Decorating with Stencils

Unless you can wisp a brush through paint and come up with a masterpiece, decorating with stencils is a great way for you to experience the satisfaction of being an artist of decorative painting.

If you’re actually contemplating decorative arts, here’s a great tole and decorative painting website to explore.

And of course, art is all about decorating our lives. We want color and pictures everywhere we look. Otherwise our eyes would have nothing to gaze upon and our spirits would be bored.

You’ve come to the right place for great stenciling ideas and how-to information. If you think that stencils are just for walls, you'll be surprised.

Adding Pizzazz to Furniture

You can liven up any room by decorating a piece of furniture to match the theme of the space or create one of its own.

I bet you have a worn out old dresser or out of style cabinet sitting around your house or collecting dust in the attic. Can you imagine it as the new focal point in your living room? Alright, so it might take a little imagination but put your mind to it and I bet you’ll be dragging it out to the garage and slathering paint on it before you know what’s gotten into you.

Come with me and click on this link as I cover some of the ways I used decorating with stencils for Furniture Painting.

Create Your Own Line of Designer Clothing by Decorating With Stencils

We all like to be unique. And since we were created to be different, we should have our own style. As Clairee so eloquently put it in Steel Magnolias, “The ability to accessorize is what separates us from the animals.”

Well, anytime you pick something off the rack at a store notice that it is also available in four different colors and 10 different sizes. In other words about 500 other people can be wearing the same thing. What a dilemma!

Oh wait! I have a great idea. Use a stencil to personalize your clothes (well not all of them).

Do you like the Dragon Jeans pictured above? You could do that. It’s so easy. For the step by step instructions on how to garment stenciling with illustrations, click on the link. You’ll be surprised at what you can do once you get the creative juices flowing.

Stencils as Framed Art?

When we think of stencil art, we often picture an image painted on the wall. But have you ever considered using stencils to create art prints to hang on the wall? Follow this link to get some great ideas on how you can create some great stencil art prints for your home or office!

As you can see, decorating with stencils is a great way to enhance the beauty in our homes, our closets and ourselves! I hope you enjoy the ideas and information on these pages. Come back often because I will be adding many other great ways to use stencils.

By the way, all of the stencils featured here are courtesy of Designs From Penny.

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