Route 66 Stencils

Three years ago, and three months into my experience with blogging, there was this challenge over at Debbie-Doos blog called the Magazine Copycat Challenge.

I loved it.

The idea was to find something out of a magazine to be duplicated.

Around the same time, Donna from Funky Junk Interiors had a Route 66 cabinet featured in a magazine and I took one look at it and knew that was what I wanted to duplicate.

And I did.  The hard way.

The hard way involved doing what I knew at the time - printing out multiple sheets of paper to combine large enough for the big graphic I was making, and taping them together to make the one large template.

I already owned the cabinet (minus the door), so that was easy.

Graphite paper was used underneath the template with tracing over the whole design to have the markings right on the project.

Then I had to paint the design inside the lines, the biggest challenge of all.

It's always been hard for me to stay in the lines, but not read between 'em.

Fast forward three years and now I want to share something with you to make your duplicating life a whole lotta easier.......

Stencils from Funky Junk Interiors.

Donna has stencils now for all you folks who want your own Route 66 cabinet, and want to do it the easy way.  Click the link above and it will take you to her store to find what stencils she has for sale.  New stencils will be available as she creates them.

Route 66 comes in two sizes, although maybe not the size of Alaska like my template!

She has all the tutorials you need on the Funky Junk Interiors blog to head you on down highway 66 and stencil your way to coolness, and you can see other cool things she has made with her stencils, like this BINGO board.

I'm not complaining about how my cabinet turned out, I was pretty proud that my first attempt at painting something had me actually able to accomplish it.  But it took me hours of work creating, transferring and painting my version.  The whole process made me think I would never again DIY something like that.

I'm happy I've come a long way since then and so have my techniques.

But I sure don't like to reinvent the wheel, especially when it has to do with math and figuring out how to enlarge graphics to print out the size I want.

So do yourself a favor - go the easy *route* - with a stencil you can reuse again and again.

If you want to read how I took the long way and made my Route 66 copycat cabinet click {here}.

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