Stop paint from bleeding under your stencils with these easy tips! Plus make a quick DIY wood sign with a frame with chalk paint and your favorite craft stencil design.
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Ombre Palm Tree Card with ColorBox Chalk Ink – A CardMaker + Clearsnap Blog Hop
Product for this post was provided by Clearsnap. This post contains affiliate links. All opinions are 100% my own. Today, I am really excited to be sharing an ombre palm tree card created with stencils and ColorBox Chalk Ink for the Clearsnap and CardMaker Magazine Blog Hop. Palm trees are EVERYWHERE right now! A friend of mine said that palm fronds are the new “gold
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DIY Garden Markers – How to Upcycle Paint Stir Sticks
(Disclosure: this post contains affiliate links from which I make a few pennies if you make a purchase from the linked sites.) This month I am focusing on how to upcycle our trash into useful, practical items around the house. In doing all of these home improvement projects I’ve noticed that we go through alot of paint stir sticks. There are alot of projects on
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DIY Faux Headboard with Royal Design Studio Stencils
With the holidays being here and friends coming to visit, I want my house to look its best so I was super excited to find out about Royal Design Studio Stencils, available in stunning modern designs. An easy way to spruce up the house for the holidays is by using paint. Adding stencils makes the transformation of a simple wall or furniture piece even more impressive
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How to Wood Burn Using Stencils – A StencilGirl Blog Hop
Welcome to the Stencil Girl “The BOOK” Blog Hop! The StencilGirl team has been waiting and waiting to share with you what we did with Mary Beth Shaw’s book, Stencil Girl! There are so many fun techniques in this book we hope that you sit back and get inspired to try a few (or all of them). Today I created a project featuring the “Woulda Coulda Wood Burn” wood burning techniques from
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Resist with PanPastels and Stencils – a StencilGirl Hop
I first used PanPastels in a Donna Downey class a few years back and they were so amazingly fun to work with. For this project, I was inspired by some tips from my friend Jamie Dougherty. Being a papercrafter, I too sometimes get a little scared of things that feel too far out of my box but Jamie said, hey, just do a resist technique
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