Hello crafty friends..
Welcome to Crafters Corner Blog. I am Rupa from Bangalore and so happy to
be part of the extremely talented design team here!
I am into altered art and mixed media and I love to up cycle house hold
trash in most of my projects. You will see a lot of them in future.
For today, I had this scrap piece of wood that was abandoned after some
carpentry work at home and I decided to try this new product Folk Art Multisurface paint on it.
It is durable, weather-resistant SATIN paint for glass, ceramics, wood,
metal, rigid plastic, fabric, canvas, paper and terracotta...phew! That’s a
lot...isn’t that amazing! I will work on each of these surfaces and let you
know. It is water based and dries permanent and there is wide range of colors to
choose from.
June was special month for more than one reason... I got my first DT kit from
Crafters corner and secondly I celebrated my 21st wedding
anniversary!
And so I decided to make something for the house with these new paints and
a piece of wood! Ready to see???
Here it is....
Let me explain in detail the process in making this.
Step 1- I cleaned the old piece of
wood and gave the first coat of folk art paint, Fresh Cut Grass! Yes...I applied
the paint directly WITHOUT gesso! This is how it is after the first coat.
Good
coverage but I could still see some wood beneath and so i went ahead and gave
another coat of green.
Step2- I wanted a distressed
finish and so took out a plain wax candle and went about rubbing it in parts
that I wanted the wood to be distressed.
I then applied my top coat, Daffodil
Yellow. Wow! I just loved the vibrancy of the color...the wood was coming to
life!
You can see here, that the wax has resisted the top color and this make it
easy for you to sand and reveal the base color. This is one type of wood
distressing. I hope you give it a try.
Step3- My wood piece was beginning
to look like a piece of green land and I decided to make a nature background. I
stenciled some ferns on the top of the plank with brown acrylic paints. You get
the feel of swaying palms don’t you???
Step4- I further distressed and
gave a vintage look to the panel by dry brushing brown acrylics on the main
panel and the edges.
Finally some color splats with black and white paint and I
was pretty much happy with the background!
Step5- I nailed a mini paper clip
in the center to hang the photo mat. No nature inspired project is complete
without flowers and birds! Crafters corner has some lovely embellishments and
you are actually spoilt for choice here!
Step6- I then tied a jute twine on
the lower half of the panel do that the photo mat sits snuggly there.
To the left, I arranged a bed of coconut coir and arranged these lovely
flowers from the floral collection at Crafters corner.
I love calla lilies and
I was so happy to use them here, so cheerful and adds so much beauty to the
vibrant background! It almost looks like an anniversary bouquet, a symbolic
gesture, lol!
The little bird you see sits comfortably there
Step7- I placed the photo mat..it
was sheer co incidence that the colors there complimented the entire panel
work! Now that’s a bonus .A die cut sentiment and my anniversary gift to my husband and my first project for Crafters
Corner was ready!
I hope you enjoyed the process as much I had a blast making this one! The
paints are so easy to work with and believe me, I have not varnished this piece
because I dint feel the need to! The satin finish has a lovely feel to touch
and see, I dint want to seal it.
A side view of the panel...You can see the distressing of the wood clearly here, all this and more possible with these amazing satin finish paints.
Here are the list of supplies I have used from the shop...
Until my next creative journey,
Happy crafting and recycling.
Cheers,
Rupa
