Stencil Girl Products typewriter stencil blog hop.

Hello!

I'm totally excited to be participating in this FAB blog hop for Stencil Girl Products!

Today we are featuring Nat Kalbach's typewriter design for Stencil Girl.

On the eye candy menu today:

Nat Kalbach

Martha Richardson

Maria McGuire

Corrine Gilman

Michelle Hernandez (you're here- woot!)

I hope you swing by all the participating blogs to see how each artist used Nat's fab stencil design.

LOVE the styling of this design! A+ Nat!

It wouldn't be a proper blog hop without a GIVE AWAY.

One lucky reader will win a typewriter stencil on Nat's blog.

You can increase your chances by leaving one comment on each participating blog.

Deadline is Tuesday August 20th.

Good luck!

Normally I'm a fairly traditional Mommy scrapbooker but every once in a while I'll bust out a mixed media project to keep things real. (Ha!)

I love the hand drawn styling of this stencil so I put together a fairly abstract canvas using papers from Cosmo Cricket's 2wenty Thr3e line. 

Materials: light molding paste on Nat's Stencil Girl Products typewriter stencil, gesso to adhere cut paper to the canvas and water color pencils to give the background some depth.

Believe it or not this took me all day. !!!!

I wanted to make something inspiring I could stare at when I'm having a off moment (which is all the time).

Questions swirled in my head.
Should I include a famous quote? 

Do I add a photo?
Do I go for lots of white space or fill this baby up?

Going abstract scares me because it's quite challenging to make the work relatable but I've always found the genre incredibly invigorating and thought provoking so I decided to put my inhibitions aside and see where this took me.

I also made a quick card with bits from my first attempt:

This is on it's way to you Nat! Thank you and congrats on this new venture. 

You've put a wonderful new tool into my paint stained hands!

This is the last stop on the hop.

I hope we gave you something to think about and admire.

Don't forget to leave a comment to be entered into the drawing!

Michelle

My First Christmas Page!!!

I DO NOT do "theme" pages. I DO NOT do "Happy Birthday" or "It's Halloween" or "You're PREGS!?? YAAAY!" Why? It's hard. So here's my simple page- simple does not mean easy. I struggled with this for 4 days. Mostly because I'm trying to be unique and mostly because I have no Christmas photos yet so go easy- or get picky- both help. :)

Black Friday- unlit

Black Friday- LIT!

It's supposed to be funny. Yes ok... tomorrow I go to take some real Christmas shots...

Used in this project: Embossed Twirl paper from Paper Presentation on 18th street, Glitter leaves from Michael's, canvas flowers from Jillibean Soup and filament lights from Pottery Barn. The lights are awesome! They run on batteries so I don't have to worry Miss Lola will electrocute herself when she goes after them on our mini tree.

MuChOs SmOoChEs!

M.