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Creating Forest Path Wood Burning Stencil Signs , A Customer Creation

We feel so proud, here at Stencil1 every time someone shows us what they made!
Check out this exciting project – Our customers created wood burning stenciled signs for a forest path in Eberswalde, Germany only 65 km south of Berlin! A small school with 90 pupils wanted to help out the local park ranger create signs for the various paths within the woods. They used our Baby Deer Stencil to create wood burning signs! They will keep us updated a long this project.

Check Them Out! These Students Smiles’ Say Everything!

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A Home for the Golden Chevron Octopus

This Was Such a Great Find! By luck, we came across an abandoned wooden octopus! We weren’t sure what to do with him since he was so large. Black paint with gold accents sounded perfect though.

Materials Needed:

This is very small and simple project. Here is the process.

Step 1: Washing The Octopus. We used a hard bristle brush and soap to wash the octopus. Some of the blue paint came off but no worries, we can cover this up later.

Step 2: Let it dry out, Use Black paint or black Gesso to cover up the octopus

Step 4: Using the Octopus Stencil and some tape, I placed it down in the head of the octopus. I went in with Gold acrylic paint and felt like it wasn’t enough. I wanted to give the golden octopus a little bit of depth so I started to mix the gold with Gel Matte Medium.

Step 5: Just go ahead and layer the paint and medium with the stencil. Allow it to try between each application.

Step 6: Now Add the Chevron pattern to most of the tentacles, leaving a lot of black space to balance the composition.


Step 7: Go back and clean any rough edges with a flat shader brush in the size extra small. And You’re Done!

Art is a Love Language
~ Yuli, Stencil1 Team Member

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How to Use Stencils with Glass Art

Stencils and Glass? Yes it’s a thing, a good thing!

BYOS – Bring Your Own Stencils, that’s what I did…to a glass making studio! Stencils can be used in so many mediums and my experimentation with glass produced some beautiful results if I do say so myself :). Here is how I used Stencil1 stencils with glass to make a hummingbird glass window ornament:

Materials You Will Need:

  • Detailed Birds Stencil 4 Pack
  • Tape
  • Glass Dust
  • Detail Brushes
  • Solvent
  • A Sturdy Flat Surface
  • A Small Spoon
  • Elmers glue
  • A Stove or Kiln or all this in a glass studio

I wanted to work on an optimistic, Spring themed image and the hummingbird was a perfect choice. It’s also great because it is a stencil design with a lot of bold open shapes, perfect for filling with glass powder!

I was provided a 7″ x 7″ white sheet of glass, that’s my surface for today! You have to wipe it clean with alcohol, no oil should be on the surface. I then planned the layout of the design and thought it might look best to turn my square glass shape to a diamond-like position and attach a chain to the top point for hanging.

I brushed in a little bit of watered down glue into the wing area and then sprinkled in glass powder.

I continued the process with a few colors of powdered glass. you can see here that I am creating ombre blended effects by the way I sprinkle the dust. I also always use my darker colors on face details, it helps to really see the detail of those features!

Here’s a shot of the different glass dust colors the studio offered. I love supporting small, local businesses like this. You don’t have to buy all the supplies, just visit, create, and everyone is happy! But yea, I also was like so how much is a kiln, haha! The art is addictive!

I also created a frame around the piece using these long sticks of glass, similar to hard pasta. It looked a little too structured for my taste so see what I did next…

I added these chunkier glass pieces around the edges to add some “atmosphere” to my little birds world. It adds some whimsy and texture. I then used a tweezer to adjust them to the composition I wanted.

Notice how I cut a small triangle shape up top and layered my hook in the layers of glass, a hook sandwiched between two pieces of white glass. The piece of white glass you see above the art piece is being used to simply prop up my hook so it doesn’t flop down while the glue is drying it inside the “sandwich”.

Once you remove the stencil, add your other elements of glass, you can use small tools to clean up your design. You can push some sand around, move shards around, and get it all to it’s final position before it get’s fired.

Your stencil has done it’s purpose and can be washed with warm soapy water. It’s ready for storage and to be used many more times!

The design was then spritzed with a very thin glue spray, almost like hairspray.

The piece was then placed on special paper that it sits on in the kiln. That’s me Eddie 🙂

Here’s a shot of the piece all finished, I am so happy with how the dust gets darker. Oh, forgot to mention I placed a small black glass bead for the eye. I think the eyes should pop in an image so this little bird got a nice dark eye.

Once completed, hang your piece proud! As shops reopen, please search for your local glass studios and bring Stencil1 stencils with you to try this technique. We would love to see what you make!

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“Would The World be a Better Place?” Animals in Vintage Frames Journal Spread

“If the shoe was on the other hoof, would the world be a better place?”. This journal spread was inspired by the Rococo Frame Stencil. I immediately envisioned framed animals hanging on a vintage wallpaper background.

I started by using the Solid Scallop Stencil. I traced the pattern in pencil on a piece of scrapbook paper from Tim Holtz and cut out all the scallops. I next painted the journal pages in PaperArtsy Sand Fresco Finish Paint and used 3 strips of washi tape in a blush and gold flower pattern to start the “wallpaper pattern. I added a cracked stamp from FrancePappilion over the whole background using Archival Coffee Ink from Ranger.

After covering the washi with clear gesso, I placed the Damask small stencil over the washi stripes and sponged PaperArtsy Caramel paint through the pattern onto the pages.

I arranged the scallops onto the pages and decided they needed a bit more decoration so I mixed some Amethyst PaperArtsy paint into some Hard Molding Paste from Golden to color and spread through the Quatrefoil Stencil over the scallops individually on a craft mat. I added some Vintage Beeswax Baked Texture Powder from SethApter around the edges of the scallops to make them feel flocked and three dimensional.

I grabbed 2 vintage dictionary pages and placed the Rococo Frame Stencil on top and sponged WOW Clear Embossing Ink through. I sprinkled WOW Crusty Copper Embossing Powder over the stenciled frame design and heat set. I painted chrome Mirror Paint onto the field of the frame and distressed with a small dot stamp to provide an antique mirror effect. I fussy cut some amazing illustrations on a piece of decorative wrapping paper (I think purchased from the Paper Source) and made slits on the side of the mirrors to slide the animals in.

I glued all the elements down with a UHU glue stick and some Regular Gel Matte from Golden. These pages finished with a typewritten quote and some splatters of Sargasso Paint from PaperArtsy along with some Desert Baked Velvet Embossing Powder to anchor the Framed Elephant and Tiger to the outer edges.

Hoping we can all start taking better care of our planet and all the animals it inhabits 🙂

This project was brought to you by the talented Tracy Hickman (@anonymous.palette on Instagram)

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EARTH STENCIL – FREE

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Show your love of Mother Earth by using this FREE earth stencil! Download the file, print it, trace it onto a sheet of mylar, plastic, or thicker card stock, cut it out, use it!

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If you don’t want to cut it out, we now sell the earth stencil laser cut on a mylar sheet HERE