DIY Stenciled Pillows

* I received free product to help facilitate this review. All opinions expressed in this post are 100% my own.

If you’re a reader of this blog, you must know that I love pillows! I’ve made DIY placemat pillows and pillows out of cloth napkins for my home’s living room. So I was excited to try out the Paint a Pillow kits from Paint-A-Pillow. I have never stenciled a pillow before and thought it would be fun!

I picked out the Mermaid Paint-a-Pillow kit — I love the pattern! The kit came with everything I needed to stencil a pillow: a stenciling frame, a reusable pillow stencil, a 17”x 17” cotton pillow cover, a pillow insert: linen/down alternative, a mini roller and 1/2″ stencil brush, a paint tray and stirring stick, a free mini stencil and practice fabric swatch, full color instructions, and one fabric paint of my choice. Besides my kit, I also received a second paint color, some tassels and some antique silver round cone studs.

My Paint a Pillow work area.

How to Stencil a Pillow

My DIY stenciled pillows were fun and easy to make! My stencil frame came with a pillow cover already inserted, so all I had to do was choose my work area — so I chose to paint outside on a small folding table. (I figure I could skip the clean up if I painted outside!) I laid some newspaper on top of my folding table and placed my stencil frame and pillow cover on top of the table and got to work!

I squirted some fabric paint on my paint tray, and rolled my mini roller until it was covered with paint, but not too saturated. I then simply rolled the paint over my stencil and pillow cover until I had completely filled in the stencil design!

I let my DIY stenciled pillow cover sit outside for an hour or so to make sure it was completely dry. Once it was dry, I simply snapped on my antique silver round cone studs! I then put my pillow insert into my stenciled pillow cover, and my pillow was complete!

For my second pillow, I wash and dried my stencil (in the sink), inserted it and my pillow cover into my stencil frame and repeated the same process for my second pillow! The below is a close up shot of one of my DIY stenciled pillows.

I love how my stenciled pillows came out! I think they look great on my spray-painted Adirondack chairs!

This is another look at the pillows — this was a fun project!

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Comments

Monique Young says

July 20, 2015 at 1:05 PM

Oh how cute I’m glad I stumbled upon this. Love the dots and oh I love them all 😉
- Lauren says
  
  July 20, 2015 at 8:15 PM
  
  Thanks so much, Monique! Glad you stopped by!
Meg M. says

July 20, 2015 at 9:11 PM

Thanks for the giveaway! So many awesome options! And you can never have enough throw pillows 😉
- Lauren says
  
  July 20, 2015 at 10:27 PM
  
  I agree, Meg! I LOVE throw pillows!
Mina says

July 21, 2015 at 11:46 AM

This looks so cute and easy to make. I’m new to DIY accent pillows but excited to start!
- Lauren says
  
  July 22, 2015 at 10:51 PM
  
  Hope you get to work on some DIY pillows, Mina!
JaneEllen says

August 16, 2015 at 10:51 PM

Love idea of being able to make more pillow covers in any color I want at any time.Don’t have to go fabric shopping and maybe have to settle for something don’t really want or can’t afford first choice. Can I buy pillow kit if I don’t win? Where can I get them? Great post, love this idea. Happy week
Thanks so much for chance to win. Looks like fun.
- Lauren says
  
  August 17, 2015 at 9:35 PM
  
  Hi, JaneEllen! It is great being able to make one’s own pillows. I completed my pillows using a kit from PaintaPillow.com.