Rachel has been working with a customer who wanted a tiny stencil to personalise festive tree baubles. Intrigued by the idea, I set off to Ikea and bought some baubles.
Armed with an alphabet stencil from the seconds and special offers section of our web site, I tried to form a monogram of TSL (The Stencil Library). What a monster!! I have stencilled walls in less time than it took to put three separate initials on a shiny bauble. The first letter was easy to apply. The problem was placing the other two without scraping the paint from the first. I did four then gave up. I do have a life, honest I do. Hours later, I realised that I could have easily stencilled one letter on each bauble and spelled out a welcoming message to suspend above my fire place. Isn't hindsight a wonderful thing? Yes, but it can wait until next year.
I also bought a pair of large baubles and masked a stripe around their middle with tape.
I painted the stripe black then stencilled the company name around them. That project took less than twenty minutes and combined with the mongram baubles they made a striking and simple focal point above the hearth.
Seeing as I was having a festive themed morning I set about making some cards. I used the same bauble stencil that I used for my cards last year. This year the baubles are stencilled on red felt. It was pale blue last time.
The felt is stencilled on both sides and sewn onto the card with a couple of loose stiches so that it swings a little when handled. The felt shapes can be detached and the recipient can use them for coasters or recycle them in other decorative ways. A quick and simple way to finish a card is to stencil a plain border onto it. This takes about ten seconds per card and is worth the effort.
I position the straight edge of the stencil near the edges of the card and apply paint to the exposed area.
Did you recognise the spotty reindeer from our previous project? Helen
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