Slimline Stencils Product Review

Stencils are such a versatile craft supply, I always make sure I have a handful in my stash! These slimline stencils from the Craft Gossip store are a happy addition to my stencil stash! The designs are so nice, plus they’re sturdy and easy to clean.

If you do journaling or even card making, these stencils would be a great way to add a bit of pattern to a design. But you can also use them with fabric!

Lately I’ve been playing with monoprinting using a gel plate. So when I got these stencils, that’s the first thing that came to mind. While I usually do my printing on paper, I thought it would be fun to try printing on fabric.

These are the prints I made with my gel plate and the slimline stencils.

I printed on to plain canvas fabric using acrylic paint and a bit of fabric medium on my gel plate. I love how the designs work together when you use a similar color palette for the different prints!

And what did I do with these bits of printed fabric? I made them into pencil pouches! I used different prints for the front/back of the pouches. Here are the fronts:

And the backs:

And I’ve still got 2 more pieces of printed fabric left over for another project!

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I am just smitten with this felt gingerbread house bag. This would make such a sweet special Christmas accessory for a kid. It’s a free pattern at Benzie Design, designed by Gracie from Hello Gracie Makes. It’s packed with adorable gingerbread house details, like swirls and stripes and scallops adoring the doors and windows.

And while all those details might seem like this would be a complicated pattern, it’s actually not. The bag itself is made from felt, which makes finishes edges unnecessary. (All of those scalloped edges are just cut from felt, no edge finishing required.) The strap is super simple, made from rope with knotted ends. And all those details are made with some basic hand embroidery stitches. Sparkle felt makes it extra cute.

The striped scallop roof is actually the top flap of the bag. A magnetic snap makes it a secure closure. The rope straps are attached through felt loops at the side of the bag.

They rate this project as an intermediate level, and it should take about 6 hours to make start to finish. That’s doable for a Saturday project or a couple of evenings. Full color photos step you through the entire process.

The project includes a shopping list for all of your supplies. They’ve got a shop so you can order all of them from Benzie if you like and get exactly the supplies used in the project. I noticed it includes a pair of scallop shears, which makes cutting all the scalloped edges for the roof and around the door a breeze.

Finished dimensions of the little felt gingerbread bag are approximately 6 ½” wide x 7 ½” tall. That’s the perfect size to hold a small book, a small toy, or a notepad and some cute pens.

Go to Benzie Design to get the tutorial and free pattern for the felt gingerbread house bag.

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