Can I Stencil On That?

Make and use a cake stencil
Stenciling onto a cake can make a somewhat ordinary dessert extraordinary. Powdered sugar on a chocolate cake The highest contrast combination that’s easily made with ingredients you probably already have around the house is powdered white sugar on a chocolate cake. I’ve found that increasing the moisture of the chocolate cake helps it to look…
Stencil Your Car with Spray Chalk
Spray paint a car? That sounds like it could get you into a lot of trouble. But use a stencil with spray chalk, and you’ll find you can create neat, bright markings that last for a couple of months and that gradually weather away. Spray chalk is used on non-porous surfaces for temporary marking. As…
Use Midjourney to Make a Repeating Wall or Floor Stencil
You’ve seen high-impact rooms with repeating patterns stenciled on the wall or floor. We generated some repeating interior wall stencils together some time ago. But what about making your own custom pattern? I made a dozen custom patterns in an hour or so with MidJourney version 5. (Remember, we used the AI to generate stencil-ready…
How to Make a Stencil Card
Making a stencil card is easy and fun if you have a craft cutter like a Cricut Explore series. But before we walk you through the steps to create a stencil card, have a look at what the final project could look like. What you’ll need You’ll need a craft cutter, like a Cricut Explore,…
Holiday cards made with stencils are fast, fun, and infinitely personalizable
This season (okay, every season) we make holiday cards using a smaller sized stencil. This time we made them to fit into an 6″ x 9″ envelope. We like to print on the front and write on the back, so that it’s easy for our loved ones to just plop the card onto the fridge…
Turn Bricks into Trophies with an Award Stencil
Although you can customize and individualize stencils, one thing they’re great at is making a bunch of the same thing. Each year, Alma Alter Theater turns some bricks into enticing awards for their Alteri theater awards ceremony (which was kind of inspired by the Oscar Awards ceremony). This year, we took a break from the…
How to Make a Coffee Stencil from a Logo
Can you make a beautiful latte? Are you an expert at frothing milk? Then you can definitely make and use a coffee stencil to raise your barista game to a new level. A coffee stencil is a food-safe plastic stencil that you use to sprinkle cinnamon or cocoa or nutmeg onto foamed milk, recreating an…
How to Paint any Stencil on Any Surface Using Just Black and White Paint
Today’s Bay Stencil Challenge was to paint any stencil on any surface using just black and white paint. So we chose some color stencils like Wonder Woman and the Police Call Box, and we put them up on light- and dark-colored surfaces, as well as a bright red surface. We practiced with these stencils, learned…
How To Work With the Surface Color
You may remember that we often want to leave out one of the layers of a stencil in order to let the surface show through and to keep our stencil work from looking like a giant post card. In this post we ask the question, ‘How do you work with the surface you have?’ We’ll…