Today is Day 2 of the StencilGirl® & Aladine, Seth Apter IZINK Blog Hop Collaboration & GIVEAWAY! Yesterday, Seth showcased five artists unique styles and creations and today the StencilGirl® team is revealing theirs. If you have not played with Seth’s new products by Aladine, you will be in for a real treat. I chose to work, and by work, I mean, PLAY with his IZINK Dye Sprays but he also has Pigment Inks and ICE Translucent Glaze, all of which are amazing and work so well with stencils! Pretty sure you will have great results with whatever product is calling your name. And then of course, ANY stencil from StencilGirl® is going to make you look and feel like an artist. There are like a gazillion stencils to choose from, all designed by amazing artists. (It’s always hard for me to pick which ones to use!) Although I have seen Seth demoing his products in class, I had not played with them prior to this project so for the first time I cracked open his Dye Sprays . To get started, I just played. A lot. I changed out stencils and colors and, I will admit, I got messy because that is the kind of artist I am and for me, it is the only way to discover what works, what doesn’t, what I like and how to get to a happy place. Here is what transpired at the END of my play but hold on because I will show you what my early beginnings looked like too!
Ok, so let’s talk the background. It was created by using a dirty gelli plate. That means I didn’t clean my gel plate entirely from the last time I used it so that when I applied my navy and white acrylic paints to the plate with a brayer, whatever remaining dried paint that was on there, came up with the new paint. Ah, that is the stuff I love! This is the time that it pays to play dirty! 
Next I sprayed IZINK Dye Spray in Blue Moon onto the substrate. There were areas that had no acrylic paint and it absorbed up the fast drying dye immediately. The spray resisted some of the acrylic paint but filled in where there were missing spots. (See white spots above). What I loved was how it punched up the color. And that blue is divine! I then did a tiny spritz of Spring Green in one area that had been white.
Once the background was set up, I began working in my stencils. I used the Goldmine spray over the top of two of Seth’s stencils from his ATC Mixup #2 collection. Love that set because of the tiny details in each one. Great for detailed work and for small projects. I added the spray significantly to the right and then bits to the left and the bottom. (You know the rule of threes). Gorgeous gold btw.
I love the fact that some of the mist flew onto other parts of the substrate.
I incorporated some of Seth’s dies into this piece, misting them with Goldmine and a touch of Blue Moon. Dies used were Sunburst , Coffee Ring and Citrus Slice. Hoping he is bringing these back.
Using Seth’s stamps from Impression Obsession called “Journal Jargon”, I added two messages to my art. “Bohemian”, was stamped onto a piece of sprayed, mixed media cardstock using Hero Arts® Intense Black Ink and then stitched on one side with black thread. “Wanderer” was stamped lightly on the opposite side, directly onto the media.
So there’s that.
Now onto the play. When you get your sprays, take some time to just play. Pull out your favorite StencilGirl® stencils and go to town. Mix and match patterns and colors. Watch how the colors respond to each other. Use both the stenciled paper and the stencil itself to make more designs. I actually enjoyed the simplicity of the stencils and dyes and almost stopped here.
I paired Seth’s ATC MixUp stencils with Andrew Borloz’s stencil, Retro Tiles Large using the Green, Blue and Gold sprays. Look at how vibrant the colors are and how well the stencils play together!
It wasn’t long before I began another creation using Seth’s ATC MixUp stencils, Carol Wiebe’s Caves & Ladder from StencilClub 2018 and Andrew Borloz’s Retro Tiles Large. Again, I misted the gel plate art with Blue Moon, Goldmine and Spring Green. It’s a total WIP. Totally. But it’s growing on me. Need a few mark makings or stitches.
So there you have my spin on things. No doubt Tina Walker has created magic with her amazing creativity and unique style. She’s next up on the hop.
You can catch the other participants here…
And if you missed yesterday’s hop, you can find them here…
or see them altogether on Seth’s blog
GIVEAWAY
A $35 Gift Certificate to StencilGirl® Products
AND a $35 Gift Certificate to Seth Apter’s Shop!
Enter to win by leaving a comment below.
Then be sure to visit the other blogs in the hop and comment to win.
The more blogs you comment on, the more chances you have to WIN!
Two winners will be chosen at random from all blog comments!
(One comment per blog please.)
