Thursday, April 5, 2012

Balzer Designs Spring Stencil Hop



Welcome everyone!


I am so honoured to be a part of Julie's hop again this year.  As many of you know, not only am I a big fan, but I LOVE her stencil designs!


This hop features Pomegranate from The Crafter's Workshop:




One of the things I love about this stencil is how it can be used as either an accent, or for a complete background.  My first page reflects it's use as an accent.  I used the 6x6 version of the stencil and some spray ink:






Here's how you can use this stencil (or others!) in a simple background technique:





Don't forget to subscribe to me on Youtube for more tutorials!





I absolutely love how simple, yet stunning, this technique is!


Please check out the other artists in the Hop!


Julie Fei-Fan Balzer
http://balzerdesigns.typepad.com/balzer_designs/2012/04/stencil-hop-pomegranate.html

Leslie Jenison
http://leslietuckerjenison.blogspot.com/

Paula Phillips-  That's ME!  :)
http://www.journalartistaart.com/

Michelle LaPoint Rydell
http://inspirationeverywhere.blogspot.com/





Much LOVE xo

39 comments:

  1. love the colors you chose! Great background pages!

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  2. wowwowow!!! stunning work!! =)
    hugs, SannaS

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  3. Love the colors you used too!
    I mainly use my stencils for backgrounds too but want to expand their use as well.

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  4. I don't have this stencil yet but it's on my list, love your backgrounds using it :)

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  5. WOW. Awesome. Love the blend of colors. It's beautiful!

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  6. Stunning work - thoise backgrounds are to die for - must get that stencil now

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  7. love the stencil and you are amazing..... you perform magic with everything you touch

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  8. This stencil is more versatile than I thought it could be.
    I enjoyed peeking around your blog!
    sue_clarke@hotmail.com

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  9. Very Cool. I've hopped over and I'll be hopping back to check our more. Greetings from another Canuck in the heart of the continent!

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  10. Oh WOW! I can't get over the Beautiful looks you achieved with this Stencil. I've found you through Julie on this Wonderful Blog Hop. I have never used Stencils but am gaining such a grand amount of Information from all your Blogs. Thank You so Much. I am now off to view your You Tube Videos and have already subscribed to your Beautiful Blog. Many Thanks to you.......

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  11. This is the best thing about blog hops - a new (to me) blog!!! Thanks for doing this - would love to win some stencils myself.

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  12. This is a great technique & so effective. Thanks!

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  13. That's a really neat technique, can't wait to give it a try. I just bought some new stencils so will be a perfect opportunity to use them. Thanks for your inspiration. I will be checking your blog more often.

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  14. I love your technique and the look you got. I love the other page with the smaller stencil too.

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  15. I love stencils and crafter's workshop definitely make some of my favorite. That pomegranate looks like definite go-to design.
    Rinda

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  16. Beautiful stuff and a great technique! Thanks for being a part of the blog hop!

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  17. Such a cool technique must give this ago when I get my stencils :)

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  18. That's awesome! I love that idea.

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  19. awesome pages! Love the backgrounds.

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  20. Love this technique, the background you made is gorgeous love the color combo.... Thanks for taking part in the hop...

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  21. I love this technique. I watch one of your videos where you were using this technique and I tried it. My result is not has beautiful as yours but I'll keep trying. Maybe I was waiting to long before wiping the paint. Thanks for sharing, Johanne L.

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  22. I don't have this stencil yet but it's on my wish list, I love this technique and I want to try it!! I love your YT videos ^__^

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  23. So cool! Love that video and what a neat and easy technique!

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  24. Fantastic technique!!!! Thank you for sharing!

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  25. Julie FFB is right-you are the stencil expert and you are very inspiring. Thank you for sharing this technique.

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  26. Love the technique! Thanx for the video and all of the inspiration :)

    KimMJ
    bast830@comcast.net

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  27. I was suprised at the purple colour you got when the 2 colours mixed not what I was expecting to see so cool :)

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  28. Love your video! That's a very fun technique! Off to subscribe to your YouTube channel. :-)

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  29. Beautiful beautiful colors! I loved your video! Thanks for sharing!!!

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  30. What a fun technique! I'm gonna try this. Thanks for the inspiration!

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  31. Love the background with the pomegranate- wonderful!

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  32. I absolutely love this pomegrantate stencil.

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  33. This is fantastic! Especially the last page is my fave :) I believe this is a real must-have isn't it?

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  34. Paula- Thanks for the tutorial using the pomegranate stencil. I don't have that particular stencil but I used the same technique with 2 other stencils and really like how the page turned out. TFS
    Aloha, Kate

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  35. I never would have chosen that stencil off the rack, but now that I've seen what it can look like, I am S O L D !!!!

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  36. Oh I love this stencil and the way you've used it - amazing - love the subtleness on the first pages and the dramatic look on the second ones x Hilda

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  37. Really nice page! Thank you so much for the amazing tutorials! I'm a bit new to art journaling in mixed media and still gatering materials! I just found some webshops in my country that sell those stencils so just have to wait till my next paycheck and I'll be able to go wild too :)

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