Putting Pinterest to Practice

For this project I decided to merge two pins on pinterest. One being the photo transfer on 11x14 canvas with vinyl letter stickers and antiqued stain. The other being this sweet photograph with caption. I used a picture of Luke and his first time at the beach playing in the sand.

Vintage Style Photo Transfers

At the Round Top antique show last month I came upon a vendor that had tents and tents of antique toys and games. Since I dont really have a use for buckets of this stuff and also because its not cheap, I decided to use my camera to capture the images and use them as image transfers on canvases for the play room. So here are the five pictures I decided to use. The dice photo is my favorite.

Once I painted canvases and transferred the photos, this is what they looked like

Here is Luke and his first hunting weapon my Dad was so proud to purchase. What you are looking at is a gun that shoots this fan on a string and kills insects (mosquitoes, flies, spiders). Savage. I pretend like its dumb but secretly I might just have to use this.

Putting Pinterest to Practice...

What good is Pinterest if you don't put those ideas to use, right? This weekend I decided to put some of my pins to the test.


First, I decided to make my friend Whitney a jar for her kitchen originally found here

Materials:

• Glass jar
• Chalkboard spray paint
  
• Plastic animal hot glued to lid
• Red spray paint

To make this was easy. I hot glued a plastic animal to the top of a glass jar. I spray painted the lid and the animal shiny red and also spray painted the sides of the jars with chalkboard paint so that she could change the label to reflect what treasures she has inside. So easy!



I was pretty pleased with how it turned out.

For my next project, I decided to master the ever illusive photo transfer as seen here. I tried it on a mat board but plan to make a couple out of canvas since it turned out so well. I used a picture of Luke from last Halloween that I happened to have on my computer at school.

Materials:

• mat board
• 5x7 laser print out
• gel medium
• spray bottle filled with water

To do this you have to print your photo on a laser printer, a xerox printer will not work. After you print out your photo, cover your canvas (or mat board) with a thick coat of the gel medium. Once you have coated it, you will put the image face down onto the canvas. Smooth out the picture so it adheres well. After you have waited about 4 hours, get your spray bottle and spray the back of the picture with water. Let it soak in. When the picture is thoroughly wet, use your finger to rub off the back of the paper. Do so gently and it will leave the transferred image behind. It will start to rub the image off if you press too hard or do too much. A little bit of removed image helps give it a distressed look. You might have to re-wet the image to get all of the paper off. Once you are finished, give it one final coat of the gel medium to bond it to the canvas. Voila! Now you have a beautiful transferred image.

I can't wait to make some transferred images canvases for Pierce's new room.

What a sweet boy I have.

Wondering what I found at Round Top, the greatest antique fair in the world? I thought you were. Well without further suspense...here it is!




1. A transformer car LUKE CAN DO BY HIMSELF! Yes! And an amazing Optimus Prime helmet with a voice activator so that you too can be a transformer.

2. A pirate speedo for Luke because they just really are so adorable on little boys (Don't worry, I wont put him in them over the age of 5). 3. Baby legs that actually look like they are for boys, my life is complete. 4. Shorts I may or may not be able to fit into someday.

5. A tiny metal stamp holder shaped like a mailbox. 6. Pierce spelled in childrens' blocks. 7. A bingo card. 8. B is for Bear, Pierce Bear, from a vintage letterman's jacket.

9. Vintage comic book postcards. 10. A P from an old sign. 11. A metal flip scoreboard with the numbers 0-4. Great for pictures to show boys age??

12. Vintage license plates from Texas, Michigan, and Louisiana just because the colors are great.

As you can tell, I am working on decorating Pierce's room in a more vintage look. Cant wait till Round Top comes around again in March.