Everything is Groovin' with StencilGirl Bloghop

I am one of those people that links a song to everything.  So when I got to play with this amazing Groove Tool (by Momenta) I of course cued up "Groovin'...on a Sunday afternoon" in my head as I painted.  

I absolutely loved working with this little gem!  And although it has many functions - sanding, inking, distressing and painting - I only used it for painting with some stencils for this post. 

But oh-- I just know I will be using it again and again!

So on to the project...

I began by using a little 5"x7" canvas I had created with packing tape from my ®GelliPlate when I was cleaning it.  Since the canvas had lots of gold and a bit of teal, I stuck with that color palette.

Nothing but tape so far.

I grabbed the Lila stencil by Lizzy Mayne and laid it on the canvas and used some teal paint with the Groove Tool. woohoo! It was fun, easy and so quick and neat!

I repeated the process with brown paint and the Warped Holes stencil, also by Lizzy Mayne.

I purposely went only around the edges because I wanted space to draw.  Using my stabilo MarksAll Pencil I sketched in a bee on the left side of the canvas.

I then added in Maria McGuire's Tiny Medallion stencil in the bottom right corner; first with brown and then with gold. 

And then, I had to had the phrase "Don't worry Bee Happy" which I did with the help of Carolyn Dube's Vintage Typewriter stencil in lowercase.

And that was it ~ that's how I went groovin with the Groove Tool !  Cue the music! #grooveon

What? You want a groovy little tool too? You can purchase directly through Momenta here, or Joann's, Michael's and Hobby Lobby.  Go get your groove on!

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Here are the tools I used in today's project:

The Groove Tool

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The Groove Tool and a $25 StencilGirl Gift Certificate to one lucky winner!

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Blog Hop Order:

September 21

StencilGirl Talk

Mary C. Nasser

Mary Beth Shaw

September 22

StencilGirl Talk

Carolyn Dube

Kirsten Reed - you are here

September 23 

StencilGirl Talk

Gwen Lafleur

Janet Joehlin

Layering Texture in your Journal with USArtQuest & StencilGirl

It has been a weird for weeks for me as my oldest one has flown the nest...off to college.  So many thoughts have been swirling while I have been painting.  Although my strong suit is painting canvases, when I grow introspective I tend to pull out the journal and 'art' my feelings on to the pages.

Today, I used the beautiful paints from USArtQuest and StencilGirl to help me do just that.

First, I put a layer of the blue and green pigment paint on my page with a palette knife. I love the colors in these paints...they have a little bit of shimmer. Gorgeous colors.

I first used the Heart Flower stencil by Teri Stegmiller on a piece of black paper but I quickly changed my mind and decided to use the beautiful cream paper.  These papers are beautiful and offer instant texture (which if you know me, I love me some texture!!)

Here is the heart in cream/rose flower paper.  I kept the shape very organic and not precise.

Next, I used some old music sheet paper and Kimberly Baxter Packwood's Perched Bird stencil to trace out a bird.

I gave each of the paper elements some paint for color and glued them onto my page.

So at this point, I had the basic bones of my page.  After I had the elements glued down and they were dry, I kept adding paint with palette knife to give the page some pop and I added a quote.  The final results was this:

Be sure to follow me on Instagram @kirstenkreed or follow me on Facebook at Kirsten Reed ART. 

I love hearing from you!

Supplies I used:

GIVEAWAY

USArtQuest Decorative Papers and Perfect Pigment Acrylics
and a $25 StencilGirl Gift Certificate to one lucky winner!

All comments left on the hop list participants’ posts will be entered. 

One comment per blog. 

Comments close on September 19^th @ 11:59PM Central.

Blog Hop Order:

September 15

StencilGirl Talk

Carolyn Dube

Janet Joehlin

Mary C. Nasser

September 16 

StencilGirl Talk

Gwen Lafleur

Joe Rotella

Kirsten Reed

Art Show at Montgomery Bell Academy

If you are in the market for a new piece of art, you won't want to miss Montgomery Bell Academy's art show Sept 13-26.  There are more than 40 very talented artists in a variety of different mediums showcasing their pieces. I am so blessed to be included among them.

Here are a few pictures of me setting up ~ everything is still temporary at this stage  (signage, etc.)

The show will kick off Sunday, September 13 from 5-7pm in the Davis Building. I will post more pictures from the reception.  I hope to see you there!