Taping Shapes
Here’s a way to personalize your space and have fun experimenting. Paint shapes on different surfaces around your home, to add visual interest or to make a room feel up-to- date without changing your style.
Here’s a way to personalize your space and have fun experimenting. Paint shapes on different surfaces around your home, to add visual interest or to make a room feel up-to- date without changing your style.
Here’s a way to personalize your space and have fun experimenting. Paint shapes on different surfaces around your home, to add visual interest or to make a room feel up-to- date without changing your style.
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Show Your Creativity
Use shapes to create subtle accents around picture frames. Or, add them to existing wallpaper and other already patterned surfaces for an interesting contrasted look. Check out our Creative Techniques page for links to more ideas. For freshly painted surfaces (at least 24 hours old), 3M recommends Scotch® Delicate Surface Painter’s Tape. And be sure to visit our How to Tape page for basic paint prep and tape removal tips.
Using Tape to Paint Shapes - Step by Step Instructions
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Prepare SurfacePaint your basecoat and let it dry 24 hours, or skip this step and choose an existing surface.
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Draw ShapesUse a pencil to lightly draw your shapes on the surface. You can do this free-hand, use a pencil and ruler, or cut a shape out of cardboard to use as a template.
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TapeTape around each shape, making sure you protect all areas that should not be painted. And, keep pencil lines inside the border of the tape.
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Paint and RevealPaint your shapes, and then allow paint to dry for at least 24 hours. Slowly remove the tape to reveal your finished design.
Prepare to Be Inspired
Check out how our creative partners are using this technique to add splashes of color around their homes in brilliant and interesting ways.
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Painting with More Than 2 Colors
Working with more paint colors opens up dozens of new possibilities for expressing yourself and making your space completely your own. Add modern style to a room, accent wall or piece of furniture. We break down the steps, so you can get started quickly and bring patterns to life.
Tape as Pattern
A fun way to add depth and form to paintable surfaces, using tape as the pattern lets you express yourself in nearly unlimited ways. Think bold lines, stripes, zigzags and triangular shapes. You create the design with painter’s tape, either with a template or inventing a pattern as you go along.
