Hello
Darlings,
I
hope this early warm and breezes Saturday morning finds you either all shopped
out from last night, or ready to grab up today's specials.
As
for me I am relaxing today, but I wanted to share with you my completed
makeover of the box crosses I found early this week while browsing one of our local
thrift shops. Since they appear to have been molded with some type of acrylic
and painted to look like wood carvings, I decided against re-staining and went
with distressing instead.
To
distress the box crosses I used the same color scheme of the lamps I repaired
earlier this year, which is black and copper. I began by covering a portion of
the inner frame, the leaves and the crosses with painter's tape. Once that was done, I sprayed everything with
a black satin paint and let them dry for a day.
After
the black paint was dried, I removed the painter's tape, and hand painted the
leaves, the inner frame, and the crosses with the metallic copper paint. Once
the copper paint had dried about eight hours, I added a thin layer of the black
paint, and let them set a half an hour. I then gently wiped away some of the
black paint with paper towels to expose the copper paint beneath giving the
frames their distressed look.
Again,
I let the paint dry for a day, then brushed on some fast drying clear satin
polyurethane to finish and set them aside for 18 hours. Below is the finish project all nicely hung.
Although
the satin finish looks more glossier than I intended, still I like the
result.
Until next time,
Chow, Darlings
