Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge 9 meets Documented Life Project!

It's time for another challenge at 

Craft Hoarders Anonymous!

For this challenge I combined the destashing of my stash with my love of

The Documented Life project

and created a new page in my art journal for it.

(warning this is an image heavy post, I never realized how hard it was to photograph a piece with many folds lol)

I was super excited too as this week I got to use some of my stencils from  

Stencil Girl.

                                                                 Challenge #9 Fold It

                                            Use some sort of "fun fold" on your project. 

      You can make a fun fold card, a pop-up card, an explosion box, or other type of project that makes use of folded cardstock or paper. You can share some folding techniques that are perfect for scrapbook layouts or mixed media pieces. Create a mini album with a folded binding. Fold some ribbon to make pleats. De-hoard those supplies and show us your folds....paper folds that is!

This week's challenge is sponsored by 

Stencil Girl Stencils 

StencilGirl stencils are designed by artists for artists to use in mixed-media, encaustic, fiber arts, paper crafts, and so much more! The 7 mil mylar stencils are thick enough to be durable and long lasting, yet they are thin enough to provide a seamless look in your art. Made in the USA.

and

WorldWin Papers offers extraordinary paper, card stock and envelopes for all paper crafting applications. We have teamed up with leading paper suppliers from around the world to bring some of the most colorful, elegant and sophisticated paper lines available to the craft market. All of our papers provide exceptional quality and design - perfect for scrapbooking, card making, rubber stamping and paper crafting.

Visit our website, worldwinpapers.com for more information.

 

          

Here are the 2 stencils I used from Stencil Girl to create my background...

The 9x12 Map Stencil

and the

6x6 Tribal Hand Stencil

Here is the background I created for my page.

I used a piece of 12x12 WorldWin card stock, and cut to my page size.

I'm really impressed with how sturdy their card stock is.

It took layers of paint and folds without even coming close to buckling, warping or tearing.

Using the map stencil first with some Liquitex Acrylic paint.

Because I rarely clean my stencils sometimes the paint and mists will mix giving me more color variations on the piece.

After I used various sections of the had stencil to create the red pattern meandering across the page.

That's the great thing about stencils. You never have to use as is, pick out parts and make them work for you.

I have to

                               

And here is the first photo of my page.

As I said I wound up creating a page in my Documented Life planner

where the challenge 22 was ADD A HOUSE.

Well with all my folding and background making I ended up adding way more than just 1 house.

Here is the page folded flat.

The word HOME was created with Grungebord, painted black and sewn one to the smallest flap.

Open up all the flaps to see the houses…

(Cut from book text and colored with acrylic paint)

Flip the page over and get more houses.

A few closeups of the patterns created on the background,

and some of the houses.

see the fold, NO TEARING!

SUPPLIES:

Cardstock: WorldWin Papers

Stencils: Stencil Girl

Paint: Liquitex & Golden Fluid Acrylic

Washii tape

Book text & Grungebord

Make sure to stop by each Design Team member's blog

and see how they used their stamps this week.

Amber Milone

Christy Butters---you are here!

Debbie Seyer 

Donna Idlet

Ginny Nemchak

Glenda Brooks

Gloria Stengel

Jan Marie Ennenga

Karen Zueger

Kathy Clement

Pam Bray

Tammi Bennett

    

    Then head over to the Craft Hoarders Anonymous blog and link up your folded creation for a chance to win THIS…

The winner will receive a selection of WorldWin papers in 12 x 12 and 8 1/2 x 11, three Stencil Girl stencils, and a DVD.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!