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Playing with Stencils

Exploring Repetition, Pattern, and Personal Designs

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With 20 clever step-by-step projects and a stunning gallery of inspirational stencil designs from leading artists, Playing With Stencils will leave you ready to stencil just about anything. You will design floor tiles stencils inspired by German paper-cutting, you will stencil furniture, shower curtains, a floor cloth, planters, a wall canvas, wallpaper, and even a cake. You will make paper dolls with clothing, stencil beautiful "lace" stationery, stencil custom yardage to use for simple upholstery projects or pillows, make a concert poster, and even stencil a faux rag rug!

Stencil art has been around for years, often used for home decorating and for simple crafts, but has gained current interest and cache due it's guerilla use as street art (often making a political statement), and has become a worldwide subculture. Stencil graffiti has given stencil art a new sheen of coolness. This book will show you how to incorporate that look into your work, your accessories, and your home. You'll become inspired to use stencils in your journaling, in collage, on fabric, on totes, and in art pieces designed to be hung on walls—and you will know how to create fantastic custom designs.
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    • Booklist

      November 1, 2013
      The word stencil is typically associated with Americana or fussy intricate patterns. Here, Rice changes our attitude with 20 projects. She excels at explaining the basics, beginning with the actual design of the project, and she provides step-by-step color photographs to augment her written instructions. Her aesthetic viewpoint does not depend on one era or one style. Rather, she delights in gathering inspiration from the world, including German paper cutting (scherenschnitte), twentieth-century rustic antiques, mod and pop, Victorian lace, and many others. There's much to admire and choose from here, including shadow-box frames (with paper dolls inside), customer wallpaper, and a dancing-in-the-rain shower curtain. At the end, a rogue's gallerythat is, 10 featured stencilers and their backgrounds, with samples of workwrap up a motivating crafts book.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2013, American Library Association.)

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