Why So Many --

-- greeting card covers?

Because a small local -- yet very lively -- museum, Monmouth Museum --

 http://monmouthmuseum.org/

-- is now carrying my STENCILGIRL(TM) stencils.   I'm making greeting cards to sell in their gift-shop, alongside the stencils, as a way of showing gift-shop browsers just a fraction of the ways in which stencils can be used in art-making.  Before wrapping these cards and sending them on their merry way, I'm scanning them so I can trot them out, here ...

 The above greeting card cover is a collage starring a cut-out from a Gelli Plate print that used my 6"X6" Seaweed stencil on a substrate of Asian  newsprint previously dry-brushed with acrylics.  This stencil is available here:  http://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/product-p/s099.htm

"Seaweed" Rides Again ... With a Sidekick from "Borders #1"

Still more greeting card covers --  the first one, made with my 6"X6" Seaweed stencil --

http://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/product-p/s099.htm

I made the above collaged greeting card with an irregular cut-out of stripe-patterned handmade paper purchased long ago; for this card, I switched to using the "back" of this novelty paper.  My Seaweed stencil was used with orange acrylic paint on a Gelli Plate, with a substrate of newsprint previously dry- rushed with pale aqua acrylic paint.

The above collaged greeting card takes us back to my 9"X12" Swatton Borders #1 Stencil, which I used with aqua acrylic paint on a brayer-applied orange background.  This was glued (Tombow Glue Stick) to a frame-background of that same striped paper, this time with the striped side facing outward.

This stencil, which contains 3 individual borders, is available at STENCILGIRLPRODUCTS(TM) -- http://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/product-p/l220.htm

Another Happy Surprise

I had another happy surprise today when I opened the Stencil Girl Talk e-newsletter in my Inbox --

http://www.marycnasser.com/2/post/2013/07/new-work-wednesday-nature.html

Clicking the above link, you can see that artist Mary C. Nasser came up with a very creative way to use my 6"X6" stencil Seaweed, available at StencilGirlProducts ...

http://stencilgirlproducts.com/stencils-6x6/view/716

I speak with total sincerity -- not modesty -- when I say that every time I see one of my StencilGirlProducts stencils used, I'm surprised:  the reason being that, when I look thru the large selection of stencils available on that website, I see work by other designers that has me completely in awe.  I never knew stencils could be so exciting!  Every abstract artist (and many representational artists) should own the whole collection!  I often find in my own work, as I move thru the process, that I suddenly wish I had bought such-and-such stencil as part of my most recent order.  Bottom line:  if I don't have it on hand, I can't use it -- so I need to grab every design that catches my eye, even if I have no immediate idea as to where I will eventually see a need for using it.  And I need to check the SGP website often, because new stencils continually pop up there. 

Now Released at www.StencilGirlProducts.com

-- 3 more stencils I've designed:  Mimosa (9"X12"), Vases (9"X12") and Seaweed (6"X6") ...

http://stencilgirlproducts.com/new-stencils/view/712

http://stencilgirlproducts.com/new-stencils/view/713

 

http://stencilgirlproducts.com/new-stencils/view/715