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dresser with mural, rushmore chalk paint

Often, I will have an idea of a paint technique or design I want to try on a piece of furniture, before I even have a piece of furniture to paint. That is how it started with this last project. I had purchased a dresser that I thought would fit perfectly an idea I had been carrying around in my head. However, when I got it home and looked at it closer, I really didnt like how the moldings on the drawers were going to break up the very graphic image I wanted to put on it. I walked around for days, taking quick peeks at the piece and trying to quickly give myself a mental snapshot of the image on it. Does that make sense to anyone? Well, I just wasnt liking my imaginary snapshot in my head so, ugh, I decided to bag that idea for later.Now, I knew I wanted to do a hand painted element on this piece, because I was just in the mood for some decorative painting. My design background is in murals and I really find hand painting enjoyable. So, I had to think of something else. So where does a girl go to find painted furniture design inspiration...The Graphics Fairy!The Graphics Fairy is my go to place for inspiration and let me warn you, like visiting Pinterest, you will get off task. You may head there to look for designs for a furniture piece, but before you know it you will find yourself perusing tutorials on how to transfer beautiful french images onto tea cloths!Although I am "groupie" for french typography, I wanted to find some sort of flourish pattern to pick up the curves on the legs and bottom of this dresser. I decided to do a spencerian flourish with a bird. I also decided to do the piece all in cream and white shades. Heres how it all went down.Below is the dresser basecoated in American Paint Companys Chalk Paint in the color Rushmore, a beautiful earthy stone off white.

After selecting my graphic from the Graphic Fairy, I decided to transfer my image to my dresser using an overhead projector. If you do not have an overhead projector, another great technique I use for transferring large images is using blockposters.com to enlarge pictures. You can find a tutorial on that at the at the Graphics Fairy here.

tip..I didnt have transparency paper on hand and office depot is over 20 miles from my house, so in a pinch, I print out on a clear sheet protector we had laying around from my kids. Of course it will smear when you touch, but since you only have to use it one, be careful and dont touch it!

To trace my images, I used a watercolor pencil. Find them in the artist section of Michaels or your favorite craft store. Choose a color closest to the color you will be painting with, so I used a white pencil. After painting and when dry, you can just wipe away stray marks with a damp cloth. After you sketch the image up. Gather your painting supplies for the detail work:acrylic paint (you could use latex or whatever else you are comfortable with but for detail work I usually choose acrylics), water to dampen brush and clean, paper towel to dab brush,paper plate for paint, wet cloth to fix any mistakes, and brushesHere is how I usually set up my plate to paint. I poured out some white which was my main color, some Vandyke Brown tint I had on hand to add with white for lowlights (or you could use a raw uber or darker brown acrylic) and my brushes.Because this was more detailed work I used an assortment of smaller sized straight brushes, round and liner brushes and a filbert brush.

I painted the whole mural in white first. To make my brush flow smoothly for long flourishes, I dip my brush in water first and then mix with the paint to make a creamier mix. Sometimes I even wipe the surface with a damp rag so my brush wont drag while moving it, but in this case, I did not want to wipe off my water color pencil!

To create a little dimension, I added the darker accent color sort of as a shadow. Adding it to the inside of swirls and underneath selected brush strokes. Again, mix water with this color to get good flow.

After the mural was painted and had dried. I went over the whole piece with a 220 sanding block to distress. Paying closest attention to decorative details, corners and edges which is where a piece would naturally age first.

I finished the piece with a top coat of American Paint Companys clear wax followed by Miss Mustard Seeds White Wax to give it an overall white wash. (I will be posting a separate tutorial for waxing this piece soon).

Find beauty in your day!

Debbie
Linking to These Fabulous Blogs:
Miss Mustard Seed
The Graphics Fairy

YOUR VERY OWN CHARM beach shell charm tutorial

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Minggu, 12 Juni 2016

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Yesterday I showed you my beach charms and

promised to show you how to create them for yourself.

So without further ado,

Here is your step by step instructional how to make

a flower charm from common beach shells.

I started by dividing the shells into different sizes.

I then went and found the Krazy glue and tweezers.

I started with one half shell and with a drop of glue

to the rounded

bottom edge attached a second half shell kinda off set.

I used the hinge of the shell to mimic the look of each petal tip.

The tweezers helped to keep my fingers

from getting glued together or glued to the shells.

As it sat on my work surface I dotted the glue

on each new petal then holding the center

portion with the tweezers I pressed it onto the new

petal letting the glue dry for a few seconds.

