This house has shaped up to be much different than our last home in AZ.
For starters, almost all the walls are white (by choice).
Now I love me some clean and crisp white walls but this wall just looked naked.
(Yes, there's that blue/green door still covered with tape just waiting for me to pick a color...
that's another post for another day).
I hung up the beautiful canvases of my boys taken by Michelle of Wondertime Photo, which I love and adore, but the wall still needed something more. Color? Pattern?
Perfect timing...Cutting Edge Stencils approached me about reviewing one of their wall stencils.
You may remember I stenciled my AZ bathroom ceiling with their Trellis Stencil a while back with great results.
This go around decided on the Birch Forrest Allover Stencil.
First, I taped off all my edges with Frog Tape's Delicate Surface Tape.
The tape you use is very important!
Because you are moving your stencil over it's own pattern you just painted you must pick a tape that won't remove the freshly painted surface.
My stencil was all curled up so I used my blow dryer to warm the surface so it would lay flat.
Cutting Edge Stencils has this really cool tool called the Clip On Stencil Level and it is a MUST have.
Made it really handy for keeping my stencil level and straight.
Tape the edges of your stencil with Frog Tape Delicate (my recommendation) and roll your stencil with paint. Tip...after you load up your roller with paint, roll off the excess on a paper towel.
This will ensure that your paint isn't bleeding up underneath your stencil.
Paint is a shade by Benjamin Moore called "Half Moon Crest" which was left over from our master bedroom.
"Inch by inch, row by row...I'm gonna make my garden grow."
Before:
After:
I will say, it looks pretty darn good.
I wish my photos did it better justice...Michelle, come back with your camera!
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