Every once in a while -- not often, I admit -- I break down and actually wash a stencil ... usually when I've used a 3-dimensional me...

I decided to work my way up to the flower pot ... First I did a test on foil paper.  Foil papers are great for use with stencils, eve...

  Darlene Olivia McElroy is an artist whose name became important to me when I read a book she co-wrote, Surface Treatment Workshop . (...

Artist Lissa Goldsmith commented on an earlier post of mine, and, having read it, I decided to do a post about the subject of altering yo...

Today is the last day of the this week's blog hop at StencilGirlTalk.com !  Two of my stencils are used in today's post on the...

Visit today's edition of StencilGirlTalk to join this week's StencilGirlProducts blog hop and giveaway! In today's hop, th...

Yesterday's post introduced this week's StencilGirlProducts blog hop and giveaway -- and today's post brings me happily back ...

My 6"X6" stencil Pressed Leaves --  -- was used in today's StencilGirl's blog hop by artist Ken Oliver:    ht...

That's the blurb I used on the cover of a greeting card, shown below. Using a pink and blue monoprint as my background, I made a ...

Since today we're having yet another snowfall (4-5 inches predicted), I am determined to THINK SPRING! I started today's ...

This mixed-media collage on canvas isn't quite finished, but I want to show (circled in green) the area where I've used part o...

    I often fall back on old favorite stenciling techniques, including the use of a Sofft Sponge to apply heavy-body acrylic paint thr...