Stencil Designers

A few posts ago, I showed a stenciled flower pot design from StenSource. Jennifer Ferguson, over at The Stencilled Garden, also offers quite a variety of stencils specifically for flower pots.

I love the idea of gluing on some little feet to the saucer. Jennifer shows some other clever ideas for these pots, such as using the saucer for a lid, on her website.  Complete instructions for the pots can be found here.

Stenciling We Love: Day 15

Mad Stencilist Sheri Hoeger painted this bathroom using custom stencils she created for the project. The hand-cut stencil designs consisted of four sections which had about a 5 foot repeat.

An abbreviated version of this design, which still maintains the feel and flow of the original, is available through The Mad Stencilist website.

View more of Sheri's work at Art to Live By. Her stencil designs are available at The Mad Stencilist.

Stenciling We Love: Day 1

These pillows were stenciled by Lisa Klofkorn, of Fly on the Wall Design

Lisa bought brightly colored raw silk and stenciled the designs on the fabric using gold metallic acrylic artist paints. The pillows were sewn after the designs were stenciled.

These particular stencil designs were inspired by the Wiener Werkstatte design movement in Vienna at the beginning of the 1900's.

I bring you yet three more wonderful sources for Craftsman Style Stencils, to close out this week's theme.  I hope you have been as inspired as I have by these lovely designs!

American Home Stencils offers a great selection of borders including this Mission Trees design.

Jan Dressler has a modern adaptation tile design called Craftsman Pine Cone Faux Tile.

Ford Craftsman Studio offers a selection of 20 border designs, as well as some interesting items for sale on their website. They feature some beautiful embroidered linens using Craftsman designs.

Continuing on with this week's theme of Arts & Crafts Movement inspired stencils designs, I'd like to introduce you to Trimbelle River Studio & Designs.  This company, based in Ellsworth, Wisconsin, is owned by Amy Miller. I really like the variety of designs and the sizes of this stencil line. The stencils are divided into category by size: petite, small, medium, large, and spot and panel stencils. Sizes range from 1 1/4" up to over 12".

Michael FitzSimmons Decorative Arts also carries a fine selection of Craftsman Stencils. Based in Oak Park, IL, this company specializes in furniture, lighting, metalware, ceramics, textiles and paintings of the American and British Arts & Crafts Movements. This website is well laid out and showcases with clear photos the many items they offer for sale. Some great stencils designs can be found here!