Guest will give tips on wall stencils

Information on stenciling on walls and making duck tape pouches will be the featured topics on "Creative Living" 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday and noon on Thursday. (All times are Mountain.)

Jaime Alcorta, owner of Walls of Art in Lubbock will show how to add random raised stenciling to walls for extra impact. Many popular fabrics have a damask pattern, and you can use this pattern randomly on the wall.

Crafter and designer, Marisa Pawelko will show how to make duck tape pouches using non stick cutting tools and rolls and sheets of duck tape. These pouches can be made in various sizes, colors and patterns and can be easily embellished, too. Her company is Modern Surrealist, and she's from Winfield, Ill.

Information on making a toy storage chest, painting on placemats, and creating garments with an Asian flair will be the featured topics on "Creative Living" noon on Tuesday and 2 p.m. on Saturday. (All times are Mountain.)

Bruce Johnson, representative of Minwax in Upper Saddle River, N.J., will show how to take an unfinished toy chest and customize it to help your child stay more organized — and for storing his/her treasures.

Kris Cranford, a certified instructor for One Stroke Décor, will demonstrate how to paint various holiday designs on purchased placemats to make unique one-of-a-kind items for the home. She's from Portales.

Designer, author and sewing expert, Stephanie Kimura will show how to create beautiful garments with an Asian flair. Her samples feature asymmetrical and 3-D designs and lots of glitter, beads and beautiful stitching. She lives in Jensen Beach, Fla.

Embossed designs

Add random raised stenciling to walls for extra impact. Many popular fabrics have a damask pattern and you can use this pattern randomly on the wall.

Steps

1. Draw level guide lines in chalk around the room where you wish to apply the stencil. Lay them out in a high, low and middle triangle pattern and try not to have any of them at the exact same level.

2. Tape up stencil and thickly trowel joint com-pound over the stencil. Remove stencil starting from a top corner. Let dry and sand edges a little if desired.

3. Paint a solid satin base color. For this example, I used a medium gold.

4. A brown glaze can be applied over the wall to add an aged plaster look. Then you can reapply the stencil and brush on contrasting colors like metallic bronze, red and black.

5. Add some faded paint on versions of the stencil. Using the stencils, register marks and chalk level marks, stencil to fill in a section of the damask pattern with brown glaze.

You can also use a colored plaster like Venetian or lusterstone to complete the embossed design. Then while still wet push jewels into the plaster.

"Creative Living" is produced and hosted by Sheryl Borden. The show is carried by more than 118 PBS stations in the United States, Canada, Guam and Puerto Rico and is distributed by Westlink, Albuquerque.