Stencil Girl THE BOOK Blog Hop

This is not the conventional StencilGirl Hop we usually participate in.

All the Hop Artists are using different techniques from different chapters of a book.

I am referring to Mary Beth Shaw's second stencil book titled

Stencil Girl...Mixed-Media techniques for Making and Using Stencils.

I found my inspiration on pages 38-43 in the chapter titled...

Let's Get Dimensional.

I used Sculpey Clay, three stencils and a stamp.

See the Seeds Stencil? The Bullet Holes stencil?

The Broken Circles 6 Stencil?

I cooked my little clay circles as the package directed,

let them cool and started painting them.

I guess I was already envisioning colorful flowers...

because these are definitely the centers of flowers!

Page 41 had the best TIP ever!

Now I am able to do a positive and a negative of the Seeds Stencil!

I collaged some doilies and circles onto a blank homemade canvas for texture.

I spread some paint around to get an idea of where I wanted flowers..

and stamped my Seed Stencil stamp here and there.

And since I was getting dimensional....

I squeezed out some Winsor&Newton Galeria tube acrylics in Permanent Green Light.

My centers are done, I am ready for my focal flowers so I pull out a couple more tubes of paint...

I generously squeeze out 'petals'

 and using the Liquitex Matte Super Heavy Gel on the backs of my centers,

I gently place them where I want them...

Then I step away from the canvas....for a long, long time!

Lady...Did you Hear me? Step Away from the Canvas....

I let it dry in front of the studio fan all day and all night......

I figured it would take a long time to dry.

More details...More depth.

Hmmmm.... Needs a word.....

I love it!

Visit the StencilGirl StencilTalk blog all week to see what else this book offers!

StencilGirl is generously giving away one stencil every day

and a Grand Prize of Mary Beth's Book and a package of stencils at the end of the week.

So leave comments on everything!

This book is chock full of ideas and inspiration.
If you order it from StencilGirl Products you will receive the exclusive bookmark stencil
 that I previously used in the last half of this post HERE.

I can't wait to see what you have come up with too!

This is today's list:
StencilGirl Talk
>>>>Janet Joehlin<<<<
Jennifer Priest
Michael Trent

Happy Arting!