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Stencils, especially FREE stencils are a creative way to personalize the baby's nursery with painted designs and motifs that reflect your chosen theme in perfectly matched color combinations.
Baby room wall stencils may be the best way to get a perfect color match of a wall border or decorative focal point and the nursery bedding set that you picked to decorate the crib in your baby boy or girl's nursery.
This is a do it yourself nursery decorating project that takes a little time, but will save you a lot of money! It's easy and with all the sources for free printable stencil designs online; cheap! Stencils are a very inexpensive way to create a custom baby nursery and using them requires no more skill than it takes to paint a wall in a solid color.
STENCIL DESIGNS
EASY BALLOON BORDER
Stencil your own custom wall border in any designs or colors that you can imagine. Here's an example of a stenciled border that would be lovely for a circus theme or a little something colorful and fun for any kid's room.
- Start by stenciling a group of balloons and then draw the strings that tie 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, inspirational words or a memorable quotation under the painted balloon stencil designs.
HAND PRINTS and FOOTPRINTS
Take one of your child's hand prints and make personalized, hand stencils to criss cross in a painted border around the bedroom. It takes some time, but you would never find wallpaper borders that cost so little. Home made stencil art is easy, fast and practically FREE! It just doesn't get much better than that!
LAYERED WALL STENCIL KITS
For the advanced artist it's possible to paint an entire wall mural for your nursery using decorative wall stencils that layer
one stencil design over another that gives the painting a 3D look. While much easier than other methods of mural painting, layering the numerous stencil sheets takes practice. You might want to start with simple stencil designs and use self adhesive stencil materials.
FREE STENCIL DECORATING and CRAFT IDEAS
Here are some ideas for how to use your free stencil designs to paint personalized, custom nursery wall borders for baby's room.
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.
PRINTABLE, FREE STENCIL RESOURCES
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!
There are loads of free wall stencil patterns and cutout patterns available online. Another way to get free designs is to take a coloring book for kids with pictures that you like and trace cutouts. There are books in the stores with pictures of pacifiers and baby bottles that you could use to decorate gift bags for a shower or images you could use to decorate many nursery themes.
HOW TO WORK WITH STENCILS
Once you find the designs you want, here's how to use them.
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Save the images to your computer. Use your imaging software to make them the size that you need for your nursery furniture, wall, floor or ceiling painting and decorating project.
Remember to use larger images for wall art projects and small ones 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
If you are unsure of yourself, take advantage of the easy online craft tutorials that give instructions for how to use Photoshop software to make your own personalized designs and baby theme stencil patterns. If you create your own unique designs, don't forget to copyright them!
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!
Decorating ideas for your wall stencils are everywhere! One stylish way to use them is to buy or make your own free stencils and paint your baby's name on the nursery walls. Another fashionable use for decorative wall stencils is to use them to stencil inspirational sayings and words over the crib in the nursery, over the dining room table or behind the sofa in the den.
Any painting or decorating project can be made so much more interesting with the use of stencils. Stretch your imagination a bit and you will find many creative uses for your stencil outlines. You can create personalized gifts for showers, decorate the baby's nursery or give your children's bedroom a quick makeover for a very inexpensive price.
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