Roses Stencil in Blue

I’m continuing to enjoy my stencil and watercolour experimenting, this time featuring a stencil I designed myself and cut on the cricut. The stencil is made from two sections from a rose border digital design which is part of a trio of rose themed images available in the Echidna Studios etsy store. To create more of a square stencil I joined two parts of the border design together in cricut workspace before cutting them from Grafix matte dura-lar. I know many people don’t use cricuts or digital cutting machines but the technique would work with any fine line stencil.

I painted the panel in blue paint before dropping the stencil on top, then added brusho powder and some spritzes of water. I am continuing to finalise techniques for my Stencils & Watercolour workshop here in Ottawa and this was one of the panels I created on watercolour paper. (there is one space left in the Monday workshop and several spaces in the Saturday workshop)

The sentiment was also cut on the cricut from the navy cardstock which also frames the stencil print. I know the cricut can be used for many things but my favourite use for it is definitely stencils! Looking at the photos as I write this I notice I did not glue the tittle over the ‘i’ in birthday. I had better try and find it!