 So we are here at the art table with the four faces journal. So if you're new to this journal and you're new to this little series, then I will link the playlist in the description below. And I started working in this little notebook when I started developing these stencils of faces. Now they come in, I cut mine apart. Hang on one second. For those that don't know, I have a line of stencils and stamps that I've designed and have manufactured for me that I sell in my Etsy shop. The stencil line has, I've kind of lost track, it's over 90 stencils. It might be close to just over 100 at the moment. This is four faces, one. And this is the first one I did as a quick way to just kind of get a face or the basics of a face onto your journal pages and into your work. There are some days I don't want to be bothered to draw a face. I want to just paint and stencil and I don't want to do any drawing. I do get in moods like that. There are some of you I know that are intimidated to draw faces. So I created this stencil and then later on I thought let's do one more and they come like this. So here's another one. Fun fact, two of these faces are my face and two of these faces are my husband's. So you have sort of a three quarter and a profile and they were made this way so you can cut them apart. You can put them in your art journaling and to go bags, use them in your bullet journals, different things like that. You can cut them apart. You can use them as they are in a whole sheet or you can cut them apart like I've done here. I like to have little small stencils like this that I can carry with me when I'm traveling. Not that I'm doing a lot of that right now. It also is just nice sometimes when you're looking at working in a smaller journal to have this to stencil with and not have to contend with this to stencil with. So anyway, so four faces stencils and we started using them in this journal. I'll do a quick clip through different techniques, different ways of using them, creating different faces. They've all been a lot of fun. I do think that one might be my favorite. So I thought we would do another one, but I thought we would do another one and do it a little bit different way. So I've got a little piece of muzzle in here. Now if you've been following me on social media, you know, I've been doing a lot of stitching lately. That will give you a clue. So let me pick one of my faces, maybe that one, maybe that one. Okay, so I'm going to include this video into the slow stitching playlist for you all. If you want to, you're not interested in painting or stenciling, or maybe you have some stencils left over from trying that, or you do paint, but you want to know how and your art journal and you want to know how to incorporate some of that in your stitching. So you can do this with your stencils. Now, I will admit to you, I've got four of these out because a couple of these are really old. I think this is a really old one. And I don't know which ones still work and which ones don't. But these are fabric marking pens and they go on blue and then when you get it wet, they disappear. This kind of ink is perfect for what we're going to do. And because if you don't quite get on the line, it doesn't matter. You just get it wet when you're done and it's all going to go away. So I'm going to grab one of these. Hopefully this one works, but we'll see. I'm going to hold my stencil down and I am going to color in the shapes onto the fabric with the fabric marking pen. You, of course, could use a fabric marking pen again to just draw on the fabric first. But maybe you have a particular stencil design like one of these faces or something else that you just love and you want to put that onto your fabric. Now you could do this with a permanent marking pen and then be done with it, but that's not what we're going to do. So there you go. Now I have my face on the fabric and as long as I don't get it wet, it's fairly stable. Okay, now I don't normally do my stitching with an embroidery hoop, but in this case, I think I'm going to. I'm going to center that over that part and then we're going to put our hoop on, pull things taut and center your image and then tighten it down. Oops, that's pretty good, I think. So now we're going to get a needle and thread and we're going to stitch our face on. Now again, if you are not interested in doing the four faces stitched at all, you don't have to. You could definitely do this by drawing through the stencil. You could paint through the stencil on the fabric. Do what you're comfortable with. I have this like collection, like leftover bits of embroidery thread from different stitching projects. So I'm going to grab a color that I think might be enough of that one color to do this with. Maybe this green. You know, I should put my reading glasses on. They're on the top of my head after all. I'm going to separate that floss. This one is all six strands of this is DMC embroidery floss. I'm going to separate it into at least three. Those up there. Right in my needle. Maybe someday. There we go. Tie a knot in the end. And I'm going to go up from the back. I'm going to start right here. Actually, I'll take that back. I'm going to start up here. I'm going to go up from the back. I'm going to take a small stitch somewhere between an eighth of an inch and a quarter of an inch. Then I'm going to come up about equal distance away from where I ended that one. Go back in where I ended that one. That's called the back stitch. Let me see if I can zoom in for you all so you can see a little better. There we go. Now, again, if you are a painter or a drawer, a collage artist, you could draw this onto different