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Stencil Your Kitchen Cabinet Doors or

Bathroom Vanity with Embossed Designs

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Raise your level of design to include touches of luxury and refinement with embossed stencil designs on plaster. Consider a raised plaster pattern adorning the walls of your bathroom or placed “just so” on your focal point cabinets in your kitchen. For a truly memorable and classic look, add subtle color washing techniques to the embossment technique. Or, color washing can be added as a background before you apply your raised relief for addtional color and dimension.

Nurture your creative side by stenciling your bathroom and kitchen walls or cabinets with the help of good quality stencils. Also, plaster stencils are called stencils for raised relief or stencils for embossing. These stencils are one overlay and made of thicker Mylar, especially made to use as a tool for plastering methods or durable enough for repeated paint applications.

You can also choose a design that covers the majority of your cabinet doors such as a small scale all-over pattern or a simple scrolling design that fits in the corners, a center fleur-de-lis design, a small scale border along the edge of the moldings, etc. You have many possibilities when choosing stencils design, placement and color scheme.

Stenciling with plaster is just as easy as using the traditional painting techniques.

Materials:

• One Quart Primer
• One Quart Satin Acrylic Paint
• One Quart Satin Finish Clear Acrylic
• Joint Compound
• Stencil Design
• 150-, 220-Grit Sandpaper
• Measuring Tool
• Paint Tray for Primer, Base coat and Topcoat
• Poster board for testing your colors and technique.
• Clean cloths for cleaning and removing dust.

Easy Instructions for Stenciling Your Cabinet Doors with Joint Compound:

1. Before painting, remove all cabinet hardware, clean and sand. Next, prepare your background by priming your cabinet door with primer and 100 % acrylic base coat color. Let dry over night.
2. Center Your Stencil Design in the middle of the cabinet door. Be sure to place your stencil design pointing up and always facing the same direction. With masking tape and or stencil spray adhesive adhere your stencil to the cabinet door.
3. Using your spatula tool or putty knife; spread a thin layer of joint compound in all of the stencil openings.
4. Carefully lift one corner of the stencil design away from the cabinet door. Let plaster dry. Remember to wash your stencil before applying the stencil to the next door.
5. For durability, top coating with a sealer is always necessary as soon as your joint compound is completely dry. You can topcoat with an acrylic clear sealer or acrylic wall paint to seal the design.
6. For a raised white design, apply clear sealer directly over the joint compound. Depending on the look you would like to achieve. You can always practice on a sample board ahead of time. Consider your design "complete" after the clear sealer is applied.

Optional: If you'd like to make your design look sculptural and blend with the base color; paint your design with your original base coat color. Once base coat is dry, with very little paint, stencil over your design in a contrasting, lighter or darker color to either partly highlight, or shadow the design. No matter your choice, you will have an artistic hand made piece that you spent very little time or money on!

Optional Multi-Color Technique:

• Stencil paint (2 colors)
• Stencil Brushes

Updating your cabinet doors will include many choices such as color, placement of design and materials. Meaning, the possibilities for artistic decoration are endless. You may choose metallic paint, or your original base color plus multi-color highlights or shadowing techniques. Stencil designs may be placed in the middle of each cabinet door, a small scale border edging the molding, even range hoods, pantry doors, drawers and side panels may be decorated with stencil patterns.



Three Stenciling Techniques


There are many different stenciling techniques. For this article, we will mention the dry brush method using a stencil brush. Whatever your design style, you will be sure to find the method best suited to your tastes. The most popular type of stenciling techniques:

• Stenciled Cabinet Doors by applying paint with stencil brush.
• Stenciled Cabinet Doors by applying paint with foam roller.
• Stenciled Cabinet Doors by applying plaster with spatula.

Instructions to Hand Paint Cabinets

Loading and offloading your stencil brush


Figure W



While always holding the brush straight up and down, dip the brush into the paint. This will allow for even loading of the paint. In a very firm and circular motion, blot off excess paint by rubbing the tip of the brush evenly on Viva paper towels. (Shown in Figure W.)



You must have a very dry brush in order to achieve translucent paint effects. After repeating this step 2 or 3 times, you will notice most of the paint is rubbed onto the paper towels. If you pass your brush quickly over your hand, it will feel dry. You may begin to stencil with your first color.


Stenciling Technique


Figure X


To get a translucent paint effect, you may begin stenciling by first concentrating paint around the outer edges of the cutout areas, constantly moving the brush in small firm circles as you continue around each cut out of the design. If you would like the effect to be as translucent as possible, the majority of the stencil brush should be on the Mylar. (Shown in Figure X.)


As you move toward the center of the cut out area, use a lighter pressure and a dryer brush. By fading out the color from the edge to the center, you will give shape to the design.

Practice this technique on a sample board first. You will learn to adjust your pressure and placement of the brush to achieve the depth of color you are after.


Figure Y



Each time you reload the brush you must go through the same process of loading and off-loading the paint onto the Viva paper towels. As you move along, make sure you check under the stencil in order to see accurately and also to maintain a consistent print.

As you lift one edge of the stencil you will check to see the color is strongest at the outer edges and more transparent toward the center. (Shown in Figure Y.) No paint should bleed under the stencil.


Figure Z



If your stencil brush is built up with paint or is too dry, swipe your brush across a moist sponge. Then rub excess moisture on Viva paper towels. (Figure Z)


Go to Michaels Arts and Crafts Store to pick up your stencil paint and brush supplies. Create faux finish background paint techniques with Benjamin Moore or Behr products.


Designer’s Historical Stencil patterns include wall borders, friezes, frames, allover damask stencil patterns, and ceiling pieces such as medallions, corner pieces, centerpieces, and frames. Wall and ceiling stencil patterns are frequently framed by bands and lines, and combined with freehand painting techniques.




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While stippling the acrylic paint on to the substrate (wall, ceiling, floor, furnishings) through the stencil is a relatively easy process to learn, the production of the stencil itself demands a degree of design skill. The countless combinations of symbols, forms, and paint colors with this stencil technique means that your only limit is your imagination!

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