Making Mud With Stencil Butter

 

The Crafter's Workshop recently released a new product called Stencil Butter. They describe it as a soft modeling paste, I would describe it as a softer version of texture paste. And I guess they both do the same thing. I ordered six bottles of the stencil butter in the prettiest colors and got right to work playing with them. 

I had this awesome steampunk stencil I wanted to do something with, so I took a piece of Harmony cold pressed paper from Hahnemühle and placed it on my desktop. Then placed the stencil and taped the whole thing to the desk. I did not want to take the chance of my stencil moving and messing my print up as I worked. 

The next step was to choose a color to use. Hmmm. I had pink, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. No rust colors for steampunk. I already knew that mixing purple and yellow usually makes mud and mud is very similar to rust. Hahahahaha! Welcome to Alice's World. Hahahahaha! So I took the Orchid and Gamboge, grabbed a palette knife and went to work. 

This Stencil Butter is so easy to use you are going to want to go buy a couple. I'll put a link at the bottom of the post for you. You're welcome. I started with the yellow/gamboge. Working with the flat underside of my palette knife I just scraped the color across the stencil - leaving some areas open. Literally that easy. I tried to keep the butter the same height as the stencil by scraping the flat side of the knife along the stencil. I want to make this stuff last as long as possible. And that is all I did for the first step. 

I took the Orchid and filled in those open areas and tried to lightly coat most of the yellow. I left some of the middle area mostly yellow, but notice where the two colors blend they give more of a rust color. Some of that blending came from me scraping the knife, trying to level the surface. 

I carefully removed the tape and lifted the stencil away. It is important to either go wash your stencil off or put it in a pan of water at this stage. You don't want the stencil butter to harden and dry on the stencil. Then I just sat this to the side away from Aurora and let it dry overnight. Actually it doesn't take long to dry - but it was almost time for The Voice. 

To get started with cleaning the stencil, I placed it on a piece of card stock with the color facing up and used a baby wipe to clean the surface off. And that pushed all this color onto the piece of card stock, making a pretty nifty piece to use in my daily journals. And because there really isn't a 'layer' of stencil butter like you have with the stencil - this is mostly flat on the page. 

But what to do with this? Most things I am making now are going straight into my daily journal, which I am combining with The 100 Day Project. I had these orange and teal steampunk strips I made awhile back with my gel printing plate from Gelli Arts and thought the pieces would go together well. The tangle for one of the days was a steampunk one so I just glued it all onto the page. Hahahaha! Want to see that stencil butter stuff up close?

Isn't it gorgeous? Look at all that shimmer and glimmer! Hard to get a photo of but this one is decent. Hahahaha! So much fun! 

So, do I have your interest peaked for some stencil butter? It comes in ten colors currently. And none of them are boring. I'll leave you some links under this photo.

Stencil Butter can be purchased here. 

Harmony watercolor papers can be purchased here.