DIY Stenciled Wooden Plaque

 

 

We have had our gallery wall in our house for the last couple years, and I love it.  Recently a picture was knocked off by mistake, and to me it was a sign that it was time to change up the wall.  Different textures and art add interest and versatility to a gallery wall,  and I decided to stencil a wood plaque to add something new to ours.

I used this stencil and the paints that I purchased at Michaels.

 

 

It seems that doing projects with pieces of wood is all the rage right now, and this project fits right in.

 

 

I decided to tape off the outer edge of the plaque so I wouldn’t get paint on that section.  It would have been fine if I did, but I chose to just stencil on the smooth section of the wood.

 

The next step was to follow the directions and put some of the stencil adhesive on the stencil.  It dries and becomes a little tacky, but I could place it on the section I wanted to stencil and know it would stay.

 

I did the top section and removed the stencil and moved it down to the the other half of the piece of wood.

 

 

The fun thing about this stencil  is that it had three different stencils in the pack,  and I was able to  layer the stencils on top of each other.  I decided to put a bird on this piece of wood.  Again, I used the adhesive for this stencil and painted it a fun aqua pearl color.

 

 

Here is the bird.  However I am going to layer the next stencil on top to give more detail.

 

I was nervous at first using this stencil, but it all worked out.  I was able to add some detail to my bird.

 

 

I love how this easy stencil project now fills the empty space on our gallery wall.

 

 

Cheers!