Stencilgirl® October 2018 Project

I’m still making more art cards for the #365somethings2018 undertaking. The idea is to make something creative every day of this 2018 year. I have chosen to make 3 x 3” art cards and I’m having so much fun with them. It is very surprising to discover just how many ways there are to art on such a small surface. Here is another set of 9 cards and the good thing is there is a full step-by-step tutorial for these on the Stencilgirl® Talk website as there has been before. I even refer back to my own tutorials when I’m making cards! The cards themselves are going to be uploaded to my Instagram account in the near future, so you can see them there in detail.

Here are some tasters:

Art Cards 134 - 142

Nine days seem to have past (where have they gone?!) and here is the next set of 9 art cards to keep them company. Remember these cards are part of my #365somethings2018 project on Instagram where I hope to end up with 365 cards, one for each day of 2018. If you want to see them appear individually each day you can find them all on my Instagram feed.

You will have seen some of these cards before as they were part of the set of 9 that I made as my May Project for Stencilgirl® Products in my capacity as monthly Guest Designer. You can therefore find a step-by-step tutorial for these on the Stencilgirl®Talk webpage. I am feeding all these cards gradually into my stream of numbered cards for each day of 2018.

In fact I tend to make them in sets as far as the backgrounds are concerned and then add details as and when I have time, trying to keep ahead of the day I need to upload them. It's fun!.

It is Round

The letter R was our prompt for Joggles Art Journal Adventures this week. I found a quotation by Dada Bhagwan that reads: "This world has been changing from times immemorial. But because it is round one cannot find an end to it". It inspired me to work with as many circle stencils (from different sources) as I could find and many layers of colours, finishing off with black and white. I used quite a few of my Lindy's Magicals too. It started to look like the universe.

I then went to my stack of gelli plate printed pages and punched more circles from them. They were glued onto the pages as shown to represent planets and the sun.

I hand wrote the quotation using a white marker but it didn't show up too well on the page so I also added it in black on the big circles. There is a lovely bit of gold sparkle on the pages (in an A5 journal) but sadly this is very hard to spot on the pictures.

Two Kinds of Light

The prompt on Joggles Art Journal Adventures this week was to use the letter G. I found a great quote that covered it, from James Thurber. It reads: "There are two kinds of light. The Glow that illuminates, and the Glare that obscures. 

I wanted to keep it simple and used just one stencil: L270 Cornish Petals Large by Stencilgirl Products and combined it with light molding paste mixed with Lindy's Magicals. The colours I used were: Peony Scarlet Red, Batchelor Button Blue and Bells of Ireland Green.

I then also used some of Lindy's gold sprays for the centre and messed around with some luminescent neon paint.

As you can see on the picture above it all resulted in a very textural spread that illustrated the quote very well. After outlining in black I called it done.