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Sunshine!!

Posted by Leanne on May 15, 2012 20 comments

The weather here lately has been AMAZING!! A little shocking, but I have been LOVING it!! And because of that, I am going to write this post as quick as possible… I need to get outside and play with my girls, and do a little spray painting in between! (I know, spray painting!! I’ve never done it before, but I have the perfect project for it, so I’m going to give it a try!)

So enjoy this: You Are My Sunshine!! I am loving this buttery-smooth beauty!!

You are my Sunshine!

I first painted the board in white... then added Vaseline in the areas I wanted easily distressed.... then a coat of yellow (Martha Stewart's Cornbread)... when it was dry, I gave it a sanding, and love how the sanded areas blend together so smoothly...

... I had created the "stencil" on Picnic.com, before they closed their site... I used Blockposter.com to get the sizing I wanted, and printed it out on my printer...

... I had to play with the layout a bit to get it to fit perfectly....

... I used newspaper as my transfer method... lay down paper, place stencil on top, use ball point pen and trace the words... and it transfers like....

...magic!...

I used my Sharpie Paint Pen to paint the words in.... and ta-da!

You are my Sunshine!

If you are loving it, I have this exact one on hand for you right now! Check out my For Sale page if you are interested!

thanks so much for reading, and I hope you are having an awesome week!!

xo, Leanne

oh my, I just remembered I was going to blog about Mother’s Day!! LOL! I had a fabulous Mother’s Day weekend! I hope you did too? Maybe I’ll blog about it a bit tomorrow for you!

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You Are My Sunshine…

Posted by Leanne on December 9, 2011 6 comments

I had been playing with the idea of making my baby a “you are my sunshine” sign for her room, but I knew the other kids would get jealous about it… You have to think about those things!! But here is how I solved it, new to our Master bedroom,

When I saw this on Pinterest,

my problem was solved.

I was almost done my photo canvases, which I posted about yesterday, so I quickly whipped up the sign.

I bought my canvas at Dollarama (yes, we have one now in our town, and it’s AMAZING!), for $1.25, and again, I had the rest of the supplies on hand.

I gave the canvas an uneven coat of white paint (I wanted the canvas to look a little vintage too, to match the photos)

wrote out the words with stencils (Walmart sells stencils for super-cheap, plus others were from the dollar store).

I painted in the letters with graphite paint, and gave the O in “love” a turquoise heart. Then, with all 4 canvases, I took some turquoise paint, added the same amount of water to it, brushed it onto the edges, and wiped it off with a damp towel. This was just to give a little extra dimension to them. And I love them!

hmmm… I did make the bed, looks more wrinkled on photos than it did in real life!!

What do you think? My hubby thinks having pictures of the kids over the bed takes away from the “romance”. I told him to close his eyes.

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