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Baby has arrived! Let’s have some fun and buy baby name stencils and put his or her stamp on the nursery! This project is more than a name on a wall; it’s announcing to the world that this room belongs to our child. We loved that name enough to tag our child with it and now we’ll proudly display it in beautiful scripts and fonts as part of the nursery decor.
We can stencil any baby names that we want directly on the walls or if we need decorative items that are slightly less permanent we can create some customized baby name wall plaques. I love the look of a wall with baby’s names stenciled on them. You can embellish the names in lots of cute ways ranging from cute to downright fancy.
I have seen names painted on the walls that were encircled by wreaths of leaves, vines and roses with a pink and green color scheme or some ornate scrollwork in antique gold. For a baby boy, a wall stencil with his name can be used to paint the name in bold, masculine letters bordered by motifs that add to the room’s theme or style of decor such as nautical theme sailboats, pirate ship flags or even some motorcycles flanking the start and finish of the painted lettering.
You can create your own free name stencils, word stencils or monograms by downloading printable fonts online, making your letters, names and words as large or small as you need with a photo editing program and then cutting your homemade stencils out with a razor knife. This method is cheap if you have lots of time on your hands, but for the average mom staying up late, the decrease in price is not worth the puffy eyes you get from staying up long after the kids are in bed in order to work on your hand made name stencils in peace.
I would invest in custom name stencils that have been laser cut by one of the stencil shops online. It’s a quick, easy and inexpensive way to get started on your personalized baby name wall art project. If your child has one of the more popular (and common) baby's names it's possible that you can skip the fee for a custom cut stencil. Once you consider that you can use these sturdy re-usable stencils over and over price seems even cheaper! There are so many different occasions where the application of a pretty painting of your baby’s name will be appropriate from the time he or she is an infant to pre-school and beyond! Here are a few ideas:
Combine the kids' names with cute border stencils in baby motifs to create a detailed focal point on the wall over baby’s crib or other piece of nursery furniture
Stencil baby’s name on the headboard of the crib with a jeweled crown over it for your little prince or princess' royal place of rest.
In a jungle theme room, have your name stencils cut in letters that are illuminated with animal themes and then get stencils or exotic snakes, lizards or other tropical critters to frame baby’s name
Get some stiff canvas fabric and paint a personalized wall hanging in an appropriate theme for your child’s room. Sew a rod pocket at the top of your wall hanging so that you can easily mount it on the wall. If you have frequent bedroom makeovers or have to relocate regularly, it makes more sense to use your stencils to paint creative, unique wall hangings and plaques as they are more mobile. This is more than just another kids name on the wall, it’s YOUR CHILD’S name stenciled on the wall and that’s a painting project to be proud of!
