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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
homemade stencils?
I'm hoping to paint waves on the wall of the baby's room, and I have a design to do so, but I'm stuck on what to use to make the stencil itself out of... what material could I use to do this?
I think I saw special stencil making material online, but I'd rather make one at home and save the hassle and wait and money to buy one.
Re: homemade stencils?
My concern with plain cardboard is that the paint might soak into it and make a mess when I'm moving from one "wave" to the next... but, if I can make a long enough piece, that just might do the trick...
My Wedding Bio! Not updated in a LONG time!
This stencil film isn't terribly expensive (although I didn't check the shipping costs): http://www.dickblick.com/products/grafix-stencil-film/
With cardboard I would worry about the paint bleeding and also the cardboard warping when wet -- the key to using a stencil properly is that is must be perfectly flat on the surface to be painted.
I'm trying to think of some other lightweight plastic material like stencil film but my mind is blank.
I'm not sure if you can buy just a few sheets of this or if it is even easy to find these days, but maybe the plastic sheets we used to use to write on projectors. I remember getting some of that when I was in college. It's pretty sturdy, would wipe clean and would be easy to cut. Oh and from a search on amazon, the technical term is transparencies. It's been a while
http://www.amazon.com/TRANSPARENCY-ARKWRIGHT-OUTSTANDING-PRESENTATION-UPC609722846707/dp/B003UPHSNY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1300411951&sr=8-1