Black and White Stenciled Plate

You know that I LOVE crafty home magazines and I was so excited when the newest issue of Do It Yourself came out last week.

As you can see, one of the focuses of the issues is painting all sorts of fun things. There are some really cute ideas and one of them is to paint plates and hang them on the wall. If you look closely at the cover photo, you can see two bright pink plates that are painted and hanging on the wall next to the lamp.

I think that they are so cute! After reading more, I found that they gave the plate a base coat of pink spray paint, and then used a stencil to add the white details. I love the concept so I decided to give it a try. I headed over to the Dollar Tree to see what goodies I could find, and as always was pleasantly surprised. I got a great plate to use and a set of stencils!


Here is what I used to make my own stenciled plate:

1) white plate ($1.00)

2) flower stencil ($1.00)

3) black spray paint ($4.00ish)

4) white acrylic craft paint ($1.97)

5) sponge paint brush (free-I already had this)

I started by giving my plate a black base coat with black gloss spray paint.



Next, I cut out one of the flowers on this stencil and began using the white paint to stencil the flowers on in a pattern.


I did make a few mistakes and luckily I was able to correct most of them because I used acrylic paint. I was able to wet a q-tip and correct my mistakes. I'm not sure where I'm going to hang it yet, but I think it turned out super cute! I think I will make a whole set using the different flowers on my stencil. How fun!