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Lovely Lanterns by Melanie Royals
February 27, 2011 by Melanie Royals in How To / 5 Comments.
Contact Melanie Royals by email or visit Melanie's web site, http://www.royaldesignstudio.com/
I have a fun and colorful project to share that we’ve just completed here in Lauren’s office. Lauren is my creative asistant and is responsible for all the lovely graphics on our websites and in our print material. She loves bright colors and she helped to create the lantern images shown below. I’ve been focusing on ways of combining our Modello Designs one-time-use vinyl masking patterns with the reusable mylar stencils from Royal Design Studio. There are different benefits to using both and this type of application combines the best of both worlds!
I started with a colorful pallette of paints from Benjamin Moore mixed in their Aura paint base. I LOVE this paint! It covers so well and dries very quickly, making it great for a project like this.
First, I put of the Modello Silhouette Japanese Lantern patterns and filled them in solidly with the different colors of paint.
Then, with the masking patterns still in place, I added colorful design with a variety of stencils from our Kimono Collection at Royal Design Studio.
For the lantern strings, I used black ribbon and finished it off with some really cute little felt flowers at top and bottom that I found in the scrapbooking aisle at Michaels.
The ceiling has been done for some time, but the addition of the lanterns totally brightens up the room and pulls it all together. More detailed instructions can be found here. Our complete new Silhouettes and Stencils range at Modello Designs is here. I hope you enjoy these, they were so much fun to do!
To see more from Melanie Royals you can visit her blog at: http://designamour.com/
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5 Comments
Mary Anson
Wonderful tutorial and lovely results!
Mari
01 Mar 2011 08:03 am
Margaret vK
The colors add a lot to the room! Love the ceiling and the border to the ceiling. Thank you for sharing!!
02 Mar 2011 12:03 am
Melanie Royals
Thanks ladies! This was a really fun little project. Loved playing with the bright colors!!
02 Mar 2011 11:03 am
Sue Solitaire
I love pattern mixing and this just proves how wonderful it can look. All inclusive, ceiling, border, etc. Great job as usual Melanie!
09 Mar 2011 07:03 pm
Mayra Navarro
Oh my gosh! How beautiful Melanie! I love it!
02 Jul 2012 11:07 am
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