Feature Friday: Green Mountain BoHo Tea Towels

Happy Friday! We've got another splendid feature from Cindy at Green Mountain BoHo! She's been making tea towels with some of our most popular designs. Check them out!

 Among the 9 million resolutions I made this New Year's, one of them was to create less paper waste.  So I am a towel fanatic and a firm believer in the fact that you can never have too many kitchen towels.  Also, I have a baby.  In other words, constant mess!  These are perfect. 

 

Here's two more she did.  One is Lucas Moller, who is a frequent flyer here on Maisondestencils.  The other is Chateau Chambord, which has not yet been featured on the blog.  Aren't these pretty?  I'd almost feel bad mopping up something with them!

 

Cindy has an Etsy store you can check out here where all these tea towels are available for sale.  She also has a facebook page you can check out.

If you'd like to check out the stencils used, click the following links:

Paris No 13
Bee with Laurel Wreath
Chateau de Cheverny
Lucas Moller
Chateau de Chambord

Our thanks to Cindy at Green Mountain Boho for use of her images.  If you'd like to have an item you created with Maisondestencils' stencil featured on our website, drop me a line here.  I'd love to feature you!

Be sure and check back tomorrow, we have a big news post rolling out with some exciting new features!

Feature Friday: French Book Cart

We have a very elegant feature for you today.  Blogger Little Miss Maggie shares this amazing book cart she transformed from a seriously uninspiring garage sale find.  First the finished product.

I love that this piece is black!  We see a lot of pastels here on Maisondestencils.  Don't get me wrong, they're great, but there is something timeless and classy about black.  Here's a before picture so you can see just how big a transformation this little piece of furniture made.

Super awesome Grateful Dead stickers at the bottom.  Not!  Maggie started by sending those stickers back to Jerry Garcia and then painted the whole piece Canyon Black from the Rustoleum American Accents line.

Her next step was stenciling our popular Hotel De L'Avenir stencil using acrylic ivory paint.   For a more aged look, Maggie hand painted with raw umber on top of the stencil to give a varied, uneven tone to the letters and line work.

Hotel De L'Avenir is a big stencil (12x18) and didn't completely fit on the cart.  So she used the extra text to jazz up the sides of the shelves.  Great idea!

It's always good to remember that you are not married to what we put on a stencil.  You can use as much or little of it for a stenciling project as suits your need.  But we're happy to do customs if you do need something wild and crazy.  :)

She finished up the cart by sanding and sealing with Valspar Clear Flat Spray.  It looks fabulous!

You can check out Little Miss Maggie's original blog post here.  Her whole blog is terrific, do check it out.  You can also check out the Hotel De L'Avenir stencil in our Feedsack category.

Thanks so much to Maggie for the feature this week.  Don't forget, if you've got a stenciling project you'd like featured, we're only an email away.

Etspiration Wednesday: Crowns

Sorry for the late post, we spent all yesterday traveling! Woohoo for babies and airports.

Our Etspiration this week is all about crowns and regal imagery. Crowns seem to be a mainstay in interior design and jewelry (they're perennially popular on Maisondestencils), and it was tough to choose from so many great items on Etsy.

Get royal and check our latest Etspiration images!

1A: French Crown Necklace Image Courtesy Candies64
1B: Queen Silhouette Stencil Image Courtesy Maisondestencils
1C: Place Cards with Crown Image Courtesy BagofTags

2A: Queen's Jubilee Tea Towel Image Courtesy TaylorsType
2B: Jean - Luc Beauvais Stencil Image Courtesy Maisondestencils
2C: Queen Tote Bag Image Courtesy demontoya

3A: Necklace Framed Prince Bird Pendant Image Courtesy ALostFeatherNY
3B: Marie Among The Roses Tote Image Courtesy RuPiperDesigns
3C: Wax Seal Crown Pendant Image Courtesy RQPStudio
3D: French Postage Stamp Stencil Image Courtesy Maisondestencils

4A: Handpainted Groom Pillow Image Courtesy Nanaandmecreations
4B: Family and Friends Stencil Image Courtesy Maisondestencils
4C: Crown and Crest Burlap Pillow Image Courtesy ForeverLovelyDesign
4D: Handpainted Bride Pillow Image Courtesy Nanaandmecreations


Thanks to all our wonderful designers for use of their images! See you Friday!