This is fun - do more of using up the odd things we have in the art supply stash. I'm going to need to live to age 130 to use all my supplies, thanks to a few RU-vid enablers - ahem, not naming names. ♥
Hi Lindsay, Just got through Helene and now prepping for Milton (I live in a suburb of Tampa), and I took a mental health break to watch your video instead of watching hurricane updates. I appreciate the consistency and reliability of your YT videos...they provide a sense of comfort in this crazy world. Anyway, great tip about the latex caulk. Thank you!
Yes please post your cards! Great play session and thank you!🎉👍🏾💙🙏🏾 I tend to flip my stencil over and get another reverse image/negative space of the stencil… so much fun doing this as not to waste my paints.🎉
Wow. I don’t have any scene stencils. They really are lovely. My vote - Don’t throw them out. Thanks for the video. Your card making videos are always fun to craft along to. Hope this is turning out to be a better week for you.
Hi Lindsay, I use a plastic dish bin with an inch or two of water to clean my stencils and embossing folders. I plop em in and let them soak a few moments til I reach a good point that I can stop and clean them. Stopping to clean right away runninf to the kitchen can mess with my creative flow. I know- paper towels for watercolors or Lindy's Stamp Gang Magicals are so pretty. Ink on scrap paper under a project is real pretty sometimes too. I enjoy when you turn the camera on and forget it while you're having fun. I hope you do it more often. Thanks for sharing this sesh. I enjoy seeing you use older supplies. You seem more free with this kind of thing than when you're testing new products or teaching a technique; though I enjoy your tutorials a lot, it's great to see you do something just because it's fun.
@@susinok best thing, isn't it? I didn't realize how fast some mediums can dry on a stencil (never seem to dry that fast on our projects; that always takss ages lol), until I ruined part of one because a paste dried superfast. I didn't leave the stencil for a long time...maybe 5 minutes while I was finishing up that part on the project before I went to clean my stencil. It took around 2 hours for that same paste to dry on my project though. 🙄 I didn't use huge globs of it either.
I don't have any of these and I CERTAINLY don't need to buy anything else 😂, but I really enjoyed watching your thought process and use of techniques and mediums. Inspiring!
I love your new videos going back to Lindsay 1.0....I enjoy your painting videos but these videos really spark joy for me and yes, I would love to see the cards you'll make with these images.. It's only paper, haha
All the stencil pictures you did are interesting and fun, but my favorite was yours also! I should use my stencils more often! Thanks for sharing all your great ideas!👏🤗
Of course I want to see cards made from the stencils. I buy the caulk in a tube from Dollar Tree and it does make good texture paste. It works in those little silicone molds that Modge Podge came out with a few yrs ago that I thought I had to have. Makes cute light weight embellishments for cards. Such a cool video! You rocked it!!❤
I’m loving all of the trial and error and the fun in your creating. You’re such an inspiration for me as you explain to us to use our stuff and to just try it out to know if it’s for us. Yes please on making some cards with these backgrounds. It’ll be fun to see what you’re coming up with. Oh I have caulking and grout from our kitchen Reno!
I also hate having to get up and clean things while I’m working, so much so that sometimes I just don’t bother creating because of it. It stinks! 😭 Also YES I want to see any cardmaking you do with these!! I love your cardmaking videos!! They inspire me to collage.
Well my vote is keep them all! It's amazing how gorgeous they all were. I don't make large cards, I know a lot of crafters like a 5x7 card size. And I would love to see how you would use these in making cards. :)
I bought quite a few of those Cosmic Shimmer jars, I have some of the Glitter Kiss and the Matt Chalk Polish and the Lustre which is the one you used I think. I bought it on clearance from the store Vaessen Creative in Europe and they were like RIDICULOUSLY cheap. I think they were getting rid of them because, yes they are a great product but a royal pain to stash in your craftroom. I have a whole cupboard dedicated to these while the Inkagolds take up so much less space in a little box. I do like them, and they are very pretty but as you said its a pain to clean up the sponges and I dont like how you cant pile them up and I am short of space. So will not be buying more when I finish them. But if you have them, do use them because they are very pretty as I said, the glitter ones are lovely for Xmas.
