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craftgrrlOh, man I can hardly type, my fingers are so numb, but I am really excited about what I just made:
It's a paper stencil portrait of my little brother and my sister-in-law. I hand-cut the stencils with an Exacto knife from three pieces of Canson paper - white, grey, and black - and then layered them over each other. I've never done a multi-layered stencil before. It was painstaking, but I love the result!
I used this wonderful tutorial as a guide, although I didn't follow it perfectly.
The white layer is on the bottom, then I cut the grey, then the black. I was cursing my brother's penchant for striped shirts, although quite thankful he likes to wear sweaters over them.
And here is the original photo I played with to make my stencil:
I'm going to put it away until Christmas and give it to them as a gift. There's nothing people like more than someone who foists their homemade art on them. Hee.
It's a paper stencil portrait of my little brother and my sister-in-law. I hand-cut the stencils with an Exacto knife from three pieces of Canson paper - white, grey, and black - and then layered them over each other. I've never done a multi-layered stencil before. It was painstaking, but I love the result!
I used this wonderful tutorial as a guide, although I didn't follow it perfectly.
The white layer is on the bottom, then I cut the grey, then the black. I was cursing my brother's penchant for striped shirts, although quite thankful he likes to wear sweaters over them.
And here is the original photo I played with to make my stencil:
I'm going to put it away until Christmas and give it to them as a gift. There's nothing people like more than someone who foists their homemade art on them. Hee.
