The Stencilfied Journal Prompt 15

Our latest prompt for #thestencilfiedjournal asked us to add an envelope to our pages, and stencil it.

I first made a background for the envelope and used a variety of paints, collage with tissue wrap (by Tim Holtz) as well as removing the paint again through the large stencil from the October 2016 Stencilgirl Club.

I then remembered I had some vintage envelopes and keeping my fingers crossed I hadn't destashed them, went looking for them. They were eventually located in one of my vintage postage stamp albums and I choose the one with the stamp that best matched the background colourwise.

 After glueing the envelope into my 9 x 14cm journal I added stencilling by using stencil L646 Floral Mandala Lace, also by Stencilgirl Products. Using their stencils is one of the conditions of #thestencilfiedjournal project. The project is an initiative by Tina Walker who also produced the beautiful tags with the prompts.

The quotation was done on transparent tape and a Dymo writer. It's by Byron and it says: "Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company".