{Vintage} Metal Stencils - My Restoration Hardware Knock-Off

Last month when I did a post
called, "Think Big", I showed
you a terrific industrial-looking
display of metal stencils
from Restoration Hardware that I love.

At $16 per letter,
I didn't love the price.
Getting the whole alphabet would
have cost $416 + tax and shipping!  I don't think so.
{did anyone else notice that the
the "K" appears to be upside down?}

I spotted a set of paper stencils
with a similar look at Staples for $3.99 -
That's more my price range.
These are Gothic font in a 2" height.
3" height were also available for $4.99.

They are almost a card stock thickness.
You get the whole alphabet, plus a few
extra often-used letters, as well as
the numbers 0 - 9.

Aside from displaying them all together,

there are tons of fun things to do with them.

Number Baskets & Bins

Add them to a vignette

Make a Banner

Use them as embellishment on 

old books with or without covers.

Play with them!

They were SO easy to make.

I had a can of spray paint in "aluminum" color,
which has a great metal look to it.
It took less than a 1 minute to
paint the whole sheet of stencils.

Left like this, they are a little too shiny,
so I rubbed on some Valspar antique glaze.

Now they resemble aged metal.

The glaze gets into the texture of the paper
and gives them "patina".

The longest part of this project
was separating the squares and punching
the insides of the letters out.

Fast, Fun & Frugal!

Blessings,

Angie

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