Super cool new – Mid Mod Stencils

I designed a whole bunch of stencils with a mid century modern feel – Mid Mod stencils, to co-ordinate with the mid Mod city stamps. You can see all of the new stencils already, here on the store. It was a project I sort of invented to occupy myself while waiting for samples of the stamps, I intended to make maybe one or two stencils – stencils are something I pretty much associated with lettering in tech drawing class in school, but I’ve been missing out!

Not anymore, I ended up with a bakers dozen single design Mid Mod stencils, as I’m calling them, plus a layering set of 6 stencils that will get their own introduction hopefully tomorrow. I’m taking the opportunity to showcase them here as part of my release sample posts because they were very much designed to complement the new stamp sets.

What’s terrific about stencils, particularly these Mid Mod Stencils is the possibilities for all-over patterns. I love a good pattern. The card at the top of this post was created with the Mid Century Modern geometric stencil – Quad Star, here it is:

I popped the stencil down on some white cardstock and secured it with some washi tapes. Then I brushed on some Magenta, orange, green and cyan inks. The stencils are thin mylar and I find that the soft brushes give an excellent crisp edge.

Next I lifted the stencil and turned it 180 degrees, and then placed it back on the card, this time with the stars in the vacant white spaces.

I brushed on the same colours as before, but this time i was guided by the ink already on the stencil on where to brush the orange, magenta etc. When I lifted the stencil I had a very pleasing mixture of coloured stars nicely distributed across the card. I paired this with a simple sentiment from the Mid Mod city set, releasing soon!

Here are some of the stencils I have designed. These stencils are This stencil is A5 size – which is 5.8 by 8.3 inches in size (148 by 210 mm) and are made from Mylar plastic. Our stencils are semi opaque and you can see through them to position them exactly where you want. The are easily cleaned with soapy water and are perfect for creating backgrounds and focal points. 

Here are some patterns I’ve had fun creating with some of the stencils. I used an almost dry, quite scratchy brush for these to get a retro textured feel to the patterns.

A few more cards I made with the Mid Mod stencils, hope you feel inspired! I’ll be posting samples all week, feel free to pop back tomorrow for some more inspiration! Ta for popping in this evening!