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Make your Christmas craft glimmer and glow! Here is an easy and fun stencil tutorial that is perfect for decorating your home with metallic magic around the holidays. It makes a great DIY gift too! This gold leaf wall art ...

I’m baaaacccck! I have missed posting for Paint+Pattern while I took time off to get a totally new shoulder. Yup, bionic I am. For a few more weeks, I am working on simpler projects while I heal. I love this ...

See how to stencil shimmering spots of gold metallic foil to create one of a kind wall art. Our master bedroom furniture is Danish Modern: a platform bed and two large dressers. All very angular. This year I refinished the ...

In a previous post, I stenciled the handmade headboard in our guest bedroom. This post is focused on stenciling a large piece of tempered glass for the same room that I found at a used fixture store. I think it ...

You can turn any picture frame into an antiqued mirror that looks like it was discovered in a dusty corner of the back of a shop in Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar. This project is easier and faster than it appears. In ...

Today’s How to Stencil post features what may be one of my favorite stencil finishes of all time-a stenciled texture finish that replicates the look of faded damask fabric. And if YOU have some time, you too can recreate it ...

One of the lingering memories from our Tuscan vacation years ago, beyond the wine and food, was the terra cotta color everywhere. It was on the roofs. It was on the bricks. It ran along the village roads. And of ...

Stenciling with a single color of paint can be fast and easy, but we have an easy way for you to take your wall stencil projects up a notch by adding soft layers of metallic color with our Royal Stencil Creme ...

Recently in honor of Paint+Pattern’s celebration of France I posted about the gilding of the Palace of Versailles that had  eye-popping over-the-top gold everywhere. Glorious eye candy for us regular folks. But there’s no reason why we can’t enjoy an easy gilding ...

How much do we, DIY’ers love discovering a new product that gets our creative juices flowing! It’s just so addictive! Recently I read a DIY post on Paint + Pattern that used a product called Discharge Paste. Basically, this paste ...