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STENCIL IT: 101 Ideas to Decorate Your Home
January 2, 2012 by Pat Ganino in Featured / 7 Comments.
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Stencils have limitless decorative potential and are a relatively inexpensive way to revamp a boring piece of furniture or redecorate a room. In STENCIL IT (St. Martin’s Griffin; October 25, 2011) author Helen Morris, one of the founders of the renowned Stencil Library, shares 101 of her favorite ideas for stenciling everything in your home. Using her simple methods you can produce endless effects on any surface–from walls and furniture to your clothes and even your morning cappuccino! Featuring an impressive gallery of gorgeous stencils with a wide variety of styles there are pictorials, florals, architectural motifs, graphic patterns, and more.
The step-by-step techniques demonstrate the practical application of stencil design on a variety of surfaces, teaching you how to achieve new decorative schemes for your home. Using various configurations and color combinations, this book helps to create a range of dramatically different looks–from small scale projects to whole rooms! And the twenty specially-commissioned stencils included will get you started in revamping anything and everything around you.
STENCIL IT offers quick and easy ways to bring pattern and color into your home, including 15 ready-to-use original stencil templates to get you started!HELEN MORRIS is a founder of The Stencil Library which currently has a portfolio of over 4,000 stencils. In 2010 they celebrated twenty-two years as one of the world’s leading stencil design and manufacturing companies. Helen is also the author of The Stenciled Home and is a highly regarded expert in the field.
STENCIL IT
101 Ideas to Decorate Your Home
By Helen Morris
St. Martin’s Griffin
Publication Date: October 25, 2011
Price: $29.99
ISBN: 0-312-61794-1
Includes 200 color photos throughoutblog: www.designinspiration.typepad.com
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7 Comments
Theresa Cheek
Helen has some of the most historically accurate stencils still in production. I absolutely love her line and the book!
02 Jan 2012 10:01 pm
Lesley
To buy or not to buy? Heh heh, like it’s even a question!
03 Jan 2012 11:01 am
Pat Ganino
Looks like a really nice book. Looking forward to opening it up!
03 Jan 2012 01:01 pm
Linda Banning
Check out the IDAL News – You can get Helen’s book for $8 off at Amazon.com!
05 Jan 2012 11:01 am
Sue Sidun
I ordered the book, once I saw that 15 stencil designs are included!
For people interested in cutting their own stencils, (you may need to custom-size the designs or want to create your own) may I recommend the instructions (for free) and the “EZ-cut” stencil film(s) (for sale) from http://www.pjstencils.com
05 Jan 2012 05:01 pm
rima bechara
Just ordered it, can’t wait to get it Tuesday.
05 Jan 2012 11:01 pm
Helen Morris
I hope that you all like the book once it arrived. I put PJ’s details in the resources section for burners and film. I’ll check out her instruction too. I included photo projects on cutting stencils with blades and burners in the Stencil It book. It shows you how to enlarge the fifteen stencils too incase you need large scale stuff.
27 Jan 2012 10:01 am
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