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Showing posts with label decoupage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label decoupage. Show all posts

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Busy morning...

My Wednesday didn't start very well...

My Daughter needed to be in school earlier that usual...(we are not a morning family)
My Husband asked me to take her...(not my job)
I mumbled some bad words in Spanish (don't know why, everybody understands Spanish in this house) and accepted.

Not before checking out my White Wednesdays Girls.

And...HELLO!!...there is Joan from Anything Goes Here brightening up my day with her French Eggs.
Pure Inspiration.

On my way from the school, still in my pajama bottoms, I stopped at Walmart and came home with these...

and by 9:30 am in the morning I have made these for my house...


and these for the Country Roads space...

It was 9:30 in the morning and I had not had any breakfast, the beds were not made and the laundry and my morning shower were waiting, but sometimes you have to be flexible in order to have some fun.

Thank you for the inspiration Joan!!

LINKED TO:
THE SHABBY NEST



Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Decoupage issues...

Waiting for the Decoupage Medium to dry, always makes us nervous.
Why?



Decoupaged Ironstone Platter Take 1: wrinkles!

Decoupaged Ironstone Platter Take 2: More wrinkles

Decoupaged Ironstone Platter Take 3: you know...

We finally got it right!

and once we did, we couldn't stop...


Practice makes it perfect!!

TIP:
To avoid the wrinkles, we glued the image to our plates using spray glue.
Huge difference! The image dried perfectly flat, a light decoupage medium coat was applied later to protect the image.

Our own digital work using graphics from:
The graphics fairy
Playing with brushes

Linked to:
The Shabby Chic Cottage
The Shabby Nest

Thursday, February 25, 2010

We are...

not ready for retirement!

That's what a couple of very old,
plain,
somehow beat up to perfection
enamel bowls told us when we walked by...

And you know what?
They were right!




What are antiques whispering in your ear today?


BOTH SOLD!


Linked to:
Sanctuary Arts at Home
The shabby nest
The DIY showoff

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

From shabby to chic...

Remember that cute folding table we rescued from the garage?...The one we decoupaged with music sheet?...This one! Well, it sold right away to a very nice customer, we love when our goodies find good homes to go to!
Anyway, the music sheet and the white paint we used on that project, inspired this last creation. Also found in the garage, this time Clara's, an old glass cupboard door with an added back, perfect for a big shadowbox...


Painted a not very attractive black....more shabby than chic...


We started the transformation by adding a sheet of poster foam to the back, we then decoupaged it with vintage music sheets using lots of decoupage medium. The last step was the white paint and a little distress...everything looks better with crisp white paint, doesn't it?...



The old garage find became a nice display piece...from Andrea's jewelry to Lynda's bottle, everything looks yummy in there...





...to sell or not too sell? that's is the question!! The answer is: to sell!!...This is one of the goodies we are saving for our Arcade Extravaganza on April 5th.
The buyer will also take home 5 of the stylish black and white push pins we used to hold everything in place...love them!!