Stencils and Infusions Tutorial

Hi friends!! I hope you had a lovely weekend! Here, Thursday was a public holiday and the kids didn't have school on Friday, so we had a nice long weekend. My parents visited and we did three really great outings. The sun is shining and it is summer weather at the moment. 

This week at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog we have a Stencil It challenge. I love stencils, not only are they very versatile, but they also take very little space. Don't miss the gorgeous project by our May guest designer Alison Bomber.

I made another art journaling page in my Dina Wakley Media Journal this week, working on one of the cotton-rag watercolor pages. I wanted to play around with stencils together with Paper Artsy's Infusions. I used stencils by StencilGirl and the focal stencil is Finding Your Tribe by Carolyn Dube. This page was such fun to make and came together quite quickly. You can easily use the same techniques on a card or a scrapbooking layout.

I wanted to work quickly before everything dried, which is why there is only one step photo for the first couple of steps. Place the Finding Your Tribe stencil on the background and mask off the designs close to the three women with masking tape or paper. Mist with water. Sprinkle A Bit Jaded Infusions on top. You only need a little. Carefully add a little more water to blend. Remove the stencil. I wanted less of a perfect edge to the women silhouettes and misted a tiny bit of water here and there to make the edges run slightly. 

Repeat with the Clouds stencil by Kathy Nichols, to form something meant to look a little like clouds. Mist some more water here and there, and at the lower part of the page and sprinkle Golden Sands and Olive Tree on top. 

When dry, use the Finding Your Tribes stencil again to add words to the page. I used the Night acrylic paint by Dina Wakley, which is not quite black, but more a really dark shade of purple.

I also sponged some Night paint through the Mini Starlight Stencil by Lesley Riley.

I die cut circles with the SSS Circle Loops die, from Glimmery Sunshine paper. Finally, I also added some rub-ons here and there.

 

I really like this joyful stencil by Carolyn Dube, and especially the different women silhouettes on the stencil. If you want to see another example, have a look at my Old Nonsense art journal page.

True friends make everything more fun, and some star rub-ons.

The glimmery paper adds a nice touch to the page. You can also buy the SSS Glimmery Cardstock in a sample pack.

Using stencils together with Infusions is lots of fun and very easy. If you want words or fine details to be clearly visible, it is better to add those with acrylic paint instead of Infusions.

I hope you will join us this week in our Stencil It challenge. As always, you have a chance to win a $50 gift voucher to do some fun shopping at Simon Says Stamp. You have until next Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

Don't forget to follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram, they post great stuff daily. 

Do you use Instagram? If so please add #sssmchallenge so we can see your entries there too.

Thank you for taking the time to stop by my blog today!  

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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