I know I said I was going to get out the rotary cutter this weekend but I got a bit carried away with some organic stencilling.
Claire's gorgeous spray job & the promise of that wonderful patchwork skirted girl as well as Anna Laura's recent Mary Jane shoes have been racing around my already jumbled brain for a couple of weeks. Then I came across this mud stencil.
The recent wood obsession - a simple stencil design of my muse & I was away.
The Mud Stencil genius has a how to on his blog here.
This is what I did -
Cut: the stencil. I used a laminating pouch. It worked really well. I probably should have left it there but I laminated it. It buckled a teeny bit but there was no way I was going to cut it again. I just went for it. I told myself it would need to be tough to handle the mud!
Next: mix the mud. I just dug up a bit of dirt from the garden & mixed water in until it was sort of a bechamel sauce consistency.
Stencil: the design onto the timber. I used spray adhesive & that did the trick with the first stencil.
I did a couple more onto watercolour paper which worked OK but I didn't wipe the stencil or reapply the adhesive (& I got a bit too confident). I probably should have done both those things (& kept my ego in check).
All in all I'm pretty happy with the way my organic stencil turned out.