Yay!  I had my second month as a StencilGirl Voices artist using the Stencil Club December set of stencils.  The Fancy Houses stencil set was designed by Valerie Sjodin and is comprised of the following stencils:

I immediately figured out that they were designed to be interchangeable and to work together like a big block set.  The lamp post and the stars along with the Christmas Season that is upon us inspired me to do a more seasonal themed design.  I used my Strathmore Mixed Media Journal (8″x10″) which contained a set of pages that had already been covered with Distress Oxide inks from a previous play day.

I then decided to add the stencil design with a Stabilo All water soluble pencil.  I liked the imperfection of the lines when I went over them all with a brush and water.  I didn’t trace out every detail on all of the houses and I combined different pieces of the different stencils to create my own designs.  The large stencil is 9″x12″ and my  journal was only 8″x10″ so I had to be a little creative to get it all to fit within the space that I had.

 After getting the outlines the way I wanted them, I then started adding the snow and the night sky.

From there, I added all of the rest of the details to the buildings.  All of the details added were created with acrylic paint and colored pencils.  I left some of the original orangey yellow highlights from the original background to shine through the windows.  The stars were highlighted with some glitter paint just to add a little glamor to the evening.  The words were added with a paint brush and white paint or dark blue-black paint.

I really like these little houses and all of the little textures that are included in parts of the designs.  I know I will be using them again because they are so versatile and, honestly, because they are too cute not to!