Gooood Morning!!!
Have you ever had an item kicking around your closet forever - and you don't seem to get around to crafting with it like you planned the first day? YUP - we all know that feeling! Well, here's one of mine {trust me I have many}.....its a wood heart and I can't even tell you where I got it, its been that long!
Well - I dragged it out to the craft table and there it sat for a few weeks! I stared at it - it stared back. It was touch and go there for awhile! Finally, I felt enough guilt to decide to work it!
Then I had fun - lol! So now I am feeling the love with this on my wall right this minute!
Challenge Entry:
Decorate a Wood Carft Item
Supplies:
paintable wood craft item [preferably with drilled holes - but you can improvise]
craft paint, [colour, and a white paint]
paint brush,
fine grit sandpaper or sanding tool {in a pinch, a foot spa sander, or nail sander}
background rubber stamp [ex) script, text, floral, hearts,etc)
stamping waterproof ink [Stampin' Up! Basic Grey or Basic Black]
hanging material [ribbon, wire, twine, etc.]
Decorative Cardstock [ plain for flower, designer paper for banner]
Punch - for flower [example uses SCALLOPED FLOWER punch]
gem or pearl embellishment
stickles or glitter glue [ Stampin' Up! Cherry Cobbler Dazzling Diamonds]
thick glue dots
glue
Instructions
PAINT YOUR WOOD CRAFT ITEM
Paint your wood craft item {my example, the heart} in the colour of choice {mine is lt. blue} and let dry; lightly sand when dry - then repeat the same again.
Take a saucer or small foil tray and dab some white paint into it and add 2 or 3 drops of water and mix. Now you have a ' white wash '. Paint on this white wash over your painted/sanded wood item. The streaks are a good thing! But not wide streaks - blend a little. Do this until your piece is more white than the previous colour. When dry sand lightly. You can sand till the wood shows through on the edges if you like - if you don't like, then just sand so the wood feels smooth. [note- paint 'lifts' the fibers of the wood, it swells it a bit which is why we sand!]
STAMP AWAY!
Now that your piece is painted and prepared - STAMP IT! Take your background rubber stamp, and your ink pad and stamp the entire surface well. NOTE - this is going to work the 'first time' - so practice on paper first to see how well you stamp a large stamp.
When ready, place it over your painted craft item and stamp the design onto it. This took 3 trys for me - as my heart is wider than my stamp and I stamped the center first, then added the remaining side areas.
OK - if you feel you screwed up - or don't like the look of the stamp, just RE-PAINT and start again!
But you like it, so moving on......
Make your embellishment/ FOCAL POINT
A hand-made PUNCH FLOWER is a cool thing these days - they are in every craft project! You could also use a bought flower to save time!
Making a Punch Flower
Punch out several Flower shapes in one or two colours of sturdy weight cardstock. [Stampin' Up! cardstock is sturdy at an average 80 lb weight.] NOTE: you can crumple the cardstock to make forming the flower easier and it gives that shabby chic look!
Next - leave one flower shape intact. That is your foundation piece. After that, take a scissor and snip out a section of one shape and roll the flower like you are making a cone shape - bring the two cut sides together and overlap one section over the opposite side. Glue together and hold till the glue works. You could use a clip to help.
Then snip out 2 sections of the next flower shape and repeat - this time the gap is wider where you cut away the section but requires you to do the same thing - bring the cut edges together, and glue overlapping them so it looks like a complete shape once more.
Then 3 sections on the next one....and so on, till you are done with the punched flower shapes.
When you are finished preparing each of the flower's sections - bend the petals back a little - this takes a little patience {as if the last section didn't,lol}.....but it is possible to bend those back. I use something round like a pen to roll the petals against - and I hold them over my finger while I work the next section. Do your best - and little tears only make it more 'hand-made', so don't sweat it!
NOW - ASSEMBLE YOUR FLOWER - by gluing the smallest section into the next larger section! Flatten the tip of the bottom of your flower a bit, and glue into place. Keep building your flower this way till you are ready to glue it to the flat foundation flower shape. And your are DONE! CONGRATS!
TO FINISH - I added the flower to a banner strip I made from decorative paper. But before I glued the flower on, I added thick glue dots to the back of the banner, the entire length. This allows for it to float above the painted wood piece! Now glue on the flower and when dry, add your decorative piece to the finished wood piece.
TO HANG - add ribbon such as my example. I tied 2 pieces of ribbon, 7 inches each by tying a knot first at one end and inserting the ribbon into the holes leaving the knot to be on the front! Then I stitched the two remaining ends together. You can also do this with one long piece of ribbon - about 14 inches long. Or use twine, wire, etc.
Add beads too! Anything you wish to decorate - use your own ideas!
THANKS FOR STOPPING BY!
HAPPY CRAFTING!
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