Sketched Beauties

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May Flaum here today to share with you a technique that has me using more white paint, mist, and my stencils than ever before!

The process is super simple too – just lay down a stencil, cover it with a thick coating of white paint, and mist!

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I prefer Dylusions sprays for this – but any color would do. You can use loads of colors or just one.

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Once you are satisfied with the amount of color, lift off the stencil and let it dry!

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You can, of course, then come back in and add more colors if you aren’t happy with the results but I suggest letting it dry fully first as the colors will change as the paint and mist dries.

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I have used my painted and stenciled background to create this card.

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My bird is stamped onto specialty stamping paper and then colored with my favorite watercolor set. When I finished, I blotted the bird dry to create the cool texture effect you see.

This technique is one I just can’t get enough of! Here is another example. This time I started with a pink inked tag then used yellow and orange lists on top.

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Playing with color combinations is so much fun – and I love how well this works with this lovely new stencil of mine.

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The texture, color, and ability to get all kinds of color mediums out to play has this technique at the top of my list these days! I hope you’ve enjoyed my projects and that you try using your stencils in this way on a project in the near future!

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  1. I love the card and the tag! The colors are great on both of them, but I have to say I really love the colors on the tag. Thanks for sharing.

  2. LOVE the birds, great paint stenciling and color! Terrific cards. I can’t believe you created the awesome dimensional effect w/thick paint. I was wondering–how long does it take it to dry? :)

  3. Love it! The stamp set is beautiful and the stencil…yummy, I mean its gorgeous. Can wait to buy it!

  4. Wow, these backgrounds are beautiful. I wonder if I can use what I have in my craft room to do something similar.

  5. Love this technique. I am looking for good ideas for individual book covers for my life story for my family. I have seen several stencil techniques that will be perfect. Yours is great with paint. I have tried the fluffy spackling compound and it seems to work good too. After it is dry I paint it, but love the idea of spraying while all is wet. I love the creativity of the human mind and how we all just build a little on each other’s ideas.

  6. How long do you leave the stencil on for? Lift immediately after applying the paint and misted colour? or wait a few minutes, then remove the stencil?

    Is it a glossy paint? or Semi-gloss? or flat paint? Or, it doesn’t matter? I assume it is an acrylic craft paint?

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