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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I love hearing from you!

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

The Groove Tool

GIVEAWAY

The Groove Tool 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 26^th @ 11:59PM Central.

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

Antiqued Angels with VerDay Paints & StencilGirl

I really enjoy the look of old things. I collect antiques and love it when my new paintings can get an old feeling to them ~ worn, loved, with a story. That is one of the reasons I was excited to use the VerDay paint & patina kit.

I can not tell you how much I LOVED working with these Verday paints! There are so many possibilities.  I started off by making myself a little "cheat sheet" to see how the different layering of paints and patina gave different effects.  I suggest you do the same.

Once I decided on my palette, I began by brushing on bronze and brass paints on to my canvas.

I quickly decided to add some texture into my paint by rubbing some of it off with Carolyn Dube's crossword stencil from StencilGirl Products.

After that dried, I added some copper paint with Maria McGuire's Stitch A Greek Medallion stencil from StencilGirl Products.

I immediately sprayed the wet copper paint with the patina to activate the metal paint.

Once it dried, I got this beautiful background. LOVE.

I turned the canvas horizontal and sketched out some old world angel figures.

I finished up the canvas by adding in acrylic paints with a palette knife to give the canvas more texture and bring the angels to life with a little brush work.

Here are some close ups:

I hope you enjoyed and find some new things to make old with this great set! Be sure to follow me on Instagram @kirstenkreed or follow me on Facebook at Kirsten Reed Designs. I love hearing from you!

GIVEAWAY

4-piece VerDay Kit of Reactive Metal Paint & Patina
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 August 21st @ 11:59PM Central.

Make sure you keep hopping today with these featured artists:

August 17

StencilGirl Talk

Cheryl Darrow

Mary Beth Shaw

August 18: 

StencilGirl Talk

Carolyn Dube

Janet Joehlin

Kirsten Reed - you are here now 

August 19

StencilGirl Talk

Gwen Lafleur

Mary C. Nasser

Collaboration Fun with a Friend

On my way home from a visit to friends in Ohio, I decided to make a slight detour and visit my friend and artist Carolyn Dube.  I was SO EXCITED to play in her studio with her! You know those kind of people that just "get" you? Well, she does and we wasted no time playing, video taping and laughing. Laughing a lot!

She is the video queen and has TONS of great tutorials on YouTube including this one below.  Please excuse the disheveled look of me in the intro...she did NOT tell me we were going to tape and so I didn't get hours in the make up chair like she did! ;0

Anyway, hope you enjoy our little canvas play as we paint a layer, switch canvases and paint more.

Here are some snap shots of the canvases as we played.  Below is the video.

Does anyone else laugh when they see these words and how they "happened" together??!!

Let me know what you think!

Come Pick Daisies with Me!

Today I show you how to make two small canvases featuring the unassuming daisy. Come over and join me on StencilGirl Talk blog!

Hope to see you there! :)

Have a Heart

Come join me today on StencilGirl Talk where I will show you how I made this non-traditional heart art!

Craft Attitude & StencilGirl Help Decorate my Supplies

Welcome back everyone! I am joining StencilGirl and Craft Attitude today and marrying their products to spruce up my studio with some fun color!

Don't we all kind of want to re-vamp and re-organize a bit at the beginning of the year? I know I do! So I decided to use the StencilGirl stencils and Craft Attitude Printable Craft film to decorate a jar to hold my mega brushes (the really tall ones).  I am both organizing and crafting! :)

First thing I did was take two pieces of watercolor paper and PLAY! Uh, I mean I painted one with warm colors and stencils and the other with cool colors and stencils.  See the links at the bottom of my post for all the stencils I used.

After I had two luscious painted papers, I scanned them into my computer and printed them out onto the Craft Attitude Printable Craft Film.  It was super easy!

I then decided to cut the film into wavy strips.

I placed the film onto the jar ~ it sort of fit together like a puzzle.  I finished off the edges with a bit of bright orange ribbon.

Such an easy and quick way to add a splash of color to my jar of brushes! You could add it to almost anything you wanted.  It's very easy to use.

Hope you are inspired to get your supplies organized and have fun in the process!

Here are StencilGirl stencils I used in this project:

 

Here is a link to the Craft Attitude Film

Leave a comment to win! All comments on each post during the hop will be entered into the giveaway! One comment per post please.  Comments are eligible through Monday, January 25, 2015 at 11:59pm CST.  Winners will be posted on the StencilGirl Talk blog on Tuesday, January 27th.

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Keep checking out all the great ideas by hopping along with these great artists!

Today (Wednesday)

StencilGirl Talk

Julia Kellogg

Kirsten Reed (where you are now!)

Janet Joehlin

Thursday

StencilGirl Talk

Gwen LaFleur

Maria McGuire

Carolyn Dube

Friday

StencilGirl Talk

Terri Stegmiller

Mary Beth Shaw