You have until Wednesday, June 3rd at 11:59PM Central Time to leave your comments.
Winners will be announced on
StencilGirl® Product’s Facebook page and Seth Apter’s blog on Thursday, June 4th.
I love the texture! How cool is this! I love blog hops!
This is a beautiful piece! Love the colors you chose.
Debi, your art always seems to draw me into it in the best ways possible. I love finding the smallest details that add so much interest. The composition and colors for your piece are stunning! (And I now know I must have that gold spray in my life!) I really love how you were able to get the inks to layer giving the stencil areas prominence without dominating. Amazing art, thank you so much for sharing your creative talents!
Beautiful! Thank you for sharing your process – always amazing to see how to get from start to finish.
These products go so well together! Your pieces have such wonderful colors and details! Thank you for such an inspiring hop!!
This is a gorgeous piece! Exquisite layers!
Lovely!
Debi, the details you add are so subtle yet so beautifully placed. Love both pieces, so inspiring
Phenomenal work as always. Love the background on this piece and your treatment of the die cuts is stellar. It just calls my name!! Thanks for being a part of this event!!
Love it! The blues & the golds play so beautifully with each other.
Great use of Seth’s dies.
Your work is fabulous. Thanks for sharing your techniques!!
Love these grungy blues. Thanks for the chance to win
This is beautiful. I’m a sucker for blue/green color schemes add Seth Apter dies and I’m in heaven. I’m pleasantly surprised that the gold is both highly pigmented and simultaneously subtle. Great job.
Your colors really pop! I loved the special sewing detail. I love dimensional work and it added just the right touch.
Nice work
That blue and gold together is gorgeous! Thanks for sharing. Now i must go shop lol
Debi
This is amazing. I love how grungy it feels and that works so beautifully with a dirty gell plate pull.
Great project, Debi, and I think I like your WIP even better. Intrigued to see how it ends up!
I like your process, Debi. Thank you for showing your layering techniques and colors. Striking.
Thank you for sharing your work and the detailed description of your technique. It’s really quite wonderful.
I will look for your IG.
Totally gorgeous piece, and the color choice was fantastic! Thank you for the inspiration, tips, and mini tutorial!
I love all sprays. They are so versatile. I absolutely love the color palette on this piece. Thanks for sharing and for the chance to win!
Your work is beautiful and looks so complex.
Love the finished piece and the first layer equally! So lovely.
Love the depth and colors!
Neat-freak as I am I haven’t even contemplated not cleaning my gel plate each time. I really love your dirty gel plate background!
I really like the combination of patterns and especially the gold on the blues.
Beautiful work! The color palette is something I will certainly want to play with.
My preferred color palate is a little different than the colors you used, but this is lovely. I am sure he has other colors that are more me.
Great pages and I have some little books that need to have interior pages filled,so thanks for the inspiration.
Love what you did! Especially the blue and gold together!
I love your composition and colors!
These are both amazing pieces of art! I love how you composed them…and they are both the colors I gravitate towards. Wow!
Beautiful artwork! Love that sunburst die pattern!
Beautiful piece. Love seeing your technique.
Wow….Just the indigo spray with the stencil alone was very cool. Hard to know where to stop! (And, truth: you have to get messy if you want to discover new things!)
I agree, the colors are marvelous and I can’t wait to try the Goldmine spray!
I love this piece! It really showcases your talent as well as the products you used.
Love how your projects turned out, the one featured on the StencilGirl page, grabbed my attention immediately. I also just happened to get that citrus Seth Apter die on clearance for Spellbinders, will definitely bust open that package and use it. Thanks for the inspiration!
I love the colors and effects you get with the stencils and materials. Thanks!
Debi, your piece is fabulous! It has everything…color, texture, composition. Of course since blue is my favorite color, I just keep staring at it, noticing all the other small areas of color that make this piece so rich. I dont have any of these products and I’m definitely going to have to check them out. Thanks for the inspiration and your talents.
This is stunning! The colors are so rich, and I love the grunge!!
Design and colors are spectacular. As usual, word is not needed. I think it distracts from beauty and mystery of colors and mood.
These look like so much fun! I love how you used them in your beautiful finished piece
Love the colors in this and starting with a dirty gel plate.
