Good morning!
Rupa here with my last post for the year! It’s been 6months
now with crafters corner and I hope you have been enjoying the tutorials here.
I hope to play more with their products next year too!
Today I would like to explain some quick and easy ways to
distress wood and create textures on backgrounds using these 2 amazing tools
from PLAID. These help in creating amazing backgrounds for Decoupage and
decorating any objects. You will see soon how I have used them to create not 1
or 2, but 3 different projects with the same tools.
Let me first start with a recycled project…of course, how else
would it be??? Here is what I started off with…
Yes, a Swarovski box …it came to me empty, lol! Yes, a friend
had kept it carefully so I could work on it. And here is what I made with it…
Of course the process in making this project is priceless
than what originally would have been inside it! Really…I made this box in just
1 hour flat! That’s how easy it is to distress and make patterns with the tools
that I am going to show you.Here are my 2 buddies for the day who helped with this project..
You can see how loved they are!
Let’s start off…As always its a picture heavy post! Hope you stick around till the end!
Step1- I gessoed the lid with white and the base of
the box with black gesso.
I then applied black paint to the rim of the lid and
when that dried, applied some white candle wax to the areas where I wanted it
distressed. After that, I gave a top coat of Folk art multi surface paints and
when dry, took out this scrapping tool from Plaid.
I just had to lightly peel
off on the areas where there was wax and voila! The magic distressing happened
to reveal the black base coat.
This scrapping tool comes in 4 sizes and just perfect to create
that distressed look however big your project may be!
Step2- I had this lovely tissue in my stash and went
about adhering this to the top of the lid using modge podge.
It is a wonderful
sight to see the tissue adhere to the distressed edges and I love how the
pattern shows thru the distressing! Now as that was drying, I started to work
on the base.
After the black gesso had dried, I missed 2 shades of the
multi surface paint along with Folk art blending gel and applied as top coat.
This blending tool delays the drying time and helps you to create textures
without having to be in a hurry!
Step3- I took this other tool, the texture comb from
Plaid and ran it on the top coat.
You can see how wonderfully it creates a
striped pattern and also distresses the base at the same time. Here is a closer
look.
I went about creating this pattern on all the sides. All of this in just
5mins…can you believe it! As the comb removes the paint, it creates dimension
and you can feel the stripes when you run your fingers on it!
At the same time,
it distresses the area where the paint has been stripped off…all this in just
one swipe! I think this is just an amazing tool to create backgrounds. I will
show you more uses soon.
Step4- Once the stripes were dry, I took a border pattern
stencil from my stash and used white paint to stencil this. I liked the look of
this on a striped back ground.
This was repeated on all the sides. The lid
along with this base looked a “made for each other couple”, but I dint want to
stop there.
I cut out a scalloped oval using the black chip board and repeated
the wax method and the scrapping tool to create a distressed look.
It took me
about a minutes to achieve this and then I stamped the sentiment using Archival
black. It is the only embellishment on top of the lid and here is the final
look.
And now, as I open the lid….
You can see some colorful goodies inside, all of which were
made using these tools!
The first is a set of tags that I made on the left over
chipboards that I had.
I have gessoed the base white and applied different
color paints as top coat and have used the comb in different directions to get
varied patterns.
Have a look at the dimension the comb creates…
After this I had some sentiments and also colored some stamped
image on old book paper and my tags are ready! These are ready to hit any project
now.
If you can see closely, I have also distressed the edges in some using the
scrapping tool.
I now don’t have to think much about how to create textures. This
comb gives me lot of freedom to explore and I can make projects in minutes now.
Here is one more I have created with the same comb! A
WELCOME panel on a scrap piece of wood.
The central portion has the weave
pattern created with the tool and I have also decoupaged the top and bottom edges on book paper. This
was one quick project, ready in 10 mins.
So now I have a box full of stuff for which I really dint
stress much.
With the year drawing to an end, These make awesome gifts to your loved
ones and maybe you can gift yourself these tools from Plaid and see how fast
you can now distress and create textures. I am sure you will agree that Decoupage along with distressing and texture is a "
drop dead" combination! Try it...
Do let me know how you enjoyed working with them. Wishing
you all a very HAPPY NEW YEAR and I will see you there soon!
Here are the products from the store that I have used….
Until my next creative journey,
Happy crafting and recycling.
Cheers,
Rupa