Hullo Lindsay, I do admire how you are so excited to use all of your supplies! You combine and put things to use that simply don’t occur to most people, well done! I have had quite a few studio spaces in my Art career, the one thing they ALL MUST HAVE is a sink with a good water supply! I did try one “loft space” because it was just so cheap and had floor to ceiling windows along one “wall” but no water outside of the bathroom. I lasted a year and ONLY because that was the length of the lease! Thank you for sharing your stencil review with us. I am wondering if you have decided that they are keepers because they did create some lovely art ideas or perhaps sparks for future ideas? Cards? Please feel free to show off any results you create. I am glad to watch you creating, well just about anything, but you know that I don’t spend much time on cards. Thank you for sharing and I do look forward to seeing your next video. 🥳
Maybe put a double stack of five gallon buckets in your basement. One with holes drilled through the bottom. Fill with water. When you need to clean something the bucket can function as a sink while the pigments fall to the bottom bucket. Functioning like an oil painters cleaner can. Also, just an idea; for survival prep (I love in tornado alley on the USA's largest earthquake fault, so we prepare year round for weather disasters so we don't end up like NC). Anyway, there is a portable camp sink. They come in all sizes. It's an actual sink in a sturdy hard plastic box. You put a hose in a water bottle, another in a catch basin bottle, squeeze the bulb to build air pressure, turn on sink to run water as needed. A good pump on the bulb can last a week or more. Refill and fill as needed. We have a sun room that runs the length of the house. I have this set up in the sun room. When not in use it folds up like a suitcase. I painted the outside to look like an old antique leather and wood steam trunk. That's what it looks like. A steam trunk sitting on a side table until needed. Then lift tree lid and bam, ready to use kitchen sink. Most things the water in the grey tank (bucket under the table, I drilled a hole to hide tubes and kuligen water bottles) most times the bad water evaporates meaning I have nothing to toss. I use a five gallon primo water bottle to feed the sink. Easy peezy pudding pie. Edit: you could also do a primo water bottle with a battery spout set on the floor over a packing bin. Homemade sink for less than $20.
Thank you for your yt channel I’ve been taking a yt break looking after my dad who has been sick in the hospital he’s home now thankfully and I’m getting back my art and craft projects I like every video you make thanks again Lindsay 🙂👍🙂Gracie shack
I would love to see you have a card video from these. I love stencils. I had some in a 12x12 photo album, and others in an old zippered 3 ring binder. Two of the best things I did were 1) realizing that I most likely don't need anymore stencils and 2)eliminated ones I didn't care for. Doing the elimination let me combine them all into the 12x12 photo album. It is easy to find the "perfect " stencil for the project at hand.
Linsay! Now we need to know where we can get these stencils! They were in your stash, and you said it had been a while but do you know where we could get something similar to what you are showing? The cityscapes are wicked cool! Thanks for all you do!
I feel stupid giving you of all people advice, but here we go: 1. For the Distress Sprays, try wiping the nozzle AFTER use, before you cap it. That should take care of the clogging. 2. The Polishes: a) most people find the flat foam Distress daubers (usually used for creating ink blends) work better than the included applicator. You’ll want to dedicate one for each polish. Many say they don’t have to clean them, either. b) To stop them from drying out, cover the opening with a small square of Press'n Seal wrap. Use it for anything that needs to stay moist. Hope this helps!
I had a tiny overpriced apartment in town ..no room for my extensive art supply collection...but I got engaged, moved to a beautiful home with a huge art studio with a picture window, and I feel guilty because it's disorganized, and I don't enjoy cleaning my creative space...I make big messes for months and clean everything when it gets out of control..I'm fortunate, and I often feel guilty for not being more meticulous. However, I don't waste to many supplies, or ruin brushes, but I often avoid supplies that will rein a brush or applicator...ugh
If that gold stuff with the sponge topper is like a wax, I don’t think you have to wash the sponges. I’ll keep watching and may comment more. Ok almost finished. I could watch this all day long. Awesome fun session
I could see using the stencils as a background themselves and then putting writing over them. Like for Holiday/B Day cards, something where you can write large and get the message across. Stencils are those things that I have A LOT of because they are inexpensive (at least the ones I get, I refuse to buy any that are expensive just because of the name attached) and are for a very specific purpose. Do I use them every day? Of course not, but that doesn't mean they need to go in the donation pile. If you like the stencil and can see yourself using it even if that might be only once a year, then keep it! It's not like an expensive watercolor paper, or every color of every paint that if you only use it once a year makes it not worth buying, you know?
I've also decided not to buy any more sprays because as you said the juice is not worth the squeeze. I would love to see cards that you make with these.
I just love the cosmic polish which comes in all types of variations. As for the sponges I don't think they work that well nd are a pain to clean so I use make up sponges or more often my fingers.
