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!

Stenciled Fabric Cork Board

After stenciling some art for the baby's room I was itching to stencil something else. I had one of those plain cork boards that you have lying around and some white fabric and decided to try stenciling the fabric. It was a bit challenging to get the spacing right but I love how it turned out. 

Supplies needed for this project:

cork board (any size)

plain fabric

stencil of choice

paint- I used Martha Stewart Acrylic Satin- Green Olive

small paint roller- I used the foam roller from Martha Stewart

foam pouncer

thumb tacks- I used about 200

adhesive spray

glue gun

After stenciling the fabric, I used some adhesive spray on the cork board to keep the fabric in place while I placed the thumb tacks in.

Start placing the thumb tacks in. WARNING: This does take a while and your thumbs might get sore. (I had to take little breaks while doing this)

After all the tacks are in place, flip the board over and hot glue the edges down.

 I love the pop of color it gives to this plain wall in my office.

Stenciled Canvas Art

This month Ginger Snap Crafts, Family Ever After, Southern Lovely, and the Gunny Sack are hosting Pinspired Rewired. The theme is stencils and the project must be inspired from Pinterest. I've never stenciled before but thought I would give it a try.

My inspiration came from  Always in Wonder

After finding my inspiration I knew exactly what I wanted to do. The babies room needed some artwork on the walls and so I wanted to do jungle animals that matched his crib bedding and other accessories in his room like this fabric basket that holds his diapers.

Supplies needed for this project:

canvas- I got mine at Ben Franklin for 50% off

paint- I used Martha Stewart's Acrylic Craft Paint 

roller tops and foam pouncers-Martha Stewart's from Micheal's

stencils- I printed mine off onto paper from internet and cut out

Paint each canvas the color of choice and let dry.

I googled animal stencils to find a rhino, turtle, and alligator. Cut them out and taped them to the canvas.

Use the foam pouncers to paint inside the stencil. Let dry, then remove stencil.

Viola!

They add some great color to his bedroom. Stenciling was a lot of fun and I can't wait to find another project that requires using stencils!