Continuing to use this technic I moved around the

center part of the bloom added new petals.

Once the center started to get bigger I then

changed my method by adding the new petals to the center portion by having it sit on the work surface and slipping each new petal underneath the edge.

By now this is what the back is looking like.

Keep going.

and you will end up with this.

Next in the beach shell installments we havevotive holders found here:

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HERES YOUR SIGN

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Selasa, 12 April 2016

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For those of you looking for a Jeff Foxworthy stand up routine of the same name,

you will be disappointed. This article is to help give you ideas and offer suggestions

in repurposing items into new and fabulous signs to hang and enjoy in your home.

This FARM FRESH MILK tote is a thrift store item that was probably made in a workshop class.

It manages to move around my house quite a bit and shows up in many photos. The other side says

FARM FRESH EGGS.

The EAT sign is a discarded china cabinet door with a glass insert.

The FRESH BREAD DAILY sign was a hexagon table top and the French sign below is a

Christmas sign that was repainted.

How about using the back rest of an old broken chair as a WELCOME sign.

This elaborate sign is made from a footboard and old plastic mirror frame. The foot board has been

turned upside down, and the frame of the mirror was cut top and bottom and attached to the board.

My PARIS FLEA MARKET sign that hangs in our bedroom was painted on a very old board

that was a dresser drawer bottom. Many of the really old dressers are falling apart so we cant use

them as intended so finding new uses for the wood like this is perfect.

Dresser drawer backs can be made of some really nice wood so before you throw the whole dresser

away check to see if you can draw yourself a COFFEE sign with a black sharpie.

The 10 cent LAUNDRY sign on the right is a piece of maple originally used in a dresser as the side

of a drawer. 2 discarded oak kitchen cabinet doors hang above the shelf. These are perfect way to

recycle wood parts from furniture and renovations. The WHITEHALL LAUNDRY is an actual fabric

laundry bag stretched in a frame. Another drawer part is the piece used for this BUY VINTAGE seen

below. This sign hangs on my front porch.

Have fun creating your own signs!?

Three Ways to Protect Preserve and Store Your Precious Chalk Paint

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Senin, 04 April 2016

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Im an impulsive person. When I think of something, I must do it.
And then, when I think of something else, I must do that as well.
That leaves me doing a lot of different things and sometimes at the same time.

So, where am I going with this? Well, I find that my impulsivity affects my painting. When I want to start painting a new piece of furniture, I want to start painting.

I gather my brushes and other supplies, open my paint can and begin. And this, lack of planning has led to some problems, particularly with chalk paint.

You see, I like to paint directly out of the can. In my flurry to begin my project, pouring paint into another container would slow me down, it would be messy and I am certain it would interrupt my creative process. So, I paint out of my can, dipping and wiping my brush along the side.
But...this is what I end up with.

The paint that I wipe along the sides ends up drying along the lid. The lid never fits tight after that and eventually, the paint remaining inside thickens. At almost $40 a quart, this is a waste! So, I figured if I wanted to enjoy the spontaneity of painting out of a can,
I had to come up with some ways to preserve my chalk paint.

3 Ways To Protect, Preserve and Store

Your Precious Chalk Paint

1. Create a temporary and reusable lid with an old or new Ziplock twist lid...they fit perfectly!!

Creating a temporary lid gives me a lip to catch the paint on,

without getting any paint on the actual rim of the can.

cutting a lid to make a rim for paint can

Here, I used a hot tool with a blade to cut a circle

leaving about a half inch rim to catch the paint.

You can also use scissors if you carefully drill a hole in the center and cut outwards.

Just eyeball the circle. It does not have to be perfect.

Plop this on your can and as you paint it will catch all your paint. When finished painting, remove it, rinse it and save it to reuse.

This is how my new can of paint looks after using the zip lock lid. Much better.

2. With my rims clean from the storage lid, my paint can be kept safely in their original cans. However, when my quart of paint starts to run really low, I sometimes like to move what is unused into empty mason jars. They store paint air tight and they look pretty. Mason jars can just do anything with style!

3. Finally, another way you can keep your chalk paint fresh is with Annie Sloan storage lids.

These look wonderful. They are only $4.95 each and can be purchased at one of my favorite sites, www.thepurplepaintedlady.com.

Now, no more dried out paint:)

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YOUR VERY OWN CHARM beach shell charm tutorial

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