Two days of vacation because of 1 May : time to catch up with some blogs and to look for the new crusade on the street team of green pepper press.

I participated in  the crusade  in the beginning of this month with stencils in my house and more stencils in the house and the use of masks. I promised Michelle that I would make more homework, but due to the worries for my father-in-law, the work at school and home, I didn’t cut any stencil out anymore this month.

When I was looking for the new crusade, I discovered that Michelle elongated the crusade until the 7 th of March ( because she’s off for a teaching weekend : wish I could once follow one of her workshops...).

I was also wày behind to look at all the other participants who made stencils and so I discovered the digital stencilling Suzanna did and the tutorial she made. Take a look at her blog to see the tutorial !

That was just the tickle I needed to get started ! So, thank you Suzanne !

I first scanned the image of an ornament  (book : “ornaments : patterns for interior decoration by Natascha Kubisch and Pia Anna Seger )

With the instructions Suzanne gave  I turned this image into a stencil ànd I saved it as a custom brush.

I’ve been playing with photoshop yesterdayevening and this morning to discover the possibilities and these are two results :

I used the “stencil” I saved as a custom brush, made a layer underneath it and painted it purple with my paint bucket. On a new layer I distressed the purple background with a dry brush with white paint ( put it on a very low flow : about 10) .

After that I colored parts of the stencil in different layers ( so you can throw the layer away if you’re not satisfied without distroying the work you do like).

I used different brushes on a low flow : wet sponge, dry brush,...

I also made a digital collage : “gardenfairy”

Isn’t she cute ?

Thanks to Michelle’s crusade  and Suzanne  tutorial I learned new things with photoshop and it’s fun !

Inge