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Homemade with love, a new magazine

Homemade with love is a new, craft and style magazine.

It is full of tutorials and creative ideas and is on sale now at WHSmith and by subscription. They have a website, blog and all the usual channels. The April issue features a story about stencilling and includes some of our photographs and a nice mention for our Stencil It book.

I wrote a project for them in which I demonstrate how to create a vintage style kitchen with stencils.

They offer a 'how to' that shows how to make felt flowers.

I fancy trying huge ones as wall decor. I might combine them with one of our stencils of branches similar to this....

...only bigger. The picture shows our DR2 Cherry Blossom stencil, paper flowers were fixed over the stencilled branches. The picture is the cover from In Bloom by Alice Whately. 

Helen.

Contemporary gothic decoration.

A stencilled gothic pattern is given a contemporary twist by using stencil GMT53 with an unexpected colour combination instead of a traditional one.

A custom sized version of the same gothic stencil was used here by Better Homes and Gardens Magazine.

Raskl Furniture, Deco Home and a girl with a pearl earring

An email from the fab designers at Raskl reached me yesterday. It carried an attachment from Deco Home magazine in Germany asking where to buy the modern Girl with Pearl Earring painting in the photo. The press cutting and enquiry was a nice surprise, my husband Chips painted the picture though the page has nothing to do with him.  The text in February's Deco Home featured the aforementioned fab, Newcastle based Raskl Design. The picture shows their Agranda Bench which is telescopic...

Isn't that handsome?

The Raskl photo shoot was at the beautiful home of one of the North East's brightest artists. I am surprised that this home has not appeared in more shoots it is very lovely. The owner used to be an editor at Conde Nast, she is extremely stylish and creative and just happened to have bought one of my husband's dot paintings. You may remember me blogging about his progress and the sale of this piece when I visited the house to hang it.  So in a roundabout, abstract way. Chips has had a piece of international press exposure this month.

He is working on a collection of smaller paintings at the moment for Chippendale and Morris and I'll look forward to showing you, when he lets me. Now that Deco Home Magazine has details of the painting you never know he might make another sale.

www.facebook.com/decomagazin and www.decohome.de

Helen.

 

Opulence paint and a peacock feather stencil

Quick to create and pretty to look at.

Peacock feather stencilled with Pink Organza and Blue Lustre Pearl Shimmer over Midnight Blue Matt Emulsion from the Craig & Rose Opulence paint collection. Stencil CO19-L from The Stencil Library.

five, fabulous stencilled baths

 

 

Stencil DE67 from Arts & Crafts Collection at The Stencil Library. Via Housetohome

Stencil GR38 from Garden Room Collection at The Stencil Library via Housetohome

Stencil JA25 Carp no 2 from Japanese Collection at The Stencil Library via Housetohome

Stencil CS58R 8 point star From The Stencil Library. Furniture stencil BB1 Gothic. Floor stencil BB1 Gothic Border stencil at 200%.(special order) All from the Budget Collection at The Stencil Library.

Paisley stencils on fabric IN47 from the Indian Collection at The Stencil Library.

 

photo Period Living & Traditional Homes.

Last photo has two bonus baths! The pewter finish is by Annie Sloan. Maggie Colvin models her turquoise bath featuring monogram stencil and garland from The Stencil Library.  'Take the time to smell the roses' is one of the proverbs offered in the Lettering Collection from The Stencil Library.  The rose stencil is code CA14 stenciled with Liquitex acrylic paint. All these stencilled tubs are roll top baths. A boxed in bath with a paintable panel is even easier to decorate.

PS.  The bath with the roses kept toppling because the feet were not yet attached to it. The photographer's assistant was placed in the bath to weigh it down... I'm sitting on him.  The things that we do to get a good photo.

Helen. 

 

Martha does stencilling!

(cover photo Hugh Stewart)

We were so excited when we received the post this morning and in it was the September 2008 issue of the fabulous Martha Stewart Living magazine.  This month, they have produced a very large feature on stencilling.  According to the editor, Ms Stewart was so excited about the stencilling story that she wanted to appear on the cover along with the first stencilled logo.  She has always known a good thing when she sees it.  We are lucky enough to have a couple of our stencils featured.

This is our lace repeat pattern used effectively on a screen.  The lace repeat works in reverse.  You paint the surface the colour you want the lace to be and stencil the background colour back in.  Here is a closeup shot of it.

MSL also used our Designer Floral Display set of stencils.  There are three sheets of stencils which can be used seperately or together to create a floral arrangement in any configuration.  These stencils have been used to create an informal floral garland on a round table top.

(other photos Mikkel Vang)

The feature is full of great ways to use stencils and covers the multitude of surfaces that stencils can go onto.  I particularly like the dot pattern stencilled on top of wallpaper (being a massive fan of layering pattern on pattern myself), shown in the photo below the floral stencilled tabletop. For more information on the stencil feature, click here.

I always find MSL full of fantastic ideas.  The magazine is a joy to read.  They also have an excellent web-site and are fellow Typepad bloggers.  I recommend that you sign up for the newsletter on the web-site.  Martha Stewart Living magazine is sold worldwide (I am delighted that I can even pick up a copy in Stocksfield village's local newsagent!).  Look out for it hitting your shelves, buy a copy and indulge.  Rachel.