kinds of fabric and then cut out the little pieces and collage her face onto the journal page. You could, of course, draw onto the fabric. You could do it on paper. You could sew on paper. There's just so many different ways. I want you all to think about what are the different ways you can use your stencils and your rubber stamps for that matter in your art. So I'm going to continue to follow the lines around her face and her neck, her eyebrows, her lips. And I'm going to get her face all stitched. I did some French knots for the eyes. These are called bouillon stitch. I do have some other videos in the slow stitch playlist that show kind of how to do these. I'm no expert people. I'm very rusty with my embroidery, but there are some really great channels out there who show very detailed instructions on how to do all different kinds of embroidery stitches, including these. And I will link them for you in the description below. We're at the iron because we're going to get rid of the ink now. So I am and she's wrinkly anyways, so. All right, so the iron is warm and I've got a spray bottle of water. This is the one I use in the art room, obviously, in case all the paint to give you a clue. All I'm going to do is spray her with water, front and back. You also noticed in the speed through video, if I didn't edit it out that I did not. My backs are always messy, very stages of messiness. There I've never been one with a real neat embroidery backs. But I didn't tie off all the threads as I was stitching because for me it's too hard to do it in the hoop. That hoop is actually really small, so I just take it off and then I do it. Okay, so all the ink is gone now. So I'm going to dry her with iron, flatten her out, and then we can put her on a journal page. Because who says fabric has to be on fabric? They lied to you if they said that. And yes, my ironing board is very stained because I do this kind of thing to it all the time, so there's all kind of water spots on it. So there she is, looking all cute with her bullion hair. How cute is she? So she would be real cute to add to a slow stitch project any day. I might have to make another one of her. She might have to be something that I do. But I really want to add her to our Four Faces notebook, so I'm going to do that next. I'm going to unplug the iron and let's go to the other table. Okay, so I've got my little folder of scraps of paper. Something. Lane. Or plain-ish. Okay, so the first thing we're going to do is cut off the excess fabric. I'm going to save that because she turned out so cute. I'm thinking I'm going to want to do more. I do make little machine and hand embroidered little patches every now and then. And then I save them and I use them in other work. Our journal pages, slow stitching projects. Sometimes I sell them in my Etsy store. I'm going to distress the edges like the rest of the edges so it doesn't look freshly cut. So I'm going to pull some threads out. Okay. Then I'm going to put this, I think like that. What else do we have in here? So I have these cards I've been using as I've been stitching. I've been using up some vintage buttons I have in my collection. And I find that the old cards, the buttons were attached to very interesting. So I don't save all of them, but I do save some of them. I think I want to use those on there. And then I'm going to start there. So I'm going to do this. Staples. I love my staples. I like that little bit of metal in my projects. And then I think I want to add some washi tape. Okay. Hang on. Let me get some. Okay. I think I want to use this one, which has some sayings on it and it is muted colors. It says so much fun. Life is good and a beautiful day. So I think we're going to put some of this on the background. We're not going to have it be straight. Just have it like peeking through. We need a couple more. Get that staple down. More staples. This is the Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher for those that don't know. That's good. And then we need some words because you know, I like my words. I want to go back to that tag for my words. Like even if I just cut the tag, there's something about this color of paper. I don't know, but I think it's too dark. So this is my process back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. I have a paler tag that's way too big, but I could cut it apart. It's the right color, though. Here's my pen. Nice big, bold black pen. And I want to put some staples. Okay. I need some glue. I'm going to use some Aileen's Tacky Glue for the back of that. And right here where there's no staples, we'll put some back there. Okay, there we go. So that's one way, unique way to use the Four Faces Stencil to use it, period, and to use it in your journal. Also a way to use your slow stitching with your journaling in a new, unique and different way. And you can make lots of these little embellishments, faces, or these were made with my rubber stamps. And you can use them, of course, in fabric projects, but you can also use them on your journal pages. So I encourage you to go out there and experiment. So if you want your own Four Faces Stencil, you can get them using the Etsy Shop link in the description below. I have a lot of stencils, so go ahead and browse around and take your time. If you want them naked, put a note in your order, and I will refund you $1 for every stencil that you order for ordering it naked, which means without packaging. It doesn't mean what you think it is. It just means without packaging. So anyway, I hope that you have found with this that it gives you some ideas, that it inspires you. 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