It's done! The paint I used was cream stencil paint...almost solid so it was almost impossible to overload the brush. I ended up doing all the colours before moving the stencil and cleaning the stencil each time before taping it back on the wall.

Finally decided to go with Traditional Ivy...yellow and 2 shades of green. Decided the burgundy would make it look too much like Christmas. The Green Man I bought in England now has an ivy vine to rest in. Yippee! (Now, to get the DIRT out of the house....anybody have acess to heavy duty earth moving equipment? grin....)