This document provides instructions for stenciling a kitchen border using a Virginia Creeper stencil. The steps include preparing the surface, taping the stencil to the wall, loading a foam roller with paint from a styrofoam plate, rolling paint onto the stencil without pressing too hard, removing the stencil to reveal the pattern, and continuing the process until the border is complete around the room. Proper application of the stencil using a foam roller is emphasized to achieve a clean, crisp pattern without bleeding behind the stencil.

1. How to Stencil a Kitchen Border
with Cutting Edge Stencils

2. Here’s What You’ll Need:
1. Your Virginia Creeper Border Stencil (or
the border/strip stencil of your choice)
2. Dense foam roller
3. Stencil brush
4. Latex/acrylic paint
5. Large styrofoam plate
6. Painters tape
7. Paper towels

4. Here’s What You Do
• First, make sure that the area you are
stenciling is free and clear of any dirt and
dust.
• Place the stencil on the wall where you
desire the pattern to go. Secure the stencil
to the wall with a piece of painters tape on
each corner of the stencil sheet.

5. Click here for the full video

6. • Pour your latex/acrylic paint onto your styrofoam
plate. To load your foam roller, roll it into the
paint on the plate with short, quick motions.
Make sure to use some pressure on the roller as
you load the paint, so that it absorbs the paint
evenly.
• Get rid of any excess paint on your roller by
blotting it off a on folded paper towel. Roll it back
and forth a few times until the roller seems
almost dry so that you don’t get any bleeding
behind the stencil! The less paint you use, the
better results you will get!

8. • Roll the paint onto the stencil with your loaded roller without pressing
too hard.
- Make sure you do not roll over the outside of the stencil product.

9. • Once you’ve finished painting the stencil sheet,
slowly remove the sheet from the wall.
• Then continue with the process. Since the paint
dries quickly, you can immediately start
stenciling the next portion of the pattern.
• The Virginia Creeper Border is an interlocking
pattern, so it will easily line up with the
previously painted portion. The leaves on the
right and left side of the pattern are identical,
allowing the stencil to lock into itself and
continue the pattern seamlessly.

11. • After stenciling a few sheets of the pattern, you
will need to reload your roller with more paint.
Do not put too much pressure on the roller in
attempt to squeeze out the last bits of paint; this
will cause bleeding behind the stencil.
• Continue the process until the border is
surrounding the room. The pattern should come
out clean and crisp, even if you do not use spray
adhesive to stick the pattern to the wall.
• Finally, sit back and admire the work you’ve
completed! The border stencil added such a
beautiful, warm feel to the interior design of this
kitchen! See, there’s no need to fear stenciling
when you have Cutting Edge Stencils on your
side!

12. Here you go!!