Stencil
a Summer Fireplace Shield
Materials
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Mylar
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Craft
knife
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Dummy
board
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3
oval filbert stencil brushes
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2
ounces all-purpose medium
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Red
Earth, Hooker’s Green, and
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Turner’s
Yellow paints (or colors of
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your
choice)
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Zinsser
wood primer latex sealer
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120-grit
sandpaper
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Tack
cloth
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1
can of flat black spray paint
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1
quart of flat latex paint for
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background
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1
inexpensive bristle brush (to apply
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sealer)
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1
better brush for background color
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1
can of craft adhesive spray
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Fine-point
indelible black pen
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Spray
polyurethane in satin finish
Sources
Cabinetmaker
Sandra Pearl Pomeroy, whose original furniture designs range from traditional
to contemporary, built the dummy board for this project. The cost for a precut
board with support brace is $80 plus shipping. Order it directly from:
Sandra
Pearl Pomeroy
PO
Box 596
Quechee,
VT 05059
802-295-7973
sandraprl@aol.com
Polly
Forcier established her business, MB Historic Décor, in 1994. She offers an
extensive collection of historic stencils for walls and floors as well as
patterns for Rufus Porter murals. The vase of flowers stencil, oval filbert
brushes, all-purpose medium, and stencil paints for this project can be
purchased from her directly from the following address:
MB
Historic Décor
PO
Box 1255
Quechee,
VT 05059
888.649.1790
or 802.295.8001 (outside the US)
www.mbhistoricdecor.com
Patterns
You
can download full-size scans of the original stencil patterns by clicking on
the links before. Caution! These are full-size TIF files and each one is about
five megabytes. If you do not have a high-speed Internet connection, these
will take hours to download.
