| Stenciling a Window |
From "DIY Crafts"
episode DIC-130 |
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Don't just stencil your windows for the holidays -- stencil them year-round using instructions from Jan Dressler, stencil designer and owner of Dressler Stencil Company. Using her stenciling techniques, you can create a window that looks great both inside and out and may even help mask an unsightly view. Materials:
#210 Garden Ivy stencil
Stencil brushes
#DA167 Payne's Gray paint for veins
#DA133 Hauser Dark Green paint for leaves
#DA6 Pineapple paint for leaves
Paper plate
Paper towels
Masking tape
- To create an ivy vine on a window that can be viewed from both sides of the window, start with the last overlay first -- the leaf veins. Using a stencil brush and gray paint, stencil the leaf veins on the window. Stencil the registration marks of the stencil on the window also to make it easy to line up the other overlays. You'll remove the marks later. Load the stencil brush with paint, then wipe most of the paint off the brush by pouncing it on a folded paper towel. Since the window is a nonabsorbent surface, excess paint won't sink into the surface. Remove the leaf vein overlay (figure A).
- Place the next overlay on the window, lining up the registration marks. This is the main leaf overlay. Use the gray shading color, and stencil just the tips of the leaves (figure B).
- Using the same overlay, select the main leaf color (dark green), and stencil around the edges of the leaves (figure C). Don't use this color in the center of the leaves.
- Keeping the same overlay in place, load the stencil brush with pineapple-colored paint, and stencil in the center of the leaves (figure D).
- Now, with the same overlay in place, reload the brush with dark green, and stencil around the leaf edges again. Leave the overlay in place. Load the stencil brush with gray, and stencil the tips of the leaves. Remove the leaf overlay.
- Place the leaf vein overlay on the window, lining up the registration marks. Load the stencil brush with gray paint, and stencil the veins of the leaves (figure E). Because this method builds the stenciled image twice -- first in reverse, beginning with the smallest details (in this case, the gray leaf veins) and working up to the larger ones, then in the usual way, working from larger to smaller details -- the complete picture can be seen from both sides of the glass.
- Remove the stencil registration marks with an alcohol-based window cleaner. And if you get tired of the entire stenciled image, you can remove it with window cleaner (figure F).
RESOURCES :
Garden Ivy stencil (#210) and stencil brushes
Dressler Stencil Company
Renton, WA 98055-4930
Phone: 425-656-4515
Fax: 425-656-4381
Email: dresslerstencils@msn.com
Website: www.dresslerstencils.com
Acrylic paints are available directly from DecoArt
DecoArt Inc.
Website: www.decoart.com
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