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The Paint-A-Pillow Kit Allows You To Create Custom Accent Pillows

Happy hump day, my craft loving friends. Today we're going to depart from our typical Cutting Edge Stencils news to bring you a special guest post from our sister company, Paint-A-Pillow. Cutting Edge Stencils helped introduce Paint-A-Pillow not too long ago. But to give you a quick refresher, it's an innovative stenciling kit that will allow you to create your own designer accent pillows in a snap. It's easy, fun and super fast! We'd like to welcome Natalie, the clever crafter behind the blog Doodlecraft. Natalie has stenciled several fabric projects using Cutting Edge Stencils, so she jumped at the chance to test out Paint-A-Pillow. Natalie selected a Moroccan inspired pattern, the Casablanca Paint-A-Pillow kit. She also picked out lots of fun paint colors and pillow embellishments. Here are her stenciled pillows: So pretty! With such clean lines and a pattern wrapped to the edge, we bet you would never guess these were stenciled. Well we're going to walk you through how you could easily recreate the pretty pink pillow. Natalie opened her box and was ready to go. The pillow kit arrives with everything you need to complete one gorgeous accent pillow. That center box is a took kit that holds all the handy dandy supplies. Simply lift it out and start stenciling. The kit also comes with one free Premium Soft Textile Paint by Jacquard. Since Natalie had a couple of pillow crafts in mind, she purchased additional colors for $3.95. She commented, "The paint is high quality textile paint and dries soft and comfortable!" Natalie set up her supplies in her craft space. She decided to use the dense foam roller to paint the pattern in a hot pink hue. She poured the paint onto a foam tray and then lightly coated the roller. Be careful not to overload the roller with paint. Roll off the excess paint onto a folded paper towel until the roller looks almost dry. The key to stenciling is using as little paint as possible. Too much paint will cause the design to bleed and smudge. Once the roller was evenly coated, she was ready to paint the fabric. Natalie went back and forth with the roller over the stencil until the fabric was a pretty shade of pink. She said, "It's so easy and really fast!" Once the entire pillow cover was painted, Natalie peeled back the metal tabs holding the stencil in place and removed the stencil. Then she cleaned the stencil in a tub. The painted pillow dried quickly and Natalie was ready to embellish it! She had selected pink suede tassels. Natalie used embroidery floss and a darning needle to attach the tassels. She looped the thread through the end of the tassel and then used the need to pull the ends of the thread through the corner of the pillow. Once both ends were pulled through, she tied a knot to hold them in place. Natalie attached four tassels and she was ready to insert her pillow into the cover. Ready to see how her stenciled pillow cover turned out? Gorgeous, right? Natalie's Casablanca stenciled pillow has a lovely hand-crafted feel. Natalie says, "I love how bright and fun it turned out!" Natalie also used her kit to create a second pillow cover. To see exactly how she did it, be sure to visit her blog for the detailed tutorial. Also, Doodlecraft is giving away one free Paint-A-Pillow kit ($45 value). Hop over and enter!

Tell us: What color would you paint this Moroccan pattern? Leave us a comment below!

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Thanks for reading, and happy stenciling! Michelle and the Paint-A-Pillow Team