Making a stencil out of painter's tape.

Hi! My name is Brooke, and this is a room I created! It was really fun to do things the "THRIFTY" way and spend hardly ANYTHING to make the room cute. That's just how I roll. :) To make things simple, I'll just start with a "ART" I made for the wall!


After a few days of contemplation, I decided to create an art piece myself. Of course this is almost always the conclusion I come to in a situation like this. IT'S WAY cheaper...and usually CUTER if you do things yourself.

So, I took 2 blank white canvas art boards (that I bought at the local craft store for $7.00 each) and went to work.

FIRST...I found a pattern that I loved, and wanted to use. In this case, it was the fabric I had already obtained on clearance at Pottery Barn. (The black and white pattern that I used to make the window valence and also placed at the bottom of the bed.)

I laid the fabric on my counter and placed a piece of wax paper over the fabric. I then traced out the pattern with a sharpie marker.


Then I covered the opposite side of the wax paper with a painters tape. As you can see by the picture, I basically covered the entire piece of wax paper.


Next, I carefully cut out the painters tape to create the pattern. I ended up using both the negative space and the positive space as the stencil. I laid them out on the canvas to make sure they looked good, and fit well.

I then took off the wax paper (carefully :)) and put them on the canvas.

This part is VERY important. Don't put too much paint on your brush, and be extra careful about the edges of the tape. I still ended up touching up around them in a few spots.

Here is the finished product! What a success! Don't you think!?!?


TOTAL COST: $14.00 for the canvas + a smidgen for painters tape and craft paint EQUALS...."THRIFTY!!!!!"

Here is the finished result!