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How to Use Stencils to Paint Jeans

Learn how to use stencils to make designs on fabric and jeans from an expert artist in this free how-to video about painting fabric and jeans.

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A little bit more about the stenciling. When you're tracing your design, you want to use a hard pencil, pen, or a Sharpie marker. Basically something that's not going to rub off when you flip it over. Then when you do flip it over and you're going to fill in the flip side, you want to use, if you have a light pair of jeans, some dark charcoal pencil. If you have a dark pair of jeans, probably some white charcoal pencil. You can again, get those at any craft store, Michael's or Pearl. You just want to be really thorough. Really get good coverage when you're putting this on the reverse side of your stencil, so that when you put it down on the jeans and you're rubbing it off with your finger, you really get a lot of that charcoal to sit onto the jeans. When you're painting over it, you can see as much of the design as possible. It's not going to be perfect. The idea is to give you a general outline of the design. Keep the design with you so you can sort of reference it as you trace. That's it.

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How to Use Stencils to Paint Jeans

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