In order to make your home original andbeautiful, there are many ways. The decor of the wall surface using stencils, which are quite affordable, has gained considerable popularity. Dealing with them is not difficult. Thanks to the application, you can highlight any area without overloading the space. If you pay close attention to the selection of the ornament, you can emphasize the originality of the home, give the interior a certain mood. You can make such templates for painting walls with your own hands. It is very easy to learn how to work with them. 
Using a stencil on the walls, you can perform a variety of drawings.
What are the stencils?
Most often you can find monochrome stencils: for them one paint is enough, the drawing turns out quickly and easily. 
Using a stencil and putty, you can performthree-dimensional drawing. Multicolor stencils for painting help create on the wall drawings with a lot of shades. To do this, be patient and make a lot of effort, but the result is worth it. You will need to make not one, but several stencils, you need to create drawings on the wall, applying one stencil on the other. With the help of three-dimensional patterns for work, the pattern is applied using putty, the thickness of the ornament is 1-3 mm. Despite the fact that it is very easy to make such an ornament, it looks very unusual and produces a surprising impression. The antitravore is so named because of the way it works with it. It is necessary to paint the surface from outside the stencil, it turns out something akin to highlighting. To create a quiet, relaxed atmosphere in the bedroom, such stencils are ideal. Back to contents</a>
How to choose a stencil for the room?
The stencil should be chosen depending ongeneral style, purpose of the room. This is entirely a matter of taste for the owners, but general recommendations can be made. Be as careful as possible to the details: if you overload the space with small elements too much, the beautiful ornament will look like graffiti. 
In one room you should not combine too muchdifferent drawings. Laconism looks much better. In one room, you should apply to the walls only one type of ornament. Do not combine the geometric pattern and butterflies, flowers and trees. It is not necessary to depict very small details on the walls. They are not easy to paint, but from afar they will not look effective, to remind the spots of paint. There are no clear recommendations on where exactly a particular ornament will fit. Usually the decision to create a picture on the walls is made according to one's own preferences. Back to contents</a>
Stencil making
In building stores usually can offer a fairly extensive selection of stencils. But if you want, you can take on their own. To do this, you need to stock up the following: 
The clerical knife will help you in making the stencil.
- a picture that you would like to place on the wall;
- material for making the stencil itself (cardboard, film or plastic);
- knife stationery;
- a pencil or a marker;
- duct tape.
To begin with, it is necessary to determine whichThe pattern will be used to make the template. If you have the ability, you can draw it yourself. Such a picture is printed on the printer and in the future work with this image. The material for the stencil can serve as simple cardboard, dense paper or plastic. Well fit plastic folder-corners. To simplify the task, try contacting an advertising agency. They will help and create the image you need, and print it on any material. To transfer the material to the ornament, take the usual tracing paper. For plastic, the necessary figures are cut out of paper, and then fastened with adhesive tape or clips to a plastic base and drawn around the contour with a felt-tip pen. 
To paint on large stencilsuse roller. Sometimes the drawing needs additional design: you need to draw some lines, jumpers. When drawing a stencil on cardboard, paper, glue it on both sides with a self-adhesive transparent film or laminate. Otherwise, the paint will be absorbed into the paper during work, the lintels will twist, and the prepared template will not last for a long time. Carry out the cutting as carefully as possible, without burrs, unnecessary incisions, otherwise the pattern will look sloppy, with shaggy edges. For cutting, a knife or razor blade is used. Under the stencil, you need to put something smooth and hard, for example, a piece of glass, so that the lines are more even and clear. Back to contents</a>
How to perform wall drawings using a stencil?
Prepare a stencil for painting walls, glue forhim, roller or brush. Suitable aerosol or acrylic paint. Prepare the surface for staining. Clean it from dust, dirt, wash it if necessary. On the cleaned surface apply marking. If possible, use a level: so there is less danger of skewing the pattern or inflicting it incorrectly. Mark with the pencil the dots for the stencil, then fix it on the surface smoothly. 
The application of ink to the stencil can be done withusing a piece of paralon. Before you get to work, practice a little. To do this, you can use a piece of wallpaper or find a small section of the wall. Preliminary work helps you to practice a little in the application technique, and to choose the desired color of the ornament. Experienced masters try to execute several variants of the ornament in different shades to see what will best reflect the idea on the surface of the wall. To fix the stencil on the wall, it is better to use a special aerosol adhesive. From him there will not remain untidy traces, after the stencil was removed. Neither wallpaper nor paint will go away from the wall. The glue is evenly spread on the fabricated stencil, then pressed against the surface. For safety, you can additionally use an adhesive tape. It must be borne in mind that glue will not save glue from entering the stencil under the stencil. While painting through a stencil, remember that high-quality painting of walls does not tolerate fussiness. To do this, it is better to choose a paint based on acrylic: it will dry faster, acceptable for any surface. You can apply the paint with a sponge, brush or roller. At work, dial the coloring material little by little (this eliminates the danger of leaks). 
Working with small stencils to applypaint is recommended to use a brush. Working with the brush, you need to keep it perpendicular to the wall surface. The paint should be applied by packing, so neither villi nor coloring matter falls on the edge of the product. When staining with the use of a sponge, the first impressions must be made on a separate sheet of wallpaper. This will remove the excess paint. When using the roller, make sure that the paint distribution is as uniform as possible. Particular care should be taken with the corners, small details of the stencil. The roller is better to use for products with a large pattern. To paint using an aerosol dye mixture, try to hold the can at 30 cm from the wall. Sometimes a wall needs to be protected from smearing the paint behind the edges of the stencil. The drawing is saturated in several stages. When you get not very distinct borders, you need to draw them using a fine brush. To create a three-dimensional pattern on the wall, an acrylic putty is suitable. Apply it with a spatula. This is done layer by layer until the required thickness is obtained. To create a three-dimensional image, this is 1-3 mm. The putty clings 2-3 minutes after application, but it does not freeze completely. At this time, the stencil must be carefully removed so that the ornament is not damaged. Not exactly even layer, after the putty dries, you can even out using fine-grained sandpaper. The resulting pattern can be painted or shaded. After the end of the work, the stencil should be washed and dried. In most cases, it can be used more than once again. When working with a stencil, errors are sometimes made, which you can and do not do. For example, this is the displacement of the product or the stain of the coloring matter. To avoid this, you must first securely fix the stencil. Collect very little paint, when painting, perform accurate movements.
