Matt wants to decorate the baby's room with mini's (the car). Can't find any borders with mini's on so decided stenciling/painting them is probably the way to go. Only I don't really know what do with stenciling. I've googled Mini stencil but nothing really coming up. Can I make my own stencil? How hard is that? Where do I start? I'm awful at crafty things

Any ideas/advice welcome please..

Its REALLY easy!!!

I did it in my bedroom when I was about 14!

You can do multi colours too which might work well with a mini

Go to a craft shop (hobby craft is good)

The best stuff to use is plastic, like the kind that folder dividers are made of, you know flexible but firm?
Then get a craft knife and use that to cut out for example the main body of the car which will be one colour.

Then another for the wheels, and another for the glass?

You can do it all on one, but doing 3 means you can overlap/get colours right next to each other - whereas doing it all on one peice of plastic means you have to have a peice of plastic between - which is trickier to paint!

So you have your templates - then get tester pots for the colours, and you need stiff brushes - stippler or something its called

Draw faint pencil marks to mark out where to top of each car goes etc

Then place the template in the right place and can either hold it or stick it with masking tape.

get a small amount of paint on the brush and dab it gently, always moving inwards from the plastic to the middle

Move along the wall and do the next, then when its dry do the next colour

Its really quite quick and looks nice- and you'll be pleased you did it!

I did a 3 colour one round the top of my room and it was fab!

Thanks Lisa, seems simple enough I think i can do it.

Not sure if this is any good? http://www.thestencilstudio.com/mini-car-stencil-749-p.asp its avery simple one that just uses one colour, nice though!

Also a guide some faqs http://www.thestencilstudio.com/faqs-74-c.asp#can_you_cut_my_own_stencil_designs

and how to do it http://www.thestencilstudio.com/how-to-stencil-1-2-3-107-c.asp

Aww thanks. I'd seen that stencil but wasn't sure as it's coming out of the pic, whereas we were thinking about having them driving around the room so thinking a side pic would be best.

I'm thinking something like this..


Does that seem do-able?

Thanks for the how-to links, have saved them.

Yeh thats doable, its good!

I'd do the main red first, then the white and then the black

thats what i was thinking. i reckon it should turn out ok. will make up the stencils soon. thanks for all your help