Using FREE Stencils in Your Nursery Theme and Decor

Stencils, especially FREE stencils and other free baby items are your way to the perfect baby nursery decor in your chosen theme for a baby boy or girl!

Do it yourself! It's easy and with all the sources for free printable stencil designs online. Stencils are a very frugal and budget minded way to create a custom baby nursery or bring any other wall decorations together! Here's your chance to experiment with some great ideas for painting your walls.

Work your way through some of the easy online tutorials on how to begin using your Photoshop software to make your own personalized designs and baby theme stencil patterns. If you come up with some really unique designs, don't forget to copyright them!

Stencil a cool wall border. Begin by stenciling a group of balloons and then draw the strings holding the balloons free handed. Paint your child's name on one of the balloons or use free alphabet stencils to help with lettering baby's name or lettering some words or a quotation under your stencil designs. Take one of your child's hand prints and make hand stencils to criss cross around the bedroom in your chosen color scheme. What a great cheap decorating idea! Home made stencil art is easy, fast and practically FREE! It just doesn't get much better than that!

It's possible to paint an entire wall mural for your nursery using decorative wall stencils by layering one stencil design over another. Unless you are a painting veteran, I would begin with a simple stencil design and use self adhesive stencil materials to guarantee success.

Here are some great ideas on using free stencil designs or stencil design downloads for nursery wall borders.

There are all sizes of baby stencils in every decorative motif and theme that you can imagine! Here are some of our favorites.

Stencils for a baby girl's nursery:

ladybugs
flowers
a leaf or leaves
a butterfly stencil
carrots for a bunny theme
bows and streamers

Stencils for a baby boy's nursery:

Sports themes like basketballs,footballs or soccer balls
fire trucks
Tropical fish or fishing theme wall stencils
Horse theme Puppy dog paw print stencil - some dog bones or paw prints

Unisex baby nursery stencils:

Letter stencils for lettering that memorable quote on your walls
Numbers
Moon and stars

There are lots of resources for free stencils. You can enlarge and copy free stencils or use the fonts for letters on your computer to make your lettering stencils. You can use random letter and number stencils to stencil patterns instead of wallpaper for a kid's room.

There are many sources of royalty free stencil patterns available online:

Free stencil patterns for an Asian or Japanese design

www.stencil-library.com The Stencil Library

www.allfreecrafts.com All Free Crafts: They give ideas for stenciling projects. Get ideas for using the many free stencils that you find online!

All right! We're inspired and ready to use our free stencils!

Follow these steps:

Save the free stencils offered on this page to your computer. Use your imaging software to make it the size that you need for your nursery furniture, wall, floor or ceiling painting and decorating project. Larger images for wall art projects and smaller to personalize your baby nursery furniture or baby accessories.
Use the printout as your pattern
trace the designs onto acetate sheets removing the appropriate cutouts. Leave a 3 inch border for design stability
Tape your pattern in place and with a stencil brush (a sponge can be used in a pinch)begin to build color. Blot the paint from your brush after each loading. Add a small amount of paint at a time. Build your color gradually! It's much hard to have to repaint the nursery wall to remove paint run than to build a little at a time

All righty! Stand back take a look at your beautiful stencil designs! So easy, and when you want to change your nursery theme you know it's just a matter of finding more free stencils, paint and some imagination! Way to go! There are loads of free wall stencil patterns and cutout patterns available online. You can use cutouts from a coloring book for kids. Choose wall stencils with motifs and designs that fit with your nursery theme. Decorating ideas for your wall stencils are everywhere! One of the most popular is to buy or make your own free stencils and paint baby's name on the nursery walls. Another use for wall stencils is to stencil inspirational sayings and words as focal points or as borders.

When you have a painting project, let your imagination roam and think of all the ways that stenciling can make your baby's nursery walls even more special and unique!

Here are some articles of interest on the subject of using stencils to decorate the baby's room.

Gothic Stencils and Designs.

UNIQUE BABY GEAR, Nursery Themes and Decorating Ideas