Good Morning fellow bloggers. It's a little bit warmer this Saturday in March, but I'm beginning to wonder if old man winter will ever leave and give us a little bit of Spring. I have a little project that I did and it looks springy and the colors remind me of Spring. Here is the before picture. It was just a little piece of wood that someone had carved (probably thinking of Spring, too) and I forgot to take the original picture before I slapped some kilz on it.
I had decided that I wanted to paint this piece using some soft colors. I choose a pink, a light yellow,a soft turquoise and a lavender and of course, a soft green. I used acrylic paints that you find at Michael's or at Joann's. I painted the whole piece and than found some sparkly paint that was clear and some that had some gold speckles in it and I painted that over the paint..
When everything had dried, out came the sandpaper. I sanded just in certain parts to give that shabby feeling.
As you can see the sparkly paint shows up just a little bit, but I think it gives it a shabby, girly look to the carving. Where I had sanded the original wood comes thru and adds to the look.
Here is the piece all done and in a wall grouping. I think it gives the wall-grouping a little bit of Spring? What do you think?
Have a great Saturday. Until next time, Dianne...................
Linked to these great parties:http://www.positivelysplendid.com/2013/03/spring-hop-link-party.html
http://www.bedifferentactnormal.com/2013/03/show-tell-saturday-032313.html
http://tatertotsandjello.com/2013/03/world-label-giveaway.html
http://iamonly1woman.blogspot.com/
http://www.thegirlcreative.com/2013/03/17/just-something-i-whipped-up-6.html
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