Terri Stegmiller’s Stencil Blog Hop ~ Give-Away!

Are you excited?  You should be… it’s the “Terri-Terrific” Stencil Blog Hop ~ yay!

If you don’t know it already, Terri truly is a wonderful Artist.  {with a capital “A”}!  I am so excited~so blessed, to be part of ‘showing off’ her newly designed stencils in the Blog Hop!  I’ve long been a fan of her style, whether it’s quilts, {her adorable kittens}, paintin, and now her stencils!  I’m showing two designs; the first of which is “Flowers 20.”

Stencil Girl Products presents “Flower 20” from designer Terri Stegmiller

Cute, isn’t it?  So here’s the first thing I did; I sprayed a light yellow s.e.i. tumble dye spray-dye through the stencil, onto some plain ol white fabric. 

Now, enter two of my favorite color combos; lime green and turquoise blue!

Now don’t let that bright yellow spray dye color go to waste on the top of the stencil.  Flip the stencil over, and using a brayer, roll gently over the top of the stencil, transferring the color once again, in a reverse image of the flower stencil.

Cool beans!  And with the stencil flipped over, spray a bit more color {I used the lime green and the blue colors here}, and overlapped the design on the previous yellow printed surface.  Beautiful! 

Here’s the second stencil: “Antennas Stencil L119”

This is how it looks, just simply layering it, on top of the previous printed fabric with the flower stencil:

And of course I kept on going, layering the stencil and dyes…  Did you know you can see a video of this process also, on Terri’s blog?  You can! The video “Stenciled Fabric Surfaces” is here, under her “tutorials” category on the blog.  This is her blog link.  I’m pretty sure you can get your own party started with her video as inspiration, too!

Continuing to play with color, I switched to several different fabrics; batiks, hand-dyed’s, cotton sateens, and printed ‘white-on-white’ commercial fabrics, {and even cotton velvet}.  {Yup ~ a hurricane came through my studio}.  Pictured below is one of my favorites! 

I stenciled the flower design to a piece of pale pink, dotted batik fabric {below}.  I really like the ‘double your fun’ with graphical design elements in other pieces of printed, commercial fabrics.  The dots really pop.

I experimented with my FW Inks, too.  These inks really are a fabulous product, which I also learned about from reading Terri’s blog.  {have I said what a terrific Artist she is?!} They really look good through the stencil.  I diluted the ink a little bit even, and it still looks so great.  I just used a small black foam brush for application, dabbing it in an ‘up and down’ motion.  You don’t want your brush soaked… go easy, and apply in several light applications.

I think it’s rich-looking; love the ‘not so perfect’ print the best!  Note that I’m using the FW inks in their Pearlescent medium.  Soooo beautiful!  {Idea:  these would look so cool cut out and appliqued ~ I will be showing those tomorrow!}

and this one is quite charming too, especially with the black text fabric:

 and… my MOST favorite of the FW ink prints {so far!}… this one, shown below.  Look at the background; the layering is subtle, but this base fabric was a bright pink, {with text in white} and I added yellow, and a dash of purple blues in the antenna stencil first… then proceeded with the FW inks in a couple different tones of white pearl, pink pearl, and a dash of blue-purple.  Love!  {I mean LOVE!}

I brought out a piece of my hand-dyed fabric… knowing the spray colors wouldn’t always show against such a bright dyed piece, but hey ~ what the heck? I like to try the unexpected … cuz ya just never know how much you might {unexpectedly} like it {or don’t} until you try!  And I do like it!  It’s gives the subtle print a little bit of added texture, and I really like that.

And this is the cotton sateen sample: {are you tired of seeing my play action, yet?}  I hope not… the good stuff’s comin’ ~ i promise!

Flowers and Antenna stencil printed onto white commercial fabric with S.E.I. Tumble Dyes

All of Terri’s new designs are available for purchase, from Stencil Girl Products.  Be sure to visit all the other artists participating in the Stencil Blog Hop.  You can enter for more chances to win some of Terri’s great stencils! KICKOFF Sunday:  Jan. 20 – Terri Stegmiller
Monday: Jan. 21 – Leslie McNeil, {Flowers and Antennas}
Tuesday: Jan. 22 – Deborah Boschert, {Waves & Spinners}
Wednesday: Jan. 23 – Margaret Applin, {Leaves & Squiggles}
Thursday: Jan. 24 – Brenda Gael Smith, {Sign Posts, Curvy Fronds}
Friday: Jan. 25 – Vicki Welsh, {Striped Circles & Straight Fronds}
Saturday: Jan. 26 – LuAnn Kessi, {Tire Tracks & Slices}
Sunday: Jan. 27 – Sue Bleiweiss, {Broken Circles & X-12}