mini tutorial: homemade flower stencil
Friday, September 13, 2013 at 1:01AM I have been wanting to try to make my own stencils for awhile now and when I stumbled across this plastic at my local Wal-Mart I had to give it a try. I also needed a sharp knife, a cutting mat and a permanent marker. This is what I did if you want to give it a try yourself.
Step One: Draw a template with a permanent marker on cardstock. (you could use tracing paper too, but I had trouble with the pencil smearing as I was cutting) Place template under piece of stencil plastic and staple or tape the edges to hold in place.
Step Two: Place on cutting mat and slowly and carefully cut away all the parts you wanted REMOVED from your stencil.
Keeping the flowers all connected was a bit tricky so I actually ended up with two seperate stencils. One with two flowers and one with three. I sprayed it heavily so you could see the detail better.
Here I used the same stencil, rubbing paint over it instead of spraying it with ink.
This really wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be. I think I might give it another go this week.
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Reader Comments (4)
Very nice. You used the stencil in a great way. I love it! ( I make a lot of stencils this way and the main fun is creating the stencils. Then I use them once or twice... and then I make the next). Being creativ.
These flowers are so cute. Good job. Thank you for sharing. I definitely want to try some. These remind me of some little flower masks that I made one time out of hot glue to use with spray ink. If you want to try it, here's the post http://ceeceeart.blogspot.com/2013/07/hot-glue-flower-masks.html
I love your floral stencils. The ones I have made are from old overhead projector transparencies or the covers of spiral bound booklets. I draw my stencil on paper and then lay the acetate over my drawing so I can cut it out. I really like repurposing and recycling materials.
yeah! It's pretty hard to keep them connected! BUT the result is awesome anyways! I love it very much! You can basically create any pattern you want, as long as you find a way of cutting it! :)