I was jealous ( but a challenging jealousy !) when I saw the stencils of faces  on the blogs of Michelle Ward, forcryeye ,Gillian Allen  and Susan Warder.

Susan made Edward Scissorhands and  Sweeney Todd !!!!! They are amazing !

I wish I had these stencils on a t-shirt or a bag !

She gave a tutorial on how to make the design for a stencil using photoshop as a help to see if you need any bridges in your stencil so the stencil is in one piece.

Yesterdayevening I finished the stencil of Gaia in photoshop.

This afternoon I made the stencil in plastic ( the acrylic from the Barbieboxes).

I printed my example made with photoshop and run it trough my xyron machine with repositionable adhesive, but with the print down so the adhesive is on the image.

Then I attached the image on the back of the plastic , so I could see the design.

I cut away all the black with my exactoknife. It’s quite some work, but it came out fine.

This was my first attempt on using spraypaint and it looked OK !

This is how the stencil looked :

I painted two pages in my journal with gesso and spraypainted the stencil  in my journal .

Here is the result !

Thanks to Gillian I improved my photoshopskills further, together with all the other things I learned in this crusade.

You bet I’m looking forward to the next crusade !!

Inge