Earlier this week, we blogged lace furniture . Catching up on our Tivoed episodes of Bravo's While You Were Out, we sparked to an idea introduced to us by the designer Nadia Geller (who also hosts Bravo's Home Made Simple) of using lace as a stencil...
Inspiration: Lace As a Stencil
We'd try a lacy line around the ceiling, or at chair rail height, as a stand-in for molding on our flat walls. We can imagine a black lace border in an otherwise spare and modern bedroom. We'd use lace tape for the down and dirty way to creat a similar effect. Although we've blogged this tape's use to dress up our otherwise plain holiday packages, thanks go to reader halfpint for reminding us of its existence.
–Abby
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Debbie Travis did that once on a dresser and it looked fantastic.
view denise123's profile
Using lace as a stencil sounds messy.
view emhoop's profile
Except that lace tape is not cut out.
view patrick (the other one)'s profile
I don't know man, lace is kinda gross. But then again, I've lived with a boy so long that I've lost my ability to respond to anything girly.
view kitties!'s profile
The February 2007 issue of Martha Stewart has some great ideas for using lace, some of which include some nifty stenciling.
view spaceagemouse's profile
"I've lost my ability to respond to anything girly" but your screenname is "kitties!" Ha!
view patrick (the other one)'s profile
Is there a link to a use of lace as a stencil, perchance? It's an interesting idea, and I'm getting confused trying to envision whether the lace is really used as a stencil, which would give you a negative image of the lace, versus as something you trace around and then paint within the lines, versus as an inspiration to draw a stencil. (That's not a quibble over semantics, but an effort to figure out the ideal technique!)
Transparent stickers with lacy designs are a huge help in designing miniatures, so I'm not utterly shocked that it'd be tried in full-size.
view wende in phoenix's profile
I've used lace as a stencil- on a old series of collages where I created "placemats" back in the early 90's....using Spray Paint with the lace as a stencil on the "second surface" of ribbed Warp-O-Mat shelf lining material.....
Thats all the secrets I'm giving out today....
view ManofSteel's profile
I'm also interested in creating a positive stencil--not from lace, but from the festive papel picados used as banners in Mexico. Haven't figured it out, yet..
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