More stencils...

Here are some of the stencils I have made the last week or so since I got my SIlhouette Cameo. If they are the light blue, then I have not used them yet. Otherwise the acrylic paint that I used is on the stencils. Once it dries it doesn't come off onto anything else and it seems to make the stencil a little more sturdy so I don't clean them off too thoroughly.

Many more ideas to make, and much more journaling and other fun uses to put them too... I need another Spring Break to play again!

Having fun making stencils...

It is a really simple process! I am so glad I got this machine because not only can I make a new stencil whenever I think of one, but also my hands do not have to go through the agony of cutting stencil material with an exacto blade. And of course now I can make much more intricate stencils than I could by cutting them myself!

First make a design on the Silhouette software:

Then cut the stencil with the machine. It is a bit noisy!

After it is cut, take it apart and you have the stencil and all the parts from inside to play with as well. What I like about this is that I can resize the same design and make a couple of stencils of various sizes to use.

Next prep the gelli plate. THis time I used some pink and purple cheap craft acrylic paints.

Making a print: The bottom part is weird because I wiggled my arm and it didn't print exactly smoothly but no big deal, I just use it as it turns out!

And later making a print from the inside parts of that same stencil:

It doesn't always have to be printed with the gelli plate. Here is another new stencil that I used spray inks with:

Linked to: Gelli Party (Carolyn Dube)

Another Mandarin Orange Monday...

Not at all sure what these will grow into but the last few days I have been adding blotches of orange, gray, white or black to these and just playing with the colors. For all I know they may get mostly all covered up eventually but for now, they are blotches of orange which pleases me.

And here are some cut up gelli printed labels my friend Leslie and I did on Sunday with my new Silhouette Cameo machine. I need to stop playing long enough to write more of a post about that thing, but it is so much fun I just can't stop using it to blog about it!

This is a gelli printed label page (using some of the new stencils I have been making):

And another art journal background page, this time for my new larger 9"x12" journal:

Here are 4 of the bunch of stamps we cut, actual size around 2" x 1.5", made from a stencil of postage stamp designs I made with my new Silhouette Cameo. Cut out of gelli printed label paper:

Linked to Mandarin Orange Monday and Carolyn Dube's Gelli Print Party