Woodworking Stencils

This year will see the introduction of spicy color combinations in hues that warm the soul. The coppers and metallic colors that stretched from 2005 through 2006 are fading in popularity. This does not mean a full overhaul. A quick deep cranberry dry brush or sponge over the deep coppers from 2005 will bring lamps and trim up to date, and give your accents added luster and depth.

Color trends in 2007 contain palettes that work independently to create a subtle backdrop. The ’statement colors’ create the perfect backdrop for home furniture. The industry is taking into consideration advances in furniture design and textures. In response, they are developing home design techniques that frame and show-off fine furniture.

The spicy color combinations mix hues that warm the soul, just like comfort foods. The stress on elegance and artistic tastes is giving way as homeowners are turning back the clock, returning to a simpler time, and a ‘hearth and home’ feel.

A perfectly decorated room will envelop the occupants, relaxing them, and creating an oasis in today’s high stress, ambitious, dog-eat-dog world.

The color palettes include biscuit and wheat neutrals that contain no traces of the beige tones, which haunt most home decorators. Coca brown and pumpkin orange replace beige and burgundy. Salmon gives way to cinnamon apple pie.

Biscuit and wheat neutrals, cocoa brown, pumpkin orange and cinnamon apple pie, are just a few of the comfort colors that will wrap your room with warmth and promote a stress-free space. Flooring is dark, rich mahogany browns and pale, non-descript colors.

Children’s rooms and kitchens have shed their primary colors and are taking on muted hues in mustard yellow with robin egg blue trim. Like the coppers and gold trims, burgundy rooms can be given a treatment of deep plumb, rich red, to bring them up to date and add a touch of elegance.

These colors lend themselves gracefully to white furniture and are a perfect choice for out-dated, white, bathroom renovations. Any room with deep, rich walls, can be perfected with the elegance of black and white. The black and white creates a stark contrast to rooms that normally fade, or are overpowered by dominant rooms with powerful color schemes.

Polished metal is the only hint of modern. The overall theme reflects culture’s interest in the environments. This is seen in bold, black flower motifs on the wall, to plumb folk-art stenciled vines. However, simplicity is the rule. The wall stencils should almost take on an arc deco feel.

Put away the clutter and ostentatious artwork. While the trend is not turning toward country designs, an artistically designed quilt will fit with the new designs better than large artwork, or expensive figurines. Homemade and crafts are not part of the 2007 design trends. Instead, look for elegant and sophistication artwork that accent, but do not overpower the theme of comfort and simplicity. Remember, artwork, draperies, and rugs should sink into the background, choose pieces that lets the eye focus on the furniture.

If you are in the market for furniture, then black and white, in rich sophisticated fabrics is a wise choice. Even though furniture is the focus in 2007, do not misunderstand this to mean that we are looking for antiques, grandiose furniture.

Keep the theme, comfort and warmth, in mind when looking for furniture. Simple lines, elegant woodwork, offset by bold fabrics.

Bring the theme of hearth and home back into the home. Your home is no longer a show place to impress peers and business associates. The home trends of 2007 are designed to let you recapture the essence of the home.

About the Author:

Patricia Taylor advises on home furnishings and decor from her web site at

http://www.bedlinenhere.com
She invites you to get her FREE home decorating guide here

http://www.blindshere.com

Article Source: ArticlesBase.com – 2007 Home Design Trends

If you are screen printing as a hobby, you may have tried several ways to create your stencil. One such way that has been popularized on the internet is the screen fill method. Essentially, the screen fill method involves painting an image on a screen using a filler that dries and becomes your stencil. Once the stencil is created, the screen is used the same way it always is with screen printing: it is positioned on the fabric, ink is loaded into the screen, and a squeegee is used to push the ink through it. Wherever the holes in the screen have not been painted over, the image is created.

While some may consider the screen fill method simple and inexpensive, there are several drawbacks:

1.It is extremely time consuming, in fact most demonstrations of this method involve low detail, simple art.

2.When you make a mistake painting the filler, it can be quite aggravating to try to fix.

3.It is tedious. It takes a long time and is painstaking.

4.If you want to reproduce the screen, you have to do the whole process over again, and it’ll never be exactly the same.

5.Line work and small type are pretty much out of the question. Imagine trying to paint the centers of letters like “e” and “a” or a long, straight line.

Fortunately, there is another method for creating stencils on screens that solves all five of the above problems, and it is also relatively inexpensive on a per screen basis: the photographic method using light sensitive emulsion.

Basically, the photographic method involves filling all the holes in the screen with photographic emulsion (also know as coating the screen). The emulsion is simply poured into a scoopcoater, and then dragged across the screen, creating a barrier about as thick as a few sheets of paper. When the coat dries, it’s ready for exposure.

Then a film is made with the desired image. The film has two parts to it, the light-blocking part and the transparent part. The film looks just like the final print will look, except it is black and clear.

The film acts as a light barrier when exposing the emulsion with light. Because the emulsion is light sensitive, it becomes water resistant when exposed. After exposure, the screen is rinsed, and the unexposed parts wash away. The image on the film becomes the stencil on the screen, allowing the ink to pass only where the image is. Films are commonly made of transparencies on a paper much like tracing paper, or on specially coated acetate sheets that can be printed with an ink jet printer.

While there are a few types of photographic emulsions, including capillary films, diazo, photopolymer, and dual cure, the light sensitive emulsion that is probably the most useful to the kind of printer that might consider the screen fill method is the dual cure emulsion. The reason why the dual cure is a suitable substitute is because someone who would use the screen fill method most likely is looking to do a short print run if they are using waterbased inks(less than 1000 pieces), they want to make a quality screen that can be recycled, and they want as few steps as possible to create the screen with as little expense.

Coating screens with photographic emulsion is a fairly quick and painless process once you get the hang of it. While there are some best practices and trouble-shooting tips that can shorten your learning curve, even without much experience most people pick it up quickly. The one main drawback of the photographic process is that you need a light source to expose your screen. Fortunately, with the right set-up, you have a large variety of choices including the sun.

Gary Jurman is the president of diyTeeShirts.com, a website dedicated to helping artists learn to screen print . The site features how to screen print tutorials and supplies, including a crash course in screen printing, how to build a screen printing press, and a kit for hacking the Yudu.

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