This post is sponsored by Plaid FolkArt; I was compensated for this post but all ideas and opinions are my own.
Heres a super fun tutotial to make some modern bedroom art for your boy (or playroom or even 4th of July decor!). The stencils & paints I used are from FolkArt Stencils & Paints and I'm obsessed with how thick and creamy the paint is!
Supplies: FolkArt Stencil1 (NYC pack)
FolkArt paint (I used a black, aqua, yellow, grey & silver)
FolkArt Stencil adhesive
foam brush
3 canvas boards
(All the paint and stencils can now be purchased at Michaels!)
After much trial and error I found my favorite way to do the "swiss cross" was to take a pencil, eyeball where I wanted it and then use the foam brush to freehand them. You can obviously tell that's what I did, but I like the ecclectic feel of it and it take 80% less time than measuring taping, re-taping and re-taping to make them perfect! So, embrace the imperfections!
While you're letting them dry, prep your stencils. Read the instructions and then apply to the back of your stencils and let dry. The awesome thing about it is it makes the stencil stay in place but is repositionable. It will dry clear and cleans up with soap/water.
When your stencils and canvases are dry, position your stencils on your canvases, pressing down to keep them in place.
Using a stencil brush or pouncer, apply your FolkArt paint over stencils. To get my "graffiti" effect, I over-saturated the brush before applying to stencils. For the manhole stencil I let the grey dry and applied a thin layer of the silver paint.
Remove stencils and let dry completely before hanging or resting on shelf. My other favorite thing about the new FolkArt paint is that they're multi-surface so they can be used for more than just "normal" paint stuff.
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