This is a ceiling I stenciled when my brother and sister-in-law were awaiting the arrival of the son they were adopting from Guatemala. The inspiration came from a page I saw in an old Pottery Barn Kids catalog. The letters are just randomly placed about on the ceiling and my nephew’s name, Gabriel, is spelled out […]
Silver Leaf Stenciled Ceiling
Stenciling We Love: Day 18 Debra Campbell, the owner of Wallartistry, stenciled this custom ceiling design over a metallic acrylic plaster background. After allowing the plaster to dry, Debra applied the stencil and rolled a coat of water-based gilding size and let it tack up. She then used aluminum leafing sheets and rubbed the leaf […]
Victorian Ceiling
Stenciling We Love: Day 6 Artist Viktoria Stockmal stenciled this lovely ceiling in a Victorian style home in Connecticut. After stenciling the designs in green and red, Viktoria went over them with raw umber to “age” the colors. The stencil shown on the wall is the Rococco design from Epoch Designs (now a part of […]
Embellished Stenciling: Ceilings
Today, we are thrilled to present these gorgeous stenciled ceilings done by Patty Henning of Fabulous Finishes. Patty used Swarovski Crystals to embellish this Modello™ over a plaster finish. Here is a far shot, showing the entire ceiling. Patty clearly shows us how stenciling can be taken to the highest level! Over 100 crystals were […]
Starry, Starry Night
Northwest Nature Shop offers both a Summer and Winter Night Sky stencil in two sizes, 8 feet and 12 feet. These astronomically accurate stencil kits are made for ceilings and come complete with brush and a “special formulated luminous paint which absorbs ambient light, and is practically invisible on white or off-white surfaces”. Their website claims […]