Today, making stencils is popular due to the possibility of updating the interior and creating interesting crafts. You can make an original thing from improvised materials with your own hands without a lot of money. As for the design of the template, here you can use both ordinary acrylic paints and additional decorative elements to create beautiful effects.
The basis can be taken as cardboard or part of a sheet of chipboard, or plain paper, after gluing several sheets together to give the form a stiffness.
Application options
You can make a stencil for letters with your own hands for modern needlework techniques, starting with patchwork and ending with decorating different surfaces. This will help emphasize originality and add style to the product.
- In handmade products, letter patterns are used for aesthetics and beautiful appearance. They can decorate a postcard, a picture, a finished product, make a painting on a homogeneous surface.
- An alphabet stencil can be used to decorate the walls of a children's room or class in elementary school. On the walls with the help of paint, you can put numbers, words, individual quotes.
- Textile application will emphasize the design features of the house. Often, stylists use stencils to create unique things and accessories.
- In cooking, DIY stencils are used for name cakes and baking decorations.
You can use the template in different ways, the main thing is to like the result of the work and create atmospheric atmosphere on the surface of the product. Even a beginner needlewoman can make a stencil for letters with her own hands.
Choosing a stencil base
The result and how the element will be combined with the rest of the work depends on the drawing. Beautiful Russian letters for the stencil can be created by printing fonts from a text document.
For the process, you can print several styles and, at run time, simply combine different letters, creating the original inscription. Due to the presence of different styles and formats, the stencil of the alphabet will look diverse and at the same time holistic.
It is advisable to select several sketches, perform a draft, and only then transfer the print to the finished template for cutting. When choosing holistic labels, you need to pay attention to the distance between the elements. It should be enough for cutting. Letters written in one piece are difficult to turn into a ready-made template, but if you practice first with simple motives, then over time there will be no problems in the process of making the foundation.
Making a template from plastic
A paper folder is an ideal option to make a stencil for letters with your own hands. The material is dense, well processed and cut. The template can be used several times.
For manufacturing you will need:
- Printout of letters or drawing of ready-made words.
- Scissors and stationery knife for cutting parts and small items.
- Masking tape.
- Plastic folder for paper.
Inside the folder you need to put a sheet with a picture, press it to the surface so that all the details are clearly visible. Then fix the paper. Using a clerical knife, gently press down the surface of the folder and cut out the outline of the picture on plastic.
Cut parts must be separated, and irregularities trimmed with scissors. Remove the adhesive tape from the paper and peel the sheet from the folder. The stencil is ready, it can be used to create beautiful inscriptions and original elements.
In a similar way, you can make a stencil for letters from paper with your own hands. But here instead of lining it is necessary to use the technique of interrupting elements on the surface or printing on a sheet. After that, with the help of a clerical knife, the necessary manipulations are performed.
Tips & Tricks
In use, stencil elements can absorb coloring agents. To prevent this from happening, the surface (if the base is made of plastic) can be covered with masking tape. DIY stencil templates for letters require updating over time.
To create a similar pattern, you can use the old stencil and transfer it to a new surface. In the process of using adhesive mixtures to fix the pattern, the stencil must be quickly separated from the surface so that its parts do not adhere to another base.