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Monday, May 12, 2014

More Room DIY

So a couple of things...
1. Yes today is Monday but yesterday was Mother's Day and I was really busy. Sorry if anybody checked and there wasn't a new post.
2. And as I was a doing some diying I took pictures but I must not have taken them though I thought I did or they got lost somewhere which is weird because I don't delete pictures ever.
3. And as for the stencils. I don't have pictures other than the ones in the stencil post but some things about them...
a. So I don't think I mentioned this but the recommended time for the stencils to dry is overnight. I let them dry over night and peeled them off. They came off quite nicely (I would recommend using a plastic bag) but I found that some of the glue part had settled to the bottom. I let them dry a little bit upside down so that they were dry and that worked quite well.
b. I used them with a spray paint that I also made and is the later bit of this post and some decorative fabric. They became quite soggy and overall didn't hold up that well.
c. and when they had fully dried I noticed that some of the letters weren't as puffy and were more flat but those were the parts that held up the best
d. I've seen these type of letters used not as stencils but as letters as you glue onto something and I think that these might work okay for that.
e. I have also heard somewhere that you can make stencils with hot glue and freezer paper.
f. My overall verdict is that they worked okay as stencils as long as they are fully connected together and you're really careful with them.

Now onto a new DIY
A spray paint DIY:

Inspiration:
Found here via Pinterest
This homemade spray paint is really easy and you only need three things;
1. water
2. spray bottle
3. paint

You'll need a one to two ratio of paint to water. I just used a small travel sized misting bottle that I got from Target a while ago.  I tried to make a light purple color do I used mainly whiter with a few dots of purple. I used acrylic paint if anybody was wondering.
The you just shake it up and that's it. It's really that simple and easy. However I don't think this would be good for spray painting a chair or a piece of furniture but it is good for those little crafts where you want to have a dotty spray paint kind of look.

Here are some tests on fabric...



Thanks for reading...