Stencilling for Journals and Textile Art

I have uploaded my first video to youtube of a stencilling tutorial. It is a good way to add pattern and colour to journal pages and to fabric before stitching. 

I found it so difficult  to watch myself on the video but I suppose I will have to get used to it because there are some more coming up soon. ha ha. Hopefully I will get better at it!

I have used the wonderful Crafters Workshop stencil 'Spring Fling'. There are so many ways you can use them and they come in so many fab designs. They are very addictive!

Another Page waiting for me to play.

I have decorated some more pages in my new journal and they are just waiting for me to have time to do something with them. I really enjoy making the pages though so I don't mind waiting. It will be nice to have a whole book of backgrounds to play with one day.

This one is stencilled through a Crafters Workshop Stencil and has had doodles added on top following the design of the stencil. This is one of the first stencils  that I bought from Crafters Workshop. It is a really useful pattern and I have used it so many times on so many surfaces.

This is a detail of the pattern. I often make a whole sheet of the backgrounds and then cut them up to make pieces for Handmade Cards, Artist Trading Cards, and pages for Altered Books.