The blue paint color is Benjamin Moore “Grandma’s Sweater” #787, carefully selected after much scrutiny to be the perfect Toy Story blue. We actually had it matched at our local paint shop to be zero VOC which is much healthier for babies. The blue was done in an eggshell finish and the white clouds were done in a flat paint so they would look puffier.

We looked in Toy Story art books to get the shape and pattern of the clouds right. There is a big cloud and a little cloud and they are in a diagonal pattern.

Originally we drew the clouds by hand on large pieces of paper and then made stencils out of a large rigid plastic sheet made for stenciling. Eventually we refined the design and got a laser cutter to make them to sell since demand was high. The ones we sell are very high quality.

If you need to go around corners or up onto a ceiling, you can trace the stencil onto file folders or a large piece of cardboard and bend it as necessary.