Stenciled Valentines

To make cards for Valentine's Day I started with a stencil that I cut out of wax paper.

Sheets of foam imprinted with patterns acted as stamps. I used a range of pinks, reds and orange ink pads.

I overlapped patterns to make the designs denser.

Very simple and fun printmaking project!

Printing with Paper Doilies

This is a simple process of using doilies as stencils. I took a large sheet of white drawing paper and placed the doily on top of the paper. I cut up a kitchen sponge and used that to dab the acrylic paint directly onto the doilies so that the lace patterns would be captured. As you can see, I soaked through several doilies as I kept layering prints on top of one another. After it dried I cut my sheet of paper into rectangles and mounted the prints on notecards.