Button painting tutorial

12/14/2008

Cabinet Progress

The cabinet came unassembled which is great as it was easy to paint all the parts red and start on the cabinet door. First I stenciled it with an old thrift store stencil. If you look closely at the stencil you will see that it is far wider than the little panel and only has 4 pansies. So I just stenciled the 3 center pansies in white and then shifted the stencil a few times to make a tight bunch of 6 pansies and then I just shifted it a bit to stencil the greenery...
After it was stenciled white I proceeded to fill it in with craft paints. It saves drawing time and is like using a coloring book almost and the easiest way to replicate an image. Unfortunately the flash sucked the color out of the pansies but will get a better color shot later. Will stencil sides today.

3 comments:

  1. WOW!!! You ROCK!! That is one jazzed up beside nook!!! WOOHOO!!!

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  2. This is going to be so pretty, Gerry. Love the red and love the pansies!

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  3. What a clever idea to do the stencil first in white! It'll be a lovely piece when you've finished.

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