Stenciled Lamp Shade



This lamp has been sitting in a closet for years now just waiting for someone to take pity on it and make it useful again. Today is that day! It used to be in our oldest daughters room but now I'm revamping it to match our youngest sons bedroom.
The first thing that needed to be changed was that lovely pink stripe. 
So I taped around the pink stripe and painted it orange. While that was drying I got started on stenciling the lamp shade.
I found these cardboard animal stencils at Micheals a while back and chose four animals that would match the decor in the baby's bedroom.
Taped them onto the shade so they were evenly spaced.

Then used a foam pouncer to apply the paint inside the stencil.
Then when they all dried, (I was a little inpatient so I used a hair dryer to speed up the drying process) I pulled off the tape and stencils.


All finished! It matches great with his bedding and canvas wall art I painted a couple weeks ago!
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14 comments:

  1. I think the lamp will enjoy its new life. Looks so cute!

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  2. Love the colors, looks great with the theme of the room.

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  3. CUTE! The lamp was cute to begin with...but I love what you did to it even more.

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  4. I really LOVE this lamp! Liz

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  5. I did some stenciling in my son's room as well and the fabric you chose was one of my contenders. Love the lamp, it adds the animals in another way other than artwork (which is what I did). I'd love for you to link this project up to my party:
    http://qualitycheaphome.blogspot.com/search/label/POC%20Linky%20Party

    Hope to see you there!

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  6. love the customization!!! thanks for linking up to Make it Monday! I'll be sharing on the Brassy Apple FB & twitter pages!

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  7. This lamp looks so cute! Love it! We hope to see you back next week to our "Strut Your Stuff Saturday." Thanks for coming!! -The Sisters

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  8. What a great idea! The lamp is so cute. I checked out the canvas art too and love it! Is that tree with the monkey that is on his wall a stencil too?

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    1. Hi Megan, thanks! The tree and monkeys are vinyl that I got on Etsy.

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  9. Katie, from Quality Cheap Home, and I co-host the "It's a Piece O' Cake" Linky Party. Thanks for linking up! Such a fun idea!

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  10. So adorable! I'd love for you to add it on my link party at: http://printabelle.com/?p=3188 Thanks!

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  11. Thanks very much for linking up!

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