Hello everyone!

Robyn here sharing an art journal page featuring layering stencilled areas using two differently sized stencils of the same design.

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The Crafter’s Workshop provided me with some product to create this project. The opinions I share are solely my own.

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I enjoy the creative outcomes that happen when you try layering together stencils of the same pattern in different sizes. The outcome can be a bit unpredictable in terms of aesthetics, but if you combine relatively simple designs the results can be awesome. For this project, I used large and small size of the TCW876 Screen View stencil.

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I started my page with a roughly painted layer of light green acrylic paint. Using each of the sizes of TCW876 Screen View stencil I stencilled randomly over the page with a mix of blue and white acrylic paint. I allowed the colours to blend a little on my stencilling sponge so there was a graduation of colour over the page. 

Once the page was dry, I gradually painted around the edges with a dark colour such as Dina Wakley’s Night. As I painted each area, I placed the small sized TCW876 Screen View stencil over the freshly painted area and removed areas of the paint away with a baby wipe. This gives a bit of a tone on tone effect of lifting colour from some areas so you can see the pattern beneath. I tried to do the page in sections so that the painted area didn’t have time to dry before I lifted it off through the stencil.

I stamped some Paper Artsy flower images onto watercolour cardstock using black permanent ink and then coloured them using watercolours in vibrant colours. Once I had fussy cut the flower heads I laid them over my page into a pleasing design. My plan was to have the stems growing up from the right-hand side of the page in a messy, layered fashion so I drew some lines with a pencil to act as a guide for my penwork. 

Then I inked in my lines using the Sakura Pigma Micron black pen and glued the flower heads were then into place.

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I decided the lower left-hand side of the page needed a little extra colour so I painted a small area with the blue paint, placed the small TCW876 Screen View and then removed a portion of the colour using the baby wipe in the same way was as above.

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The page was finished with some loose doodled stems and lines to give the appearance of a messy style garden patch. Some white doodled lines were also added to the flower heads using a Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen.

Supplies:

• TCW876 Screen View
• Sakura Pigma Micron black pen
• Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen
• Dina Wakley art journal
• Acrylic paint
• Paper Artsy JOFY stamp set #33
• Black permanent stamping ink
• Watercolours 

Thanks so much for joining me today, I hope you have enjoyed seeing how my page came together. Don’t forget to tag me on social media if you do!   

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Robyn Wood
The Crafter’s Workshop Design Team Member