Thursday, January 17, 2013

More Rug Painting~

A few years back my husband bought 2 of these  jute rugs to use as bathmats in our master bathroom. I liked them, but they just did not go with the decor of the room.  So what did I decide to do?  WELL ~ Paint them of course!!
  The first thing I did was cover the entire area with a primer to cover the dark leaves. In addition to using the primer I also used a textile medium to help the rugs keep the softness.  I used another coat of soy paint in a mushroom color to tone down the starkness of the primer~
 I then traced my favorite decorative art piece onto the prepped rugs making sure it was centered and even on all sides~
This is what I ended up with and since I was happy with this I continued on~
II was thrilled to find these soy paints at Michael's~
The background color looks more white than the soy mushroom  paint I used but I am okay with that. My final job was to color in the trace lines and for that I grabbed  a gold sharpie.  Now that I am looking at this picture I think I need to make the lines darker so that the design will stand out more~
Do you agree??
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Friday, January 11, 2013

ROYAL Headboards~

The day we found out I was pregnant with my angels we were thrilled and we started calling them Prince A~Prince B & Princess C!  To us they were the most important people in the world and the greatest & most wonderful Gifts from GOD!  They were ROYALTY!  If you have been following me you will know that I have a huge collection of crowns all for the angels~
Since I decorated their bedrooms in a "royal" theme I thought it would be great to have different headboards other than the crib headboards we had, but I did not want to spend a lot of money since I tend to change decor often.  My husband is in the real estate development  business & when I would go to his office I noticed he had tons of foam core that he uses for projects that is when it hit me!  Foam core is easy to cut, so light weight & should it fall, heaven forbid it would not hurt either of my angels. I made these just a few months before I knew what a blog was.
Here is the process I used to make them~
 First I started by cutting the foam core I used a huge clock (now a chalk board) I have to make the circular part I then covered it with an Ikea duvet insert~
I hot glued the insert and the fabric.  Oh by the way I actually used drapery blackout fabric, like all fabric it has two sides ha-ha one side feels like fabric and the other side looks & feels like plastic it kind of has a sheen to it.  I used the side that has a bit of sheen on the outside.  I used this side because I knew it wold be easy to wipe off should it get stained~
This is what it looks like when I finished doing the first glue down. I needed to do some fine tuning to make it taut~
I could not wait to see what it would look like in the angels bedroom.  I bought the beautiful crown at Hobby Lobby~
As you can see I was not able to get it completely smooth, but I knew that the next step would pull it to look smooth~
Guess what I used?  Come on guess~
If you guessed brads then you are so correct!  Yea, for you.  I bought these at a great price as I was needing tons I hit the jackpot.  I knew I could not leave them as is so this is what I did~ 
 I gave each & everyone of these brads a key so that I could paint them with oil rubbed bronze spray paint.  I stuck them into a pool noodle that I cut and painted them~
 I measured 4 inches down from the top & drew a line with a sewing pen (so I can erase it once I was done (with water)) I then measured a brad for spacing purposes (see the red lines) & placed the brads accordingly~ Don't they look perfect?


I thought I should take a picture to show you what it looks like once it is all done.  I hot glued all of the brads so that the angels would not be able to remove them & to attach the crown I used some fishing line & glue, you can see from this picture I need to re inforce the crown with probable some buttons to keep the angels from pulling it off as this one is!!
 This is the first one I made. Notice that the demilune is larger in one of them~
I took this picture because it was stained & I wanted to show you before & after pictures of how easy it s to wipe off the stain with a little peroxide & rag~
All clean~
Close Up Shot~
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