Stenciled Essentials For Your Boho Picnic Decor
Looking for a group activity that involves great friends, good times, and most importantly, won’t break the bank? A Boho Picnic from start to finish is the perfect DIY project that will build lifetime memories with your closest friends. Browse through Cutting Edge Stencils stencil collection and find the perfect stencils for your picnic accessories. Get together and stencil these Top 5 Bohemian picnic decor essentials that will transform your picnic aesthetic into a paradise.
Our first stenciled essential is a Wood Pallet!
Bohemian style furniture tends to be vintage looking and tells a story, which leads us to our first essential boho picnic decor item; a stenciled wood pallet converted into a picnic table! This is perfect for a bohemian style soiree. The wood pallet may be the biggest part of your boho decor, but it’s definitely the cheapest! Stores will leave them roadside to be picked up for recycling. This is your chance to scoop one up and repurpose it for free! Before painting, give it a good sanding with 120-220 grit sandpaper. When you’re done, dust it off as well as you can.
Before stenciling, whitewash your wood pallet with Navajo White paint in a flat latex finish by Benjamin Moore. You can do this by adding a little bit of white paint to a dense foam roller and lightly roll the paint on the pallet so that some original wood is still peeking through. A great part about the whitewashing technique is that it takes almost no time to dry! Spray the back of your inlay stencil with repositionable spray adhesive and place it on the wood pallet once your paint is dry. Pat down the stencil to make sure it sticks to the wood.
Boho decor embraces the “more is more” philosophy and immediately my mind went to inlay stencils. Inlay stencil kits come with multiple stencils so you can cover as much surface as you want, creating the classicly busy inlay look. Cutting Edge Stencils also believes in the “more is more” philosophy. These stencils are reusable, so we used them on three different boho essentials, getting the most for our dollar! For the stenciled wood pallet, we used the Neera Bone Inlay Furniture Stencil Kit.
For a distressed look, take a 4” Dense Foam Roller and unevenly apply Benjamin Moore’s Black paint in a flat latex finish onto it. You can do this by rolling the paint on with more pressure in some areas and lighter pressure in others. Keep in mind you don’t want to press too hard or you will get some stencil bleed.
Don’t forget the sides!
Our second stenciled essential is a Wooden Crate!
We chose to stencil a wood crate as another DIY boho decor essential because of it’s functionality. This $12 wooden crate from Michaels can be used to transport your food/decor to your picnic area. Once there, flip it on its side and it’ll into a small side table!
We used the Neera Inlay stencil again on the wooden crate because we wanted to match it with our makeshift stenciled pallet table! We simply repeated the same stenciling process as the pallet and loved how it came out!
Our third stenciled essential is Placemats!
Stenciling on fabric is SUPER EASY! It’s just like regular stenciling, all you need is fabric paint. A budget-friendly place to purchase outdoor place settings is the dollar store. We only spent $4 on our placemats and found some funky outdoor decor while we were there! Cutting Edge Stencils sells Jacquard Fabric paint in a large variety of colors. Wanting to utilize the entire Neera Bone Inlay Furniture Stencil Kit, we used the remaining border stencils for our placemats. It’s a less dramatic look but still ties the entire stenciled boho decor together. Take a ¾” Professional Stencil brush and pounce the White Jacquard fabric paint over your inlay border stencil on the black placemats. Then take your Black Jacquard fabric paint and do that same on your tan and white placemats. Don’t be afraid to mix and match!
It’s amazing that we used ONE inlay stencil for THREE different projects!
Our fourth stenciled essential is a Picnic Blanket!
We’ve stenciled tablecloths and tapestries, so why not a picnic blanket? We used the Ikat Saida Allover Stencil to stencil an old blanket we never used…until now! The stencil pattern definitely fit the boho look we were aiming for and the size of the wall stencil made it a super quick stenciling job.
We used the Black Jacquard fabric paint and the dense foam roller to stencil our picnic blanket! The best way to avoid stencil bleed while stenciling on fabric is to apply spray adhesive to the back of the stencil and evenly load the paint on your dense foam roller.
All of our wall stencils come with registration marks to easily align the stencil for your next repeat. We recommend waiting 2 minutes in between repeats to allow the paint to dry.
Whether you decide to stencil a trendy tablecloth or picnic blanket, you shouldn’t have to worry about losing your stencil design in the washing machine. Once the paint is dry, place a piece of fabric over your accessory. Then, put your iron over it and heat set it.
Our fifth stenciled essential is an Inlay Serving Tray!
This classic black and white floral inlay serving tray was the perfect subtle boho stenciled essential that our picnic needed. Never judge the size of a DIY project! This small craft stencil project used more than half the stencils in the Large Asha Bone Inlay Furniture Stencil Kit. All the border stencils included in the large inlay stencil kit brought it to the next level of beauty! The best part about this serving tray is that we used the same paint from the wood pallet and crate so no paint went to waste! I used the 4 Piece Professional Stencil Brush Kit for this stencil craft project because of the different sizes of the stencil openings. When the picnic is over, the serving tray makes a great accent decor item in your home!
