StencilGirl and Eileen Hull Inspiration Team Blog Hop

Welcome to the last day of the week-long StencilGirl and Eileen Hull Blog Hop!

All this week members of both design teams have been sharing their creative projects 

using the wonderful products from the StencilGirl and Eileen Hull brand items.

Please click on ALL the blogs on the hop list at the end of this post

to see their inspiring projects and to leave comments for the grand prize drawing!

If you have been following all week, you are here at the last project.

But if you're starting here at the end, please go back and catch up on all the great fun earlier this week.

For my project, I made a cute little art journal with Eileen's fabulous

  Sizzix Mini Album die, a favorite of mine.

Click here to see the steps for constructing this quick and simple album, 

using wallpaper and baker's twine, made while I was enduring this last fast-paced month of construction in my new painting studio.

The journal pages in the mini album were cut from white Bristol paper 

with Eileen's album die to be the same size as the journal cover. 

On these pages, I used two StencilGirl stencils in layers:

the 6" square Leaves 6 Stencil and the larger Garden Swirl Stencil.

 

Happily, the 6" leaves stencil is just a little larger than the 5+1/2" die-cut page,

allowing the design to float gently off the edges.

Using a Copic marker (YG03), I filled in the leaves with quick strokes

to allow for some natural shading.

It's really easy to fit the Copic brush tip in the small areas of the stencil.

Then, keeping the stencil in place, I highlighted with more Copic markers 

(YG61, B00, and Y17) on the tips of the leaves.

Next, to add some depth to the overall leaf pattern, 

I laid the leafy areas of the Garden Swirl Stencil over top, 

outlining the stencil shapes with a Derwent Metallic colored pencil 

(Green 91- looks blue), then lightly coloring in where the stencil itself was solid.

Because this was to be a background for writing,

I faded the colored pencil more by slightly erasing it, leaving the faint metallic imprint.

I know, erasing is not much fun.  But if you listen to some blues guitar, you can better 

get in the rhythm of this little life challenge. :)

Now the pages were ready for doodling and writing encouraging reminders to myself as I slowly move into my new studio space.

I used a waterproof black pen to letter and the same Copics to fill in the doodled border.

You may have to enlarge the photos to better see the effect of the penciled stencil in the background.

To see another mini album made using Eileen's Craffiti barn wood and flower wreath stamps, which I sampled when they were first released, please click here.

GIVEAWAY

Such a great prize package awaits one lucky commenter on this blog hop.

Leave a comment on this blog to be entered to win.

All comments left for the entire week August 18-22 on all blogs in the hop

will be eligible for the grand giveaway prize.

One comment per blog post.

Comments will close Sunday, August 24, at midnight Central Time.

Winner will be announced on Tuesday, August 26.

Today's Blog Hop Order

StencilGirl Talk (see days 1-5)

Janet Joehlin

Maria McGuire

Beth Watson

Pam Keravuori (you are here)