The most important part of any project is to be definite on having all your equipment, parts, objects, and art supplies and the desire to let your imagination take flight!
And it is also good if you have a Hubby like I have that will pick up the slack where you fall short, or are unable to do what you used to be able to do… you get my drift…
Below is the step by step birth of my morning project. Actually, I did look yesterday for the vines that were easy to come by just by going to the insert then to clip art section of your word program and then going to the far right, not politically, but if that’s your leanings who am I to tell you what to do. Any-who, I meant on your word page and by now you just insert the object of your search, in my case you can see it was ‘vines’, and many choices should come up as it did with mine. Then it is only a decision on, which one suits you’re specific needs. Most adults I have found are pretty good at making this decision, since it does not involve a life and death one. Then it is your choice to enlarge it or not after you copy and paste it to the blank page, remember mine were just the right size without making them larger. I suspect they magnified it on their own, or not, who knows, but you should care. They ended up being just the right size for my project, making my blah guestroom dresser have a more tropical feel, and since that room has a garden theme with the window valances and, trash can, floral pillows; it just seemed to be just what it needed to complete the sensation of a cheerful garden atmosphere! The room also looks out on the east side to our veggie garden and on the southern exposure side to the patio/ pool area where the bougainvillea frames that overhang, a lovely room really!
After you move your choice vines onto the page and save them; I recommend deciding on just how many you will need to complete the decorating of your object. With mine it was only the four drawer’s worth.
Now is the times to print and then… cut them out, if your background is white like mine you may get away with not cutting too close to the pictures themselves, but remember that is why you saved them, so if you do make a mistake you have more!
Hubby was enlisted for this portion of the project, since my hands are not so agile and do have a tendency to shake a bit, that’s why I gave up cutting his hair a couple of years ago…and for that he is thankful! LOL!
Once they are just right, mine were cut by him in oval shapes and were perfect, but were trimmed when laid out on the table due to wanting a running appearance on the dresser itself, after all it is a vine and that’s what they do, right? The regular typing paper, nothing fancy was decoupage right onto the drawers in the correct order, once affixed I went over them again with the modge podge glue, white Elmer’s works just as well. I just so happen to have the decoupage medium still left in my crafts' drawer in my laundry room. The total cost of the project, $0.00, the look and feeling it gives to the room priceless! In the last of my PICS is the completed dresser, but with my plastic drop cloth in front and that tiny jar on top in the glue that made it all come together! Once it all dries it will be basically impermeable. We had decoupaged a trunk about eight years ago with all the different fish of Florida that Hubby cut out too from a magazine from the Florida Fish and Game that gave you all the different kinds with instructions on which ones could be fished and that trunk has been cleaned over and over again and none have budged in all these years!
On that note of a happy one,
can’t beat tangible evidence of pretty, allow me to be the very first to wish
all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your
blessings and share those overages with you know who and we will too!
And next time please be here
or be square, ya hear?!