GAMECHANGER STENCIL SWATCHES! make it & your imagination for future artworks will improve instantly 

This is a very smart idea! I am very sick in bed with COVID, almost no energy, but still in the middle of your video, I got up to get some watercolor paper and my Tim Holtz stencils, and I’m already cutting the tags. This happens to me a lot with your videos. I find you so inspiring! 💜💜💜

Great video! If you put lotion on your hands first the ink will wash off a lot easier. Just a tip I learned.

How are we not calling you Luise Stenzl after this masterpiece?

I LOVE having swatches to help me decide what supplies to use. I haven't swatched my stencils, because I haven't decided on a format I like. This is definitely something to consider. Also. I have SO many stencils that swatching them would be a huge project

GREAT IDEA! So creative! You’re right such a treasure! 🤩🫶🏼

LUISE, this is a great system for storing AND visualizing some of the options you have in combining your various mediums! AND the swatch cards are themselves very decorative! I love how you can also see the color changes of the same oxyde ink depending on substrate - with the color you used (ground expresso) the variation is very apparent and big (from dark brown to goldish brown to a purple grey!!). One thought I had is to try scanning and printing (onto watercolor paper) the stenciled tags, as a base layer ? Of course, doing this with each color we own is a massive / large project!! But in the end it would lead us - it seems to me - to using the mediums more effectively since we can visualize and anticipate results more accurately, therefore reducing waste! It may also make it easier to - Actually Use - colors we don't use so often because we are not as familiar with their results on different substrates ! What you are creating there with these swatches in my view is an actual commercial product in itself!! I know of books dedicated to swatches (usually for color mixes with formulas or 'recipes') to achieve the desired results!! In any case, I DO agree that these are a source of inspiration!!! Brilliant work as usual!!

Hi Luise: You have a brilliant mind! Really love your thinking! Your explanations and demonstrations make so much sense. BTW, you have really cool stencils. Thank you for sharing your time and creativity. 💜😎🇺🇸

LUISE!!!!😲😲😲 You have opened up the creative floodgates!! What an amazing tool to have in our crafty lives! I'm so inspired to do something like this.

This. Is. BRILLIANT. STELLAR. VERSATILE. ARTFUL. ENGAGING. CREATIVE. INVALUABLE. And on and on and......... wow and wow again!!!!! Game changing........ thank you as ever!!!!!! ✴️✴️✴️🦋✴️

Wonderful idea! The benefit of creating personal swatches based on how you use your mediums and products so you can really see what you can create before committing is so nice 🤩 I don't know how many times I struggle to reproduce effects I see others do. This technique will allow one to embrace their personal style in a really lovely way. It also takes away some of the fear of "ruining" precious supplies while creating a beautiful, functional, tactile, personal piece of one's creative self. TFS Luise 🥰🥰

I love the idea of swatching your stencils. It definitely helps to see the differences in technique. I find it fascinating that you are so fluent in English, but sometimes have a bit of trouble finding the correct English word. When you dropped a German word I got tickled. ❤😂

What a brilliant idea. I wonder why none of us have created these simple yet very complex swatches. There is so much creative knowledge in each one of these tags and I’m itching to make my own set now. Thanks Luise. 🤗🇨🇦🤗 Liz

Wow that was a lot of work … but the pay off is incredible. Yes it is a TREASURE. Thanks for sharing

Brilliant Louisa. The colour changes in the ink are surprising and definitely inspiring. You could make a stencil master board as well and cut it up for even more surprises.

Wow. I admire your perseversnce, creativity, and attention to detail. These swatches will serve you well. Thanks for the inspiration.

Brilliant Luise,thank you

Miss Luise... Thx 🙏 for sharing... Great idea's & inspiring... Giggles as well... You're a wondrous Soul & inspired by the love of beauty... BTW... I use those same rings to store & organize my Stencils... Only mine are blk.... 💝🤙📌🎶... Sincerely sincere... Miss Judith 🌹

Luise, Outstanding! TYFS, Rose

What a great idea! It may take time to create the swatches, but having a pre made swatch, will save time.

These tags are works of art in themselves! A brilliant idea Luise!

I love how this idea gave light to more and how excited you got. I hope you have a delightful day. Love&hugs

This is absolutely brilliant,Luise. I can hear the excitement in your voice,it’s for sure a game changer. I’m new to your channel, I’m binge watching every video….

