Dimensional Stenciling
Sara Rivka is a blogger living in the gorgeous rolling hills of Northern Israel. An Interior and Graphic Designer by profession, she shares the joys of crafting, decorating, cooking, and gardening with readers of her Creative Jewish Mom blog. In a recent post about dimensional stenciling, Sara shared how to use stencils and joint compound [...]
Reverse Stenciling with Masks
This video by Tim Holtz demonstrates the use of masks with inks for paper crafts, but these masks would be perfect for paint applications as well. Using masks in this way is often referred to as reverse stenciling or negative stenciling. You can find Tim Holtz Idea-ology Masks online at Jo-Ann, CreateForLess, eBay, or Amazon.com PopShops™ affiliate stores ...
Roc-lon® Multi-Purpose Cloth™
If you have not used Roc-lon® Multi-Purpose Cloth™, I highly recommend this heavy duty fabric for a variety of stencil projects. The beauty of this fabric is that it cuts with a very clean edge, using scissors or an Xacto™ knife/craft knife. I typically find this fabric at my local JoAnn Fabrics store and almost [...]
Updating a Stencil Design
I recently returned to a client's home to do a little updating of some finishes and stenciling in their foyer. I did a scroll border (Palazzo Scroll Border by Royal Design Studio) above this doorway about six years ago. The homeowner decided that it was just too linear for her, so she was hiding it [...]
Wallpaper Stenciling
Here is another fabulous blog find. This living room belongs to blogger Lauren Liess of Pure Style Home, and was stenciled by her husband Dave using a Ralph Lauren wallpaper stencil design. Stenciling an entire room with wallpaper stencils can be a time consuming task — Lauren writes that it took Dave 3 days to finish. [...]
