Schemes/Gearing up for Change
To give this card a sharp edginess I cut a two and half inch round out of pewter. I am finding that I love to work with the pewter metal ...it is very soft and malleable. I ran the gear stencil (LJ911) through my die cutting machine with a thin rubber mat and two acrylic plates on top of that. Once through I left the stencil in place and used a paper stump to further emboss the back of the metal by rubbing the stump across the metal and pushing it into the stencil. This serves a dual purpose...not only does it push the metal out to round it a bit more but it also helps to release the metal from the stencil. I then removed the metal and tapped the entire embossed side with a Staz-on ink pad by Tsukineko. I let this ink dry for just a few seconds then took a soft rag made of an old t-shirt and gently rubbed off the excess black ink. I repeated the process on a small piece of metal which I had cut one inch square for the lower right gear.
The background was stenciled in pigment ink colors on a piece of chipboard. The chipboard gives this steampunk creation a recycled appearance. The stencils used were the stripe stencil (LX7002), the houndstooth (LJ913), the small cathedral window (LJ909), and the optical art (LJ915). The gears were mounted with small pieces of foam mounting tape and then all was backed on a piece of glossy black cardstock.
I have alluded to change, so stay tuned for a different schedule in our blogging. Occasionally the team will all be designing with the exact same stencil and since one of the reasons we love to craft and blog is because we are technique junkies, so we will all be presenting the same technique at the same time. We will also be putting out a challenge for those of you who may want to join the design team. Keep tuned to our blogs and gear up for a wonderful Fall season of crafting with Dreamweaver Stencils. Hope you have fun creating this week. If you are interested in seeing what the team has done follow the sidebar at the right to visit their sites. If you decide to follow the challenge just use Mr. Linky below and we will enjoy having you play along. You can also email me a creation and I will post it here for you. My email is: lynell@dreamweaverstencils.com
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