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How to fill in the blanks with rubber stamps:
Is there a bare wall in your bathroom? Is the wall bare so that you
cannot find a theme to match? Have you considered wallpaper, yet nothing
seems to fit? Why not put your creativeness and ideas to work and make your
own wallpaper design. I bet no one else will have one like it.
Before you get started, decide what you really want to put on a bare wall
you are trying to cover. Make sure you are creative and try to use the same
theme you are working with, such as birds. This can be done in any room of
you house where you have a wall and want to do something different.
You’ll need to shop around and find some rubber stamps or stencils; you can
even draw the design if you want. The rubber stamps, stencils, all of these
things can be found in the craft department of most department stores. Be
sure to grab the brushes you’ll need; the variety pack of brushes is nice
since you have different sizes and styles all in one.
Usually in the same department you’ll be able to purchase the paints you’ll
need, use ceramic paint, it comes in many colors and shades to accommodate
your needs. Clean up is a breeze just using warm and soapy water to clean up
the paint to change from one color to another is all you need to do.
Whenever doing a project like this, you should do it twice to be sure you
have the right design and colors that you’ll want to use. If you need more
stamps or stencils just go to another department store, wherever craft
supplies are sold, they all sell different ones. Cover the area that you are
going to stamp on with freezer paper. The paper you can buy wherever
groceries are sold, usually in the meat department. When putting up the
paper just stick a thumbtack on the corner and a few places in the center to
hold it in place.
Now you are ready to make the first copy of your wall project. Go for it and
start stamping away.
It is hard to place everything so they are exactly spaced but don’t worry
you can fill in those empty spots later. When going from one color to
another, if the colors are going to touch make sure that the first color
completely dries? When finished, let dry and look at it for a couple of days
to make sure this is what you want. Then go on to the permanent design.
How to remove the paper?
Now you’re ready to do your wall, taking down the paper carefully so you
don’t forget your color combinations. Keep it for a pattern to work from.
Remember no two projects are the same. That’s the fun of the whole project;
no one will have one like it.
Paint your wall in the color of your choice making it a light color to match
the colors you are going to stamp on it. Using your pattern, you have set
aside; start stamping again on the original wall. Again, make sure each
color is completely dry before stamping another color so they do not touch
each other. If do not like the pattern you’ve done just fill in the spaces
with something else or add a new color somewhere. No matter how many times
you use this technique you’ll never be able to do two projects the same.
This is the tactic known as creativity.
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