3.12.2011

damask fakesy wall paper





My craft room/home office has needed some attention for quite some time now. I love that patterned wallpaper is so in, but I didn't want to go to all of the work of wall-papering so I started looking for other options. I found a wall stencil from a company called cutting edge stencils through Etsy, although they have their own site at http://www.cuttingedgestencils.com/. I have since seen that Hobby Lobby has a few patterned fakesy wallpaper stencils of their own (but not AS big as the cutting edge stencils). Originally, I put it off because I thought it would be a lot of work-but it was so easy!





See? That's a 6 year old, yo! Easy.


What you need:


Stencil


Paint (I used leftover Behr Ultra)


Small Roller


Painters Tape


Measuring Tape


Let's not kid ourselves here. I am by no means an expert, and if I can do it so can anyone. I finished my wall in less than an hour. It was as easy as taping the stencil to the wall and rolling the paint over it. I made sure there was never too much paint in the roller so it didn't bleed into the stencil, but found that if I had to push paint out of the roller that would make it bleed also. I found my groove just by trial and error. Even the tries that I felt weren't perfect still look good.



Here is the almost finished project..

I'd love to hear if you've tried stenciling or wall paper. If you have any questions, post me a comment!

3 comments:

Andi said...

Really love it!

Carrie Randall said...

Lindsey Fae! I love it, it's so cute, I'm super-duper impressed.

Amanda said...

OMG! I love this! Thanks for posting about these stencils. My 7 month old daughter's crib set has the damask print and this would be so cute in her room...I'm thinking maybe just as a border around the top, or maybe in the middle, like a painted on chair rail?