Really love how this project turned out. I love the colors and the stencils! Please enter me.
I love how the crusty bits come off the gel plate and leave texture and color. Also love your color use and the use of stencils and die cuts. This is fabulous!!!
You amaze me, Debi! I love the composition of this – thanks for the inspiration! (janisgraham at yahoo dot com)
Love what you did! These are new products to me…looks like some new toys/tools are in order…
Gorgeous!
Love your work! Thanks for sharing so I can be inspired!
The dies really jump off the page. That gelli print background was a fabulous begining.
I love the whole look, but I especially like the color combination! Well done.
Thank you for showing the beginning stages…. layer layer and more layers!!! Sometimes I look and think, this piece sucks… and lo and behold when you add more layers and stick with it… fabulousness happens !
Beautiful! thank you for explaining your process!
wow love the colors and such good information on what you used and did.
Thank you for showing your creative process! I really love the color pallet.and composition of your art work. Just fantastic!
I love this layout. Great color combinations.
This is terrific – all those wonderful layers!!
It’s always so helpful to hear about your process. Thank you for sharing!
Your backgrounds are absolutely amazing! Thanks for sharing your process.
Such beautiful results. I can’t wait to try this products!
Love the effects from the spray and stencil combos. The colors are yummy
Debi, I love the colors and the way that you used the products. So lively!
Spectacular color, amazing shimmer and love the energy of your design!
Spectacular color, gorgeous shimmer, love the energy of your design!
Thanks Debi for sharing this tutorial, it’s great! You have inspired me with so many ideas here! Your results are gorgeous!
I love this… I especially like how you incorporated so many different layers! Love the stitching
Wow, Debi Adams!! These are gorgeous! Love the color palette, texture, and 3-dimensionality! Thanks for sharing!
Your work is amazing! I love the colors so much. Thanks for sharing!
Love your work. And the how to.
Too bad that sunburst die was discontinued. Your piece is lovely! Thank you for sharing your process … one Debi to another.
This is absolutely stunning! Thanks for sharing.
What a beautiful piece. I love your work/play process. Thank you for sharing. I want all of the products you used, unfortunately some are no longer available.
oh my gosh! I could just look at this for hours!
Love the layers and colors and your wonderful attention to detail!
So absolutely inspiring!!
Gorgeous Debi and love the texture from the dirty gel plate print, makes my heart go pitty-pat! Thanks for sharing how you used Seth and StencilGirl’s wonderful products, Deb xo
Love the colors and the added bit of texture. Very cool!
Debi, you’ve inspired me to have a play with my sprays! I haven’t done much with them yet. And that blue is amazing! Love your piece
You have used my favorite colors. And the sprays are beautiful
Beautiful work. I love the blue and gold together.
I may have drooled a little. And, once I stopped taking in the details of your artwork I noticed what appears to be an empty and very cool shelving unit behind your artwork. First, how do you even have an empty shelf? And, second, what is the piece. Looks really interesting.
great use of a dirty gel plate. love that stencil you used -starburst?? and the gold metallic is wonderful.
Your piece is beautiful, I love the blue moon dye ink.
great choice of colors and stencils — I love the spray inks, too!
Gorgeous! Love the colour
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So much depth n the blues!
love this! beautiful work!
I love what you created here. The colors and texture is amazing.
Thanks so much for taking the time to demonstrate the new paints and inks! Although it was not a featured product, I may need to look up the journal jargon stamps
Love it Debi!
Beautiful! Love the colors together and the variety in the stencil work..
Cool work. I love the colors.
I’m so inspired! Such wonderful layers, color and texture! Thank you!
Wow, your art is amazing!
Love these works, fantastic way to handle the izink products!
Debi Adams you knocked it out of the ball park. Gorgeous piece, just loved it!
Oh wow! I love this page, the gold is gorgeous.
I need those stencils. love your style
Love, love love this piece! The colors and layer made me look and look.
Thank you for the inspiration in using these wonderful products Both of you pieeces are fabulous!
I love the colors you used. I am just starting to accumulate products and stencils. Having fun trying out everything.
Love the texture on these!
HiDebi. Love your project. You make everything extra special with the details and special “Debi” touches. Beautiful
IT Is a lovely WORK
Love the depth and texture
I fell in love with your art as soon as I saw it on the Stencil Girl blog. It’s fabulous and I loved reading how you created it.
