$9 stencil made with frog tape

Why waste $60, $70 or even $100 on a stencil? You can make your own with chalk, wax paper, frog tape and a pencil for about $9 (not including the cost of paint of course). Just draw a picture of what you want on your wall in chalk, tape some wax paper up over it, trace it IN PENCIL, cover your traced lines with Frog Tape (painters tape works too), cut it and peel it off the wax paper to stick it back on the wall. Full tutorial with pictures is here: http://lipglossandlumber.blogspot.com/2013/04/painting-tree.html