Stenciling Fun

My dad and his friend left on Saturday afternoon and I wasted no time in getting my paints and new stencils out to play with.
I love, love, LOVE LuAnn Kessi's blog when she has her play dates. I liked one of her play dates soooo much, I ordered a number of the same stencils and went to town.

Here is how I started. I sprayed on a mist of background colour just so there was not a solid white background. Notice all of the paints on both sides of the table? I used craft paint, thickened Setacolours and some shiny iridescent paints. The last group did not work at all..

 Here is the piece with a few blobs and stencil work. At this point I realized this was a lot of fabric and was sad that I didn't have any friends over to play along with me. 

Looking a bit better. My worries were that I would not have enough stencils. What I had not thought of though is that there is a million ways to use them--print out the whole stencil or just use bits of them. What was an issue was deciding where everything was going to go--and what colours to use.. Try it, you'll be surprised at how few colours you can think of when you are working on something this large.  

Before I show you the final piece, let me show you what my craft room looked like when I was done! I was tripping over everything--it was a mess. See that water pump thing on the ground? It is the best water squirter ever--you pump the top and then just push the button instead of having to keep pushing the trigger on the normal squirter bottles. I got mine at Walmark. It looks like THIS is anyone wants to see..

Stencils drying on the floor. Dog toys, weights (?!), husband's pants (??!!), finished wedding quilt that I haven't given to the couple yet and computer cables everywhere. I cannot believe how messy I can be..

Look at my table! And this is only one side of it..  

And now, without further ado, here is the final piece...

My stencilled piece 

But wait--I just have to show you LuAnn's. Remember that I told you I had purchased similar stencils? Well... I guess I got almost all of the same ones! These pieces are so similar it is unreal. LOL

Copyrighted picture--LuAnn Kessi

 I have no idea what I am going to do with piece. Does anyone have any suggestions?? I used a thick cotton fabric.