My Favorite Books

Tuesday, February 12, 2019

MIP - Month 2 - stencils

This month, in Hilary's online course, we are working on stencils...creating our own.  Confession Time! OK, so I thought, heck, with so many cool stencils out there do I really need to make my own. Maybe I wouldn't focus on this lesson a lot.  It's a cool idea and Hilary did show some great tips in her videos.  







I got thinking...after all, this class is called "Make It Personal (MIP)" so I purchased some Mylar and heat up my soldering iron (too cheap to buy a stencil cutter and too lazy to use Xacto knife).  I found some geometric designs on google and proceeded to cut them out. And guess what! It worked...they aren't the greatest but I am lovin the large stencil...you all know I'm big on the geometric designs.











































Next up I printed using the stencils!  What a surprise!  









I really like this print!









I can see where this could be used in addition to some other stencil prints.






Next up I'll over dye the papers or maybe even print more stencil designs...but first, I have to heat up that soldering iron!  HA



5 comments:

  1. What a great idea, Robbie! I never thought of using a soldering iron to "cut" stencils.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Kuddos…..very successful……and a much easier approach than what I’ve been doing…..using clear iron-on fusible vinyl…..hard to cut…so flimsy difficult to attach to silk screen material. Tx’s for the inspiration.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Very nice results! Definitely worth it.

    ReplyDelete
  4. I've never cut stencils, but I sure love your results!

    ReplyDelete
  5. The thought process sounds like mine. I. Might add, I did some this many years ago, so that makes me an expert, rights? But the revelation is nothing like I am doing right now! I would be loving it. glen

    ReplyDelete

Had to put Word Verification back in! Getting strange messages!!!