Absolutely love the samples and techniques shown!!
Can’t wait to try:)
Gorgeous art piece!! Love the yellow and blue tones in combination!
I love these pieces. The combined textures and colors look really great. Thanks for sharing your process.
Such an awesome piece! You used my favorite new color BLUE! I hardly ever used it and now I can’t get enough! I love the gold accents also! Nice use of Seths products!
I love the different textures you use in your work. I like using modeling paste with stencils but I’ve often wondered if modeling paste can be colored with paint without changing the texture of the modeling paste. I would like to use brightly colored modeling paste on a black background. Love your work.
DEBBIE YOUR WORK IS SENSATIONAL, I SIGNED UP TO FOLLOW YOUR BLOG. THANK YOU FOR BEING KIND ENOUGH TO SHARE.
Deb, I love your work. The colors, textures and imaginative use of design are wonderful!
Stunning layers, and use of colours.
Thank you for the opportunity. Times are so tough for so many people right now. Acts of kindness like this one really make a difference. Good luck to everybody else and may your kindness be returned 100-fold. The gift of art is just what people need to make life a little easier.
This is gorgeous!!
ok, you’ve convinced me: Ice is next on my shopping list! Love your tyle!
I love all the visual texture you creates and I adore these colors
will be taking your inspiration and playing on – thank you
I love learning new things and seeing what everyone is doing with the Seth’s & Stencil girls’ products. Lots of fun ideas!
LOve the colours, stencils and the depth you created with them.
Gorgeous colors and love all the layers. Can’t wait to use the products.
Beautiful project!
Love your gel press print and all the yumminess you got from the dirty plate – so much texture to it. Thanks for sharing.
Love your pages, especially the colors and the texture!
Thank your for sharing your process—what a fabulous piece–great colors–great stencils–and great talent–I just love this piece
Love your style.
I just love this piece.
Love your colors and layering. ThAnk you!
Wowsa! Blue and gold is one of my very favorite color palettes. The contrast is incredible, and this is such a soothing piece. It’s kind of like looking into a dream, if that makes any sense.
Great tip about leaving the gelli plate “dirty”. It adds pizazz
What fun! Thank you for sharing!!!
I was afraid the sprays would lift when another liquid was put on top. It doesn’t look like that happened though. Beautiful work!
Beautiful. Love the colour combination.
Wow, love your project. Such wonderful depth of color and beautiful design.
Hi, thanks a lot for your detailed instructions, love blues and gold together !!!
I love the colors and the details! Wow!!
Dirty gelli plates are my favorite… love the 1st image the most, so diimensional!
Such a beautiful piece! Thank you for your wonderful descriptions of not only which products and how you used them, but what happened when you did. This is very helpful.
This is a beautiful piece! I love the navy blue and gold together along with how layers were used on this piece of artwork..
I enjoyed hearing your process for the main piece and also the play piece.
This is just wonderful! I love the depth in it.
I adore all those grungy happy layers.
This is beautiful, love the colors and design
Wow, I am going to stop cleaning my gel plate. I love how textural this piece is
The colours are Amazing – just love this piece so much, thanks for sharing ♥
Awesome colors and textures on your project!
Such a very cool project! Love the how you used the gold radiating circle for a focal point.
Stunning piece!love the use of blue and green sprays and the layering.
Super love your project! I need to go put Seth’s ATC mixup stencils on my wishlist!
I love what you’done here. The colors, the words, all speak to me. Thanks for showing how you did it. Can’t wait to get my hands on the new goodies.
Love this..the color, the pattern
Great texture!
I have 3 of the 3 dies you used!
The dark blue piece is absolutely beautiful! I am just getting into mixed media and don’t have all the stuff you need for them. Do you sell any of your pieces, like the dark blue with the gold. I would love to frame this and display it. Please let me know if you are interested. Thank you so much for sharing your talent!
Your work is beautiful! Would you be interested in selling that dark blue piece with the gold, it is absolutely beautiful. I have just started mixed media and don’t have all the supplies yet, but working on it. I just ordered some items from Seth Apter and taking his class on Saturday. Please let me know. Thank you.
I live your pieces. It speaks to me with the word Bohemian, the color palette and the texture! Great job!!