Such a fantastic idea!!! 😍💖Thank you, Luise!! 😁

Absolutely brilliant! I just made a small swatch ring for all my circle punches & eyelet sizes. I cut out the circle sizes on one swatch & attached the cut circles on another swatch with painters tape, noting details like size & color of punch corresponding to each cutout, correct cropodile settings for each eyelet, etc. It hangs next to my desk & it's been an absolute game changer. I am now eager to create stencil & stamp swatches like yours... it will be an incredible relevant tool during the creative process. Thank you so much for sharing 😊

Brilliant Luise, a wealth of information on each tag! Perfect for those times that we don’t feel inspired, just take out the ring and look at your swatches, boom, inspiration! 💕🇨🇦

Luise, I like your stained fingers-they attest to the fact that you are an artist.

This is so brilliant and your excitement about this idea is totally spilling over. All the beautiful things that happened that you couldn't even foresee. I am glad in a way I only so far have 2 Tim Holtz stencils and a few others I absolutely now make some swatches. They look so gorgeous and inspirational. Thank you for sharing this brilliant idea!🥰

I don't have all these products, but just making stencil swatches with the few I have is a great idea. Have TONS of stencils so this will be a great tool for using them more. Thanks so much!

wow! Luise, what a great idea, for so many reasons. This is one of those project ideas that ends up being so much more than the sum of its parts. Genius! Thank you for sharing. You are right. This is, indeed, a game changer x

Luise, you’re a genius in the art world, and now you’ve just bumped it up to another level with such an amazing idea! Now I won’t waste any medium or money on my projects, and I love that idea because a lot of them are really expensive. I can look at my swatches and know what I want to do or not to do with a die cut, fussy cut or other medium. Thanks so much dear! 💕💕💕

Oh I’m blown away by this video. Truly truly inspired. My mind is buzzing!

I absolutely adore how excited you get!!❤

Love this idea. I am just coming to the realization that swatching is a very inspirational task.

I think it would be a great technique for a master board

I just found this series by you and I am so grateful for your videos. I am encouraged to create my own swatches to see how my tools can be use with my inks and mediums.

I'm sure even Tim would think these swatches are the "Cherry on the Top" That's how we say it in America, but I think I like your way better. 🍒 🤩

What a genius you are, Luise! Thank you for the idea!

What a clever idea!!! I can see how invaluable this would be when working on a project. TYFS

i'm in love with your idea Luise! Just simply stunning and creative. You inspired me to create my own stencil swatch. Thank you!

Thank you sooo much for sharing this! I LOVE your Joy & Enthusiasm for the creative process and love the opportunity to feel it right along with you. 💞

I swatch my watercolors all the time, but it never occurred to me to do it with my Distress Oxide ink pads and texture mediums! This makes sooo music SENSE! Than you for sharing such a useful idea!

Great idea Luise and it's fun to get out all of the stencils you have and play with them!

What a great idea to see what the stencils look like and also keep it all organized. Love your ideas.

Hi Luise. I am in love with the thiks you are doing. You are amaizng and extreamly creative. I found your chanel resently and my comments are on videos which you made ages ago. I just cant stop wathcing your videos. Thank you! You not only are genius but very inspiring.❤

What a super practical idea! It is sheer genius! Thanks for sharing.

Brilliant! Useful, practical, and unique! Great outside of the box thinking, Luise! TFS the inspiration!

I so admire the discipline and precision with which these were executed! This is like the base collection that can be enlarged later on adding more colors/techniques/materials to other cards and placing them on the ring next to what is already there! Love it!

What a great idea thanks for sharing it with us 😊

GREAT IDEA!!! I think this would be a great thing to do when we need inspiration too! Thx for video. Austin,TX USA

Wow! I can see why you called it a game changer. What a great idea! Tfs.

I love your enthusiasm! You have made new discoveries today. Thank you.

So fun. An amazing idea. Love your energy. It always lifts me up and makes me smile. Thank you for sharing ❤️

Hello Luise, what an awesome idea this is, just fabulous how they are at your fingertips with how they look. TFS

Genius! You are so creative and inspiring. Thank you. Hugs and blessings, 🤗❤️🇨🇦

That is so smart!!! What a great idea!! Game changer, is right!!!

