Stencil1 News

That’s right, it’s time for to celebrate the launch of Stencil 101 Decor, our second book published by Chronicle Books! I will do a demo while you eat stenciled edibles, drink from the bar, and stencil on cards or grasscloth to make your own art print! I’ll be signing books, this is a great holiday gift for the creative and decorative people in your life! Hope to see you there!

Saturday, December 5, 2009, 4-6pm

powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, Brooklyn

Ed Roth and Stencil1 offer a DIY event for all ages with stencils from Stencil 101 and Stencil 101 Décor.

RSVP to rsvp@powerhousearena.com

and be sure to look at our Events Calendar to the left for events in other cities!

I took a trip to Muji the other day to buy some plain items that I could stencil. I found these simple pillow cases that I thought would be perfect to stencil a design onto from the new book. I am not sure why I am on such a turquoise kick, but I used it again to paint with! For this project, all you need is fabric paint, a stencil brush, a stencil and a pillowcase.  I stenciled a design on each side just to test both out and voila! Check it out.

I felt it important to show you just what you get in the new book so here are some quick pics of the stencils pulled out of their folder. You get 10 precut plastic stencils(in addition to the awesome pictures and how-to’s ! ). Each stencil is large, 11 inches by 11 inches. The black and white pages you see are just inserts between the stencils for you to see the designs. I am about to get all these stencils covered in paint, I am making 200 tote bags! I’ll show that next post. Hope that helps!

I was contacted by the lovely gals who make up Design*Sponge recently to be considered for their sneak peek section of the site. This is where they show you the design interiors of designers. How flattering to be asked! Well, I immediately started cleaning! Luckily, over the last year or two, I have been getting rid of a lot of junk or at least storing it in my studio. Well, I shot the place and pointed out some of my favorite objets and added in a little bit of my design philosophy. They took that and made this wonderful article of it, I hope you like it. Thank you Design*Sponge!

Hexagon stencil used on wall at home

Tweet! tweet! Are you all about Twitter? It’s fun and addictive so we are having a contest that is all about it.  We are giving away an advanced, signed copy of Stencil 101 Decor! Well, to start, STEP1 is you can follow me, Ed Roth, on Twitter @edstencil1.  Now to win, make sure to do STEP 2 -  send me a tweet “@edstencil1:  I love Stencil101 Decor…” and add whatever else you’d like to the end of the sentence. I’ll pick a winner in a week so please tweet before Friday Nov 13th!  Also, make sure to check out our events calendar to the left for book launch events and leave me a post here just for fun!  Can’t wait to share a copy with the lucky winner! Thanks, Ed