I've got another Live with Prima inspired project for ya'll today. This one is inspired by Julie's Antique frame show on June 20th. I really like how she used a Prima stencil to transfor a plain wooden from into a work of art. Of course this meant I had to try it too, but since I am more of a silver person I tweaked it some. Before I worked on the frame I bought a cheap wooden oval (under $1) from Michael's to test wether I wanted white or black gesso as my base. (You'll see what I am going to do with the oval next week). The test revealed that a black base still works the best with the silver, so off I went making an antique, punch metal inspired frame for a cheap mirror from Micheale's. I left the mirror in when I took the picture and that resulted in seeing me, the camera, and the sticky-note. I am really happy with the end product and so glad I decided to try out the technique Julie showed us :) Drying time between the different coats took the longest time, but using a heat gun does spead it up.
I used some seam binding and twine to wrap around the frame in the corner and the bow. I secured the ribbon on the back with Helmar's 450 quick dry glue. A great thing about Prima's vines is that it doesn't take much make a project shine. It was tacked down with Helmar's 450 too. I sprayed a white Prima flower with several differnt colors of TA's Glimmer Mist to match it as close as I could to the purple-y color flower at the top of the vine for the center of the bow and glued it to the center of the bow with Helmar's 450 (gotta love this stuff).
I couldn't let this sweet frame be complete without a sweet little butterfly. I took one of Prima's Vlinder butterflies and several colors of Glimmer Mist again and colored the butterfly to match a little more. After it was dried, I then took some TA's Chandiler Glitter Glam and painted the butterfly with it to really shine. I attached this little beauty with Helmar's scrapdots to help it lift off from behind the vine.
Finally, here's a shopt of the detail of the frame itself. I used Prima's Stencil Mask Set, Sublime Mix Screens - Mix 3 for the details. I believe Julie used gesso to cover the screen with, but I found some molding paste (with a 40% off coupon) and used that instead. Once the molding paste was dried I brushed on some silver paint making sure to at least cover all of the white paste. When I was happy with that (and I did paint the edges too) I too some very watered down balck paint (like shown in the video) and washed it over the silver. It dulled it down and even puddled in parts. I love how forgiving this was. And if I didn't like it I could just paint over it or even wipe it up if it wasn't dry yet.