What a fabulous idea! I can see myself doing this soon. Thank you!!

I am incredibly excited about this idea. I hope to implement it right away as I find that I am not using any of my stencils very often. Like you stated early in your video, I get very overwhelmed when I pull them out. My mind goes all over the place with ideas and I can’t seem to settle on one. I feel certain this will help me. Thank you so much for sharing the idea! God bless you!

Great project and I love your excitement! You help me see details I would otherwise overlook.

Super idea with gorgeous results! I love your enthusiasm! It’s inspiring! Would love to see some projects where you use these ideas as you discovered making these tag swatches. TYFS! ❤️🦋💜

I do love you bucketfuls, your little excited voice xx

This is a fantastic idea Luise, so useful. My stencils are in a box and I can never find the one I want and then it is a disappointment when it is used so this system is something I would like to put into place. Thanks for sharing your wonderful insight with us all. Cheers from Australia.

the combinations of techniques are awesome!! what a great reference. Thank you for sharing.

What a great idea!! Enjoyed to hear how your hard work made you so happy!! Awesome job 😊

Hello Luise. I think this is a great idea! Especially using different mediums on the sample tag. Have a wonderful day 😊

Love these swatches! What a fun way to see their full potential

Brilliant!! Thank you!!

In English. "Here's my cherry on top!" Love the Sherry on the cream!

This is such a wonderful idea, to have swatches like this will be so so helpful. Will have to set aside so time to do this. Thank you thank you.

Brilliant, as always. You’re such an inspiration.

This is great!!!

What cool awesome idea Luise. I really like being able to see the difference between the different mediums. Your so Smart🤓🙃😁

That’s an awesome idea luise I will definitely try to make that too in the future My only pb is that I have stencils in so many sizes they are not all the same brand than you 😂

Very genius !.....love this projects!.... thanks for sharing ......😻

I love this project Luise. Thank you for sharing. 😘

Incredible! They are gorgeous! And this was just an art class :-)

I like this idea, I’ve not purchased some of these stencils as I couldn’t visualize how I would use them. I’ll need to save this video for future reference. ❤❤

brilliant idea! thanks so much for sharing your great ideas with us all!

Brilliant! I have not seen anyone do these swatches with all of the mediums on one tag/base. I can totally see how this would be a game changer. I have so many Tim Holtz stencils that I’m afraid it would take me a month to make the swatches. I like the idea of preparing the tags ahead of time. I am looking forward to seeing how you incorporate your swatches in the actual creating process. You are amazing! (still praying…) Hugs from KY.

I saw you using these swatches the other day and was curious. Thank you for sharing this with your peeps.

Hi Luise what an incredible and inspiring idea ! thank you for sharing ! I will give it a try

What a great idea!! Building off that, it would be so helpful for me do only ink on all of my stencils, which would help me remember all the ones I have. I sometimes totally forget about stenciling or the stencils I have. Thank you for the great ideas!!!

Love this idea ... luise, tysm for sharing this, absolutely brilliant!

Such a cool idea! Personally, I would have to write the technique I used in the margin otherwise I would totally forget. I’m doing this with mine!

This is a great idea. 🎉❤Thank you for sharing. You always inspire me.

Super idea with stunning results!

This a phenomenal idea. You are such an inspiration 😍

Yeah, it takes the way the brain of a true artist works to come up with such fantastic ideas!!!👏❤

Great idea!!!! You are so right this so useful and it’s never a waste of products if you gain so much knowledge. I was thinking the same thing I need more stencils. Now to come up with a way for those stencils that aren’t so easily stored.

Really super . I will have to get to work on one. Thanks. I loved your sherry on the cream translation. In English we see that it is like the icing on the cake.

What a great idea! I will Definetly be trying this

Brilliant! Thank you for sharing your insights!

I’m visual so this is brilliant!

Thank you for your wonderful inspiration!

Gonna have to make some of these because they turned out so cool

This is amazing. Just love this idea.

Luise, this is a fabulous contribution to my understanding of how all this works. What a great idea. Thank you. Just subbed you cause I’m sure there’s a lot more!

Oh ! Genius! Thank you .

So creative, thank you for sharing.

Great visualization 👍🇺🇸

Yes,this is a great idea