Inspired by a very expensive and rustic country kitchen that had an entire wall of pebbles behind the luscious gas and wood stove,  I came home and fashioned our "Plaster Wall of Pebbles" with small little pebbles all fit together in a wall formation.

 

A super easy way to pre-color your stones is to add powdered fabric dye right in to the joint compound. Of course, all the stones will turn out the same color, but that's super easy to fix and loads of fun; just take a small sponge and sponge various tones in the same color range (or even contrasting colors) and blot over the top of the stones lightly for natural looking variation.

 

Color them various shades of browns, grays, black and rust and watch what happens! Flick a toothbrush of deeply colored acrylics over the wall (of course DO protect everything else!) to make it look totally real!

 

The entire stencil measures 16"x11" and the largest pebble in the stencil only measures 1 3/4"X2 1/2" so you can tell these are pretty small pebbles!  Single stencil.