Annie Hamman and TANGLED PODS

The busy hands of artist Annie Hammond have come up with a very creative way to use my 9"x 12" stencil Tangled Pods --

The above image is a close-up detail from a larger artwork by Annie, made with other StencilGirl stencils in addition to mine.  

Tangled Pods itself looks like this:

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Mary Ann Russo's Art Journal and WROUGHT IRON GATE

My friend Mary Ann Russo has chosen a vintage theme for her artwork/journal-in-progress, and to my delight, she's been using a number of my stencils along with Golden's flexible Molding Paste and acrylic paints.  Her art -- done on a heavy-grade, cold-press watercolor paper -- will start appearing here in today's post; I'll be adding more posts later.

The three photos below show a two-page spread that features a set of cut-out windows (both of which frame prints from vintage postcards.) The first two show close-up detail, while the third photo shows the full two pages.   

The 9"x12" stencil that Mary Ann chose to use is Wrought Iron Gate.  The stencil itself looks like this:

Many thanks to you, Mary Ann, for allowing me to post your gorgeous artwork here!  

Lots more to come!   

Frieda Oxenham with CLUSTERED LEAVES and LOOPY LADDERS

United Kingdom artist Frieda Oxenham has created a new art journal that's filled with her stunning stencil-printed papers.  She has used a number of StencilGirlProducts.com stencils, and I'm delighted that among them were two of my 9" x 12" stencils, Clustered Leaves and Loopy Ladders.  

Above:  CLUSTERED LEAVES stencil was used with blue paint to help form an integrated background.

Above:  CLUSTERED LEAVES and LOOPY LADDERS were among the many stencils from StencilGirlProducts.com that artist Frieda Oxenham chose for these pages, which were then sandwiched into Frieda's beautiful new journal.

Clicking on Frieda's name above, you can visit her blog.  My sincere thanks to her for letting me use these images here!

The two stencils featured in this post are:

Above:  CLUSTERED LEAVES (9" x 12")

LOOPY LADDERS (9" x 12")

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Sneak Preview -- New Christmas Card

Mid-January, I'll have the honor of guest-posting for StencilGirlTalk. Here is a Christmas card made with the technique I'll be showing in that post:

In that guest-post, I'll be showing other-occasion greeting cards, as well, along with step-by-step photos and instructions.  It's a technique I learned online, and was won over by its use of foil -- along with it being quick and easy!  Altho I've employed it to make greeting cards, it can be used in art journaling, both as cover decoration and as embellishment on journal pages.

The stencil used to create the embellishment on the upper left is my 6" x 6" Kaleid.  The stencil in its entirety looks like this:

Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates this special day!