How to Paint an Oversized Design
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Shopping List
Supplies You Will Need
1. Tracing paper
2. Pattern such as a length of wallpaper, fabric, or wrapping paper, or a photocopied image of a patterned object, such as a rug3. Damp cloth
4. Interior latex paint in three colors -
Tools List
Tools You Will Need
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Pencil
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Level
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Ruler
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School chalk and/or Chalk Line with pale chalk dust
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Painter's Tape (to protect baseboard and molding)
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Rounded Artist's Brush, such as a #12
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