First I have a couple of ”business” things to mention 
First, I participated in a cool idea put on by Heather from Inspire Me Heather. She created “What I Like About Your Blog” which allowed us to sign up, and get critiqued by other bloggers. I received some awesome feed back, so you will start to see a few minor changes to my blog… including a new Facebook Page! I’d love for you to Like my new page, and you can find the ”Like” on my side bar (right on top of the follow me on Pinterest button *hint hint*). Plus another feed back is that I don’t even have my name on my blog! Not so personal! It’s those little things you don’t even think of, that other people notice, so if you ever have some feedback you think would help make my blog better, I’d love to hear it! …come to think of it, I think I forgot to mention my name on my Facebook Page!! ~I’ll get to it soon! My daughter is bugging me for the computer… she wants to play her sesame street games!! (she’s 3!)
But first I want to write this post, I’m very excited about it, it was a bit of a challenge for me, just because things kept going not-quite-right, but I LOVE the way it turned out.
For Christmas I had pulled another niece’s name for Christmas, so along with a bunch of other things she asked for, I made her this:
I began with a piece of pine, did a coat of brown paint, and then an uneven coat of white paint...
I played with the fonts on the computer, and printed it off...
I colored the back of the quote with pencil, then traced onto the board...
I had read on a few blogs that they used black Sharpie felt to color in the words… so for convenience I gave this a try. It worked fine, but when I sanded, all the letters smeared! Although this look would be cute on the right piece, this was not the right piece for that look!…
...so I painted it over with a thin coat of white...
...this time I painted the letters with a graphite colored paint...
...I then sanded the whole thing, distressed the edges, and added brown paint to the corners...
...and promptly wiped it off to enhance the distressing...
..made my glaze - 1/2 brown paint, 1/2 water... and glazed the whole board (wipe on, wipe off)...
and ta-da!
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AWESOME project and AWESOME idea about blogging critique!! I may try to set something up Like that!!! TOO FUN!!!
I know, right? SO helpful!
This turned out SO lovely!! I’m going to have to try this!! Thanks for sharing at Oopsey Daisy!
Absolutely!
I love your tutorial and the words you painted. Fun! I am your newest follower.
Eilis
my-heart-lives-here-blogspot.com
Thank you Eilis!! And welcome! I’m so happy to have you!
Just love it!
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much, Duane!
I’ve been rabid over subway art the past week. Reading tutorials, deciding which transfer method I want to try, etc. etc., but what you said that had me go OH YEAH was about gifting this to a niece. My light bulb came on for gifts in 2012, be it birthday’s or Christmas. My God children, grand kids and any other people I gift too are getting personalized subway art. Bet you didn’t know you were a genius!
~Bliss~
I did not know, but thank you!!
It’s fantastic that my post helped you! It was a light bulb moment for me too, when I realized how I could transfer the words… kinda brings back elementary school days, doesn’t it?!