How to make a cohesive framed art collage

Here’s a fun how to video where I show you how to create a cohesive framed art collage. What’s fun is you can customize the how-to using your favorite photos and favorite paint colors!

The ingredients you will need are:

Spray paint. In this case Krylon Indoor/Outdoor spray paint.

• Picture frames. In this case I used some Ikea picture frames. you can use vintage ones as well.

• Artwork. In addition to images I collected or cut out from books, i created a print using my anchor stencil and Stencil1 Spray Inks. I encourage you to make your own prints!

• Paper to work on.

• Hammer, nails, & a ruler to hang the art

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Keeper of the Gems…

Leslie Hall

When I see gorgeously tacky gem sweaters, like the bedazzling beauties that glam grannies wear,  one gal comes to mind – Leslie Hall. Leslie is simply high fashion in my book, rocking Tootsie style glasses, some fitted gold lame numbers and, of course, her signature gem sweaters.

Well, I emailed Leslie to be a guest artist in Stencil Style 101 to show how to make a gem sweater, and in this case, incorporating one of our stencils. She was all aboard! Check out our model Lucy channeling the gem sweater spirit of Leslie.

The sweater was made using fabric glue, a bag of gems, our chevron stencil and a vintage sweater. The full how to is in Stencil Style 101.

Make sure to check out the video that inspired all of this – Leslie and the LY’s – GEM SWEATER, with over a million views, you too will be addicted to her positive jam and then bedazzle all your wardrobe!

PS- She plays WEDDINGS!

Lucy rocking Leslie's gem sweater look!

Filling the stencil areas with gems

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Etsy Craft Party 2012

Last night I hosted at the 2012 Etsy Craft Party and it was IN-SANE! Over 800 rsvp’s! The party was held in DUMBO on the waterfront in a large outdoor tent and I brought along some New York meets Nautical Themed stencils – The NYC 4-pack, Anchor, Brooklyn Nautical, Travel 4-pack, and some stencils from Stencil Style 101. Attendees from ages 8-88 got into using Pebeo fabric paint with the stencils to customize bandanas and eco-friendly sandwich bags. We had three tables set up, then we added a fourth, then it became 6 tables and still people patiently waited to sit and create. Then people took to the floor! It was so rewarding to see people make patterns and combine stencil designs to all make one-of-a-kind items.  I sat under the Manhattan Bridge afterwards and drank a root beer and saw kids walking out with their new crafted bandanas, waving them like flags and I was so proud. Thanks to ETSY and all who came out and yes there will be more DIY Stencil1 events especially since Stencil Style 101 drops in October! STAY TUNED!

Put that stencil down, it’s cocktail time

Stencil1 and Tami

Last week, Stencil1 was a guest of the W Hotels, Intel and Roman Coppola. Well, sort of. We were invited by our friends at Think Pr who organized the launch of Four Stories: A Short Film Competition with Roman Coppola (loved Moonrise Kingdom!) and The Directors Bureau (love Geoff McFetridge!). The gist of the project is that Intel wanted something more than just a commercial to introduce their new Ultrabook laptop (strangely we didn’t see any Ultrabooks there), and instead of producing ads, they’re teaming with the W, Coppola and The Director’s Bureau, for this short film competition. Contestants enter scripts featuring the Ultrabook and a W hotel. Winning stories will be produced by the Directors Bureau. With locations in the Maldives and Mexico City, Stencil1 is putting our writing caps on.

The party was on a fifth-floor terrace of the W downtown with panoramic views of the new WTC and a steady bar. Drinks were creative and bizarre, served in jam jars and toothpaste tubes. And the Bosco was there snapping photo booth pics and projecting them on the side of the building. Stencil1 has been keeping such a low profile this summer finishing our new book, Stencil Style 101, due out in October), that a night out on the town was just what we needed.

Stencil Style 101

NEW!

Stencil Style 101 presents a whole new take on DIY fashion! Stencil maverick Ed Roth offers 25 stencils perfect for customizing clothing and accessories. Patterns like argyle, houndstooth, chevron, leopard print, and polka dots pair with iconic images such as feathers, buttons, records, and stars in endless combinations for personalized clothing that will make heads turn. The book includes 25 step-by-step projects for stenciling on leather handbags, sneakers, wool coats, bike helmets, bangles, and so much more! Best of all, the stencils can be reused—just wipe clean and store in the handy folder at the back.

Stencil1 meets Vecco – stenciling rugs!

You may have seen some of my posts of me stenciling rugs. Yes, rugs. Vecco has created a spray and stencil kit that allows you to easily customize your rugs and I am all about customization! I also created several rug stencil designs that will be available via Vecco. Watch the video here and you will see about the product,learn a little more about me,  and you’ll also see my dog Larry completely upstage me!

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