Lots of mileage from one stencil.....

Last spring I decided to try cutting my own stencils and some stamps.

Pretty simple, but fun, just using an old file folder I drew and cut out a tree.  I purchased some Speedball "Speedy-Cut" and carved out a bird and a house.

Here's how I've used them......one was a journal page.

Painted the background and sprayed the tree...used the leaf stamp in the tree and the bird stamp for a border along the bottom.

Next, I used a canvas and again painted and sprayed......

  again the birds for the border!  This week I'm using the same stencil in a couple different ways.......

showed you this one the other day....today, this version!

My camera makes give this bulge in the middle look....it really does have straight sides!!!  I scanned the one above into the computer, think that is a better idea, if the art fits.

On the piece above and, on this one, I painted the background added tissue paper that has the birds and birdcage print then I sprayed and painted the tree trunk, using the stencil. 

I used the leaf stamp on both, for the bottom tree I added copper and wire screen leaves for dimensional look, like this......

I think my original stencil has about "had it" but you've got to admit I've gotten a lot of mileage out of that old file folder.

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