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Two Super Easy Ways to Transfer a Stencil Design to Heavy Card.
Before you can start cutting your stencil, you’ll need to transfer your design onto the heavy card required, and that can be tedious work. When your cardstock is too thick to go through your printer, you’ll need to find another way to get the job done. Here are two reliable methods that will transfer your design onto cardstock easily and accurately.
How To Cut A Stencil By Hand
Why Cut Stencils by Hand?
Hand-cutting stencils isn’t about being old-fashioned — it’s about creative control. When you work by hand, you get to respond to the design as you go. You can adjust shapes, test ideas quickly, and allow new forms to emerge naturally.
Paper Bangles
I needed to scale it up from beads! I wasn't too sure what form this would take until I woke up one morning and it hit me; I was going to make bangles! Yay!
Very often this is what gets me out of bed in the morning, some creative spark that won't give me any peace.
Making Mobiles Love Notes
I am so proud of my first group of students!
These were first posted in our Making Mobiles Facebook group but they are so inspiring I thought I’d share some here! Thank you ladies, for your kind words!
Gelli Printing with Metallic Powders
Gelli printing with Metallic Mica powders for my new Christmas decorations was a fun project. Using materials I had never tried on the Gelli plate before, the results were very pretty!
How to Clean a Fingerprint on Your iPad
Fingerprint Jewelry: Clean Up a Fingerprint on the iPad.
Getting your fingerprint artwork super clean is the most important element of the process of making your silver fingerprint jewelry. Happily, technology now makes this so much easier and all it takes is a few inexpensive apps you can use on your iPad and phone.
In this video, I’ll show you the apps I use to get a beautiful, clean fingerprint ready to use with a photopolymer plate.
If you’ve bought my book ‘How to Make Fingerprint Jewelry’ you can just follow along and then make your photopolymer plate as usual. Then you’re only one step away from creating a unique personalised piece of fingerprint jewellery!
My First ever Mobile was a Disaster!
I recently had to back-track on how I ever got started with mobiles in the first place. That was a journey that took me back many years!
Drawing from Nature: The Story of my Tangled Branches Stencil
I am obsessed with stencils! I draw them, cut them by hand sometimes (for temporary designs) but usually they get cut by machine. There are many available right now and I started with a Silhouette Cameo a few years ago.
Having your own cutter gives you so much freedom, especially these days where it is so easy to get a design into the cutter. My friend has a Cricut and although she’s not to most tech-savvie she has absolutely no problems using it.
I have often thought about all the things I do with stencils. Many years ago I cut all my stencils and masks by hand, I mainly used them for enamelling, etching and roller printing jewellery, now I find myself having scaled up to larger work and trying them on lots of materials I had not used in my art before.
Mobiles are my new obsession!
Putting my gelli papers to work in a new way. Making mobiles is the new obsession!