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A Little Help

December 5, 2011 //  by Paint It!

So what I basically did for the Peacock and Butterfly room was to stencil the silhouette shapes of the peacocks, vines and leaves. I created all the large silhouette stencils for this room myself because all I needed was the basic shape, no details.

Here are the 3 peacock silhouette shapes I used:

Silhouette 1 Silhouette2
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After I had the silhouettes on all of the walls, I knew just who to call to add the details!

Chris 1Chris Smith to the rescue! Chris spent 3 painstakingly days embellishing all the peacocks and leaves! Using a variety of small scale stencils and freehand techniques, the flat silhouettes came to life.

Chris 2

Don’t you just love the blue tape all over her top?

Here are some of her creations:

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Lastly, I added the gems. I went all out for the peacocks, but because I had already put about 1,000 (literally!) gems on the butterflies, I decided not to gem the individual leaves. I just added sets of 3 gems to each stem. I ordered 1 gross (1,440) of each of the three colored gems I would use for both of these rooms, so that’s 4,320 gems! In the end, I probably had 500 left.

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I loved the way this room turned out and truly appreciated Chris’s patience with all the detailing!

Smith:leoTomorrow we will look at the Tropical Room.

Category: Kid Spaces, Metallics, StencilsTag: embellishments, gems, kids rooms, peacocks, stencils

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  1. Chris smith

    December 8, 2011 at 4:35 pm

    Thanks Carol. It’s always a joy to work with you.

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    February 6, 2012 at 8:24 am

    Beautiful paintings on wall. I love this. It’ really very beautiful task and creative idea to do such inspirational work here. I like studying your posts. Stay up the good work!

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