I wish that these tutorial pictures were a little brighter but we have had such dark and raining weather that its been so difficult for me to get the images just right. I hope you guys are inspired by this project and will give it a try. I promise you, it is so easy and is worth giving it a try!
40 Printable Stencil Patterns For Many Uses
Stencils or stencil patterns are not something that is considered very favorably by those who are artistically skilled or talented because they are a shortcut for creating something of your own. However, as we know artistic talent, especially the skill to draw well or paint well is not something that all of us have and that is why stencil patterns occupy a special place in our lives. In case you are not really clear, let us clarify what we mean by a stencil. A stencil is a pattern that is cut out on plastic, wood, cardboard or some such other material and is used to be placed on the surface of what you want to draw on or cut out or paint in and used accordingly. In fact, stencil patterns are used in many instances where the need to draw or paint a pattern is felt. If you are so inclined, you can look at free tattoo stencils and know more about them. This way you can use the printable stencil pattern to ask the tattoo artist to create a particular pattern.
Sometimes when we are decorating a space like a room for a child or someone special in your life, then we feel like doing something with our own hands. But you may find that you do not really have the skill to do something as pretty as you wish to do. The solution here is to use printable stencil patterns of your choice. You should not be surprised if many elegant wall painting ideas for your beloved home happen this way. You may be aware of this that art is often used as therapy because the process of creating something with your own hands can be a cathartic experience, one that lifts you from your blues and makes you feel good. In some instances, people like to try their hand at art just because they want to do something with their own hands. Art projects to try to develop and perfect the skill like art on furniture can be done using printable stencil patterns.
Printable Stencil Patterns For Many Uses
By now you must at least be halfway inclined to try your hand at using stencils for creating art, and even if you are only mildly curious, reading some of the uses of printed stencils will definitely get you absolutely interested.
Personalize: Nobody likes to wear something or use something that is similar to what others use but often, we do not have any other choice but to purchase what is available in the market. But this does not mean that you have to use or wear the object or garment that you purchased as it is. You can use printable stencil patterns to make it your own by adding personal touches to it. Just imagine what your jeans would look like with special motifs on them or your plain shoes or a particularly plain bag?
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DIY Multi-Colored Chevron Canvas Art with Printable Stencil…
In case you missed it on Monday, I shared tons of images on how the chevron pattern is evolving and showed some of the fabulous multi-colored chevron accessories and fabrics coming out for spring. As I also mentioned, I wanted to do one post for inspiration, to give you guys tons of ideas and then another post today for this DIY project tutorial. I didn’t want to overload us with a super long post. So, this is the DIY project- multi-colored chevron wall art…
I know there have been tons of tutorials around blogland for chevron wall art. We’ve seen it on walls, canvases, wood signs, etc… Most of the tutorials I have seen have pretty much been the two-toned basic standard pattern and design. I wanted to do a project to focus more on the multi-colored chevron pattern and show how it’s the perfect wall art for pulling colors into space. More importantly, I wanted to show you how this is a great and easy way to update and I have made it even easier by sharing a free printable stencil to get you started!
So you saw the larger canvas that I did at the beginning of the post but I did two more smaller bolder canvases as well. We did a smaller one for a side wall in our master bedroom:
I also did a smaller canvas for my daughter’s room:
Anyone can do this project and its easy with a template and good painters tape. The best part of all is that I used left over wall paint for my pattern on the navy canvases, so I will be sure that all the colors coordinate with the colors of the room perfectly! For my daughter’s canvas, we used acrylics.
So let’s jump right into the instructions:
Step 1) Decide on a base coat for your canvas. If you are using acrylic paints, you’ll want to skip this step. If you are using wall paint and you are not going to be using white, you’ll need to start by painting your canvas in your desired color.
Step 2) Decide on your pattern. For the small canvases, I used these fabulous free printable templates from the fun blog Billie Monster here. Billie Monster has four different sizes of small templates and I printed them out on thick card stock for my stencils. The larger stencil printable that I created is below.
Draw your pattern on your canvas with pencil.
For my large canvas, I created a larger chevron stencil with a yardstick on poster board and I am sharing a free printable stencil for you to download and print to help you get started. Just click on the blue hyperlink “Free Printable Chevron Stencil” directly below:
The stencil download is two pages and will look like this when you print the download:
You will need to cut out the two patterns along the thick black line and then tape the two dagger looking thingies to the triangle thingie like this:
Trace your paper stencil onto a small piece of poster board or card stock so its thick for tracing. Next, measure out poster board the exact same width as your canvas. Position the top point of the stencil in the center top (where the point is precisely at the top edge) and trace:
Because I just wanted a quick picture to show you, I didn’t have enough room on my poster board. With this large stencil, if you want three complete peaks, you will need a canvas width of 30 inches, which means you will need to tape two poster boards together. If you want two peaks, you will need a canvas with the width of 20 inches. One complete peak is 10 inches.
Step 3) Decide on your colors and what colors are going to go where. You can go to my post on Monday here for all kinds of inspiration and color combinations to help you with your design/layout. Use your stencil to trace your pattern onto the canvas with pencil:
Step 4) For my daughter’s canvas, I used acrylic paints. I just used a variety of brands and colors that I had on hand:
For the large canvases in my master bedroom, I used wall paint that I had left over from my room revamp, which means that the colors in the canvas were the exact colors throughout the room!
Step 4) Most of the chevron tutorials out there recommend taping lines with frog tape or 3M Blue Tape for perfect lines but I traced my stencil with pencil and then taped along the pencil lines for my large canvas. However, I used a small edge brush for acrylics without tape and carefully painted my lines on my smaller canvases:
Step 5) Paint your canvas:
The acrylic paint only required one coat but the larger canvas that I used with wall paint too two coats.
Step 6) Allow paint to completely dry and remove tape if you used tape. Touch ups can easily be done with a narrow paint brush and then you’re done!
There are so many possibilities with this easy project and again, it’s such a fantastic way to pull out certain colors from a room. If you need help with color or pattern combinations, don’t forget about all of the pictures I shared on Monday here.
I wish that these tutorial pictures were a little brighter but we have had such dark and raining weather that its been so difficult for me to get the images just right. I hope you guys are inspired by this project and will give it a try. I promise you, it is so easy and is worth giving it a try!
I will be back on Friday for Friday Favorites and if you missed last week’s Favorite Paint Color Trends for 2013, you can get to it by clicking the image below:
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