Stencils, fabric, and coffee on Tea Tuesday

Recently I applied for Simply Spray Fabric Paint in exchange for a tutorial. I received these, about the same time I found a new box of ink jet labels lurking in my office supplies. I had plenty of time to play yesterday, since I was without power for somewhere between six and eight hours.

With so much "unplugged" time on my hands, I decided to practice using the Simply Spray before I wrote the tutorial. The ink jet labels have nothing to do with anything, except they just happened to be on my craft table at the time I took the photos of the spray paint.

For those of you who are new to my blog, or for those of you who may have forgotten, way back on April 20, I ranted wrote about my disdain for plastic and set out to use a few plastic lids to make stencils. If interested, here is the original post and how I intended to use the lids. As I mentioned in the original post, I am craft knife challenged and it took me forever to get up the nerve to cut the stencil.

As you can see, I was not as ambitious with the details of the coffee cup stencil as I originally sketched it. However, I was pleased to have managed to cut it out at all. The first thing I did was lay my plastic cup stencil on a piece of clean-up fabric from my recent flour resist dyeing session.

I apparently didn't get the stencil placed properly, because instead of an image of a coffee cup, there was just a blob of paint.

To correct this, I used my Wacky Tac to make the stencil repositionable and grabbed a second cup of coffee, my drink of choice both yesterday and today, this rainy Tea Tuesday. It is just the way I like it, freshly ground French roast beans, white with half and half. And thankfully I had made a fresh pot right before the electricity went out.

Yep, this is the mug I purchased last Wednesday, a tongue in cheek response to our recent heat wave. Now don't you feel cooler already? Could this be what caused the heat to break?

By now, the Wacky Tac was dry and I positioned the stencil on the fabric and sprayed again.

And again the stencil didn't work! I can tell I must practice a lot more before I write the Simply Spray tutorial. Or maybe I just need a different stencil.

Whatever the reason for the failed experiment, I'm now enjoying a cup of coffee today also, and am off to visit all the other coffee lovers oops, I mean tea drinkers participants of Tea Tuesday. Please check out Kimmie's sidebar for the other fabulous ladies participating in this. And Kimmie has always made a point of telling us it's OK to drink something other than tea. So if you want to join us each week, please just let Kimmie know by leaving her a comment.

The nice thing about joining these lovely ladies for tea is you get exposed to some pretty unique and wonderful art along the way. Everyone's style is so different and unique and I learn so much from each blog I visit. That is definitely the case with today's blog of choice. It belongs to Bea Neal of Dog in the Hole Studio. Bea has a colorful and eclectic style which ranges from graffiti to Zetti. Her photos are superb and not to be missed. Then there's her take on life, often so funny and truthful that you'll be glad you stopped by. So please hop on over and say hi to Bea today.