How To Hand Stencil Coir Mat

Use the free sag file and hand paint a coir doormat with a stencil and outdoor acrylic paint.

How to hand stencil coir mat.

The biggest difference for me was getting the stencil to stay in place on the mat. Use freezer paper or a vinyl stencil to cut out your design with your silhouette cameo or cricut machine. This will keep it in place while you are cutting out your stencil. With a little outdoor craft paint and vinyl stencil my mat was soon transformed.

Lift up the stencil and wait for the paint to dry. Using a ruler and pencil mark the center of the mat. Roll the dark aqua color over the stencil. I ended up making a cactus one door mat no stencil.

After your tape is secured it s time to layer your stencils on top. And here is tip. Not familiar with a coir doormat. Secure the design to the mat using your pins.

All three stencil materials required extra work and creativity to get them to stay in place. Secure the design to the mat using your pins. Center your stencil pattern on this mark. After your tape is secured it s time to layer your stencils on top.

You need to seal and protect these rugs. Lightly tape the edges of your stencil to keep it in place. So there you go a cute door mat. The only time consuming part was cutting out all the stencils.

A new welcome mat would freshen up the front porch nicely and help me to think spring until it was safe to plant flowers. To speed the drying process use a hair dryer. Lay your design down on the mat exactly how you d like it to appear when painted. I just knew the stencil would bleed something awful but it didn t.

This will keep it in place while you are cutting out your stencil. But when i happened upon a bin of coir door mats plain ones just begging for some silhouette intervention i popped one in the cart. It is a challenge to get anything to stick to these coir mats. Thanks tanya for doing all the labor for us but once you have your stencil and idea picked it.

Lay your design down on the mat exactly how you d like it to appear when painted. Find the paint and products we use here. E learning tutorials for making coir products. In the end i decided to do my final design using a vinyl stencil.