ART IS BEAUTY: May 2012

Monday, May 28, 2012

Nauty Nautical Freezer Paper Stencil Throw pillows

This was my first ever Freezer Paper Stencil transfer.
I thought it was a fun NAUTY little tutorial. :)

I had found these pillows last week at Goodwill

They were only $1.99. and to my surprise when I unzipped them I found this nice tag..

Yup Pottery Barn pillows for $1.99. .....SCORE...

I loved the color and the texture of the pillow with the nice little muslin edging, BUT
I thought they lacked UMPHHH!!! So I googled how to make a freezer paper stencil.
Basically you cut a piece of FREEZER Paper the size of your printer paper.
You put the paper in your printer..Only one sheet at a time with the dull side for
the print side. When the ink is dry you take and exacto knife and cut out your pattern.
The pattern I chose was this cute little anchor from THE GRAPHICS FAIRY.

When you are done cutting out the pattern you iron the shiny side down onto your fabric.
Make sure to seal your edges.

When it cools you paint in your stencil I used a mix of acrylic and fabric paint,
because my fabric paint was too dark and I didn't want a totally stark white with my acrylic.
When the paint is dry you pull off your stencil. Then when the paint is totally dry you lay a cloth over
your painted area and use the iron to set the paint.

When its done..This is what you get. I now have 2 very nauty Nautical pillows.
It was easier than I thought and I am now wondering why I waited so long to try this.
I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you all have a wonderful and safe Memorial Day.

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French Graphic and Vintage sheet Antique table and Chairs makeover

So here is my latest project AKA, get this crap out of the Garage..LOL!
Its funny how you find things when you do. I have had a bunch of chairs forever and no table.
Well, My sister called me one day and told me she was at Goodwill and they had this yellow table for 14.99. She wasn't sure I would like it cause it was yellow and old. I told her to hold it for me.

So I get there and this is the table..SHAAAAA of course I LOVED IT!!
(also notice the mug she got me...ahhhh sisterly love..LOL)
So I threw it in my suburban and brought her home.

It would now join 2 of these three chairs.

I had painted the chairs in a bored moment with some of my CeCe caldwell paint and recovered them in a different fabric, but when I saw this table, I knew......They need the vintage sheets I had been saving. So I recovered them again and since the sheets are thinner I used and old tshirt as an additional barrier.

and covered them with this beautiful sheet I was saving.

I knew I needed something FRENCH for this table. :) So I got one of my FAVORITE graphics from
the graphics fairy that I had been saving.

I used my carbon paper to transfer it on and started Painting..

Once it was done drying I distressed it and added some of the blue paint from the chairs in a dry brush technique on the top, to bring it all together.