I keep stumbling across people mentioning the wonders of freezer paper (here, here , here, and here), so I thought I would share the results of my one attempt. This test run was from last year before Christmas. I had great plans to stencil the bird design onto some drawstring pouches but ran out of time. It was a fast and fun project though. The drawing it based on a little statue I saw in Domino.

All of this talk of stencils has gotten me thinking about another project on my to do list. I really want to try stenciling onto a mirror to make something like this (at least until I can afford the real thing). I just love the stuff from Atelier LZC.

I have a couple of bottles of acrylic Liquitex Glossies paint that is supposed to work on glass, but it looks like it has to be heat set which seems dangerous for a mirror. (Can you even put a mirror in the oven? For some reason I don’t even want to think about that. It just sounds like trouble.) I want to look at some of the glass painting kits at the craft store first. (Something like this that doesn’t require heat setting.)

And in other news, since the fun of Back Tack III just wasn’t enough, I’ve signed up for another swap. I’m so excited. This “Hand Carved Stamp Recipe Card Swap” is being hosted by Moki (who just happens to be my Back Tack III partner). She put together an amazing tutorial for carving stamps. There was also some great talk about carving materials over here too..