Using Stencils on Layouts

Once again I am blown away with how the Creative Team at Get It Scrapped takes a single idea and comes up with so many different ideas and techniques.  Today an article featuring using stencils on layouts posted.  Each Creative Team member used 3 different stencils OR 3 different layers of the same stencil in order to create a background for their layout.  The art work is beautiful!  Here is the layout I contributed;

Grandma I Remember You by Michelle Houghton | Supplies: cardstock; Kraft, stencils; antique doily, The Crafter’s Workshop and Ranger, letters and dominos; Jenni Bowlin, wood veneer; Crate Paper, ink; Dylusions, gesso; Golden, flowers; crocheted by friend Dawn, twine; American Crafts

I had a lot of fun playing with stencils and creating this background.  Here is a close up so you can see it all a little better;

I really love how the gesso looks as the top layer.  Because it is a wet medium it get the spray inks wet again and the spray inks pull up through the gesso.  In some cases some people might get frustrated with this wanting an opaque white but I knew how these mediums would react with each other so was hoping for the effect.  I found wonderful finds in my embellishment stash, the crochet flowers are from my friend Dawn and had been sitting quietly waiting for the perfect layout and the Jenni Bowlin dominos are just perfect for the page.  Who knew I needed dominos?  The journaling was printed out on cream card stock, cut into strips and attached to my layout.  The black border is hand stitched with thicker floss to give a substantial border and the wood veneers are from Crate Paper but one was a natural wood color, I “stained” it to match with a Copic marker.

The layout itself was inspired after sharing the photo on a podcast with Debbie Hodge at Get It Scrapped.  We were talking about photos with Grandmas.  I had a great time sharing about the photo and got helpful suggestions of ways I might want to take the page when I got it scrapped!

Hope your week has started well, happy Tuesday!