{DIY} How To: Leopard Print Drawers

As promised, here's the mini-tutorial for the leopard print drawers. The inside of the drawers had already been painted white, and I had a lot of black paint leftover from doing the outside of the chests. I used a leopard-print stencil from Hobby Lobby, you can find it online here.

{Btw, the carpet isn't my choice - we're renting.}

The paint was still a bit wet when these pictures were taken. I just went all over the drawer with the stencil, rotating it a different way each time I painted a new strip so there wouldn't be an obvious repeat in the pattern. I also went back with the black and connected some of the dots to make more "U" shapes because those are better for filling in with the brown. For the brown color, I bought a sample-sized container of Behr's "Smokey Topaz," and just free-handed it. I think it looks good in just black and white, too.

And now when I open my drawers...bam, leopard in my face.