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Today I’m excited to be a part of Julie Fei-Fan Balzer’s stencil blog hop!!! I am a HUGE fan of both Julie and the Crafter’s Workshop stencils, and I have been working with them in so much of my crafting – LOVE! Her stencils with the Crafter’s Workshop (see them all here) are SO FAB! I’m going to be playing with the ‘trust your heart’ 6″ stencil today.
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This stencil would be awesome on a canvas, used as template to cut out the words, with mist, paint, with multi-medium to create a resist… oh my. I have SO MANY ideas for it! Today, I’ll be sharing a layout.
First I used the herringbone stencil + heirloom blue mister huey to create my background on kraft cardstock. Then I placed my papers + photo and figured out where I wanted the title (aka my stencil). After that I used molding paste + plastic knife over my stencil because I just LOVE the raised look!
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I also used the punchinella template + Ranger perfect pearl mist in pink gumball to add a subtle layer of sparkle + color. Oh but my words needed some pop! So I grabbed my smooch ink and went along the letters…
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You can also see I used distress stickles (spun sugar) in the heart. The papers + stickers + brads I used for this page are from the Amy Tangerine for American Crafts line.
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Seriously just *love* this stencil. LOVE! The other one (if you believe you can you will) is equally awesome. I just love how depending on how you use these, layer them, what mediums you use the results can vary so widely!! I’ve been known to just use the word heart + heart of this one.
I hope you liked my project – and be sure to check out the other ladies that are participating today to see more ideas + projects!!
Kelly Purkey: http://kellypurkey.typepad.com/
Amy Tan: http://amytangerine.blogspot.com/
Mou Saha: http://collagecollagecollage.blogspot.com/
Roben-Marie Smith: http://www.robenmarie.com/
Julie Fei-Fan Balzer: http://balzerdesigns.typepad.com/balzer_designs/2011/07/tcw216-if-you-believe.html
Thanks to Julie for asking me to participate – you’ll be seeing MORE with these stencils + me for sure!! 🙂 LOVE THEM! Just FYI, you should totally make sure your LSS carries these, or if you don’t have a local store, there are great on-line options. I’ve found a great selection of the 6″ stencils at simonsaysstamp.com, and both 6″ and 12″ stencils at scrapbook.com
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note: A while back I made a video for www.scrapbookupdate.com about using these templates + why I love Crafter’s Workshop templates. here’s that video in case you want to see them in action:
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another semi-related side note: Julie was one of the AMAZING contributors in my book that just came out (Scrapbook Workshop) – in fact in the ‘see inside’ free preview up on amazon you can see some of the crafter’s workshop templates in play (star and damask – in projects by me some of the last projects shown in preview).