Watering Can Decor

 Hi friends! 

Today I am sharing just a quick rundown of how I decorated this watering can. 

The watering can is a wood kit from Not Just Frames. You can get one here: Garden Watering Can 

I used paint and stain. I used adhesive vinyl and this file from Silhouette Design Store: Garden Word Art 

More direction on the supplies I used are provided below.

 

~Paula

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6" Halloween Sign by Not Just Frames

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Today I share this 6" Halloween sign by Not Just Frames.

I always open the kit and lay it to help figure out how it goes together and what colors I would like for the design.

I know I want the piece on the left to be stained and I want to include some neon colors. I love neon and use it a lot for Halloween and Summer projects. 

I don't always feel like going outside with some real stain so today I am using a brown acrylic paint. I add some water to it and apply it to the sign. I wipe off access moisture and do it again. 

I decide I want it to be even darker than that and maybe a little grungy but not too grungy. I did the same thing as the brown but with black. Instead of wiping it off, I blot it off then set aside to dry. 

I chose to add yellow neon under the bats and moons piece and pain the top of the circle and that piece purple. I chose neon orange for the letters. Gray for the bats. I painted the ghost white but also added glow-in-the-dark paint as a top coat.

All glued together! Look at the beautiful neon! And when the lights go down....

You can get one here and also check out all the other 6" circles to choose from. 

https://notjustframes.com/products/6?bg_ref=fNskNuVwRr

There is also a stand you can order for them. I already have a log that I got from my woodpile and put a hook on it.

~Paula

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Papers are just from my collection. I always grab from my scraps first and I don’t keep track of where they came from.

Kicking off Christmas in July with ornaments by Not Just Frames

 Hi Friends!

I am kicking off Christmas in July! Christmas in July is really a campground holiday as many families gather for family reunions and fun during this time and has evolved to celebrate Christmas now instead of in the winter when it is harder to travel. However, many crafters start working on their inventory for their upcoming holiday events and suppliers start rolling out special sales this month. I will be working on some of that but I won't actually be sharing all of it because I like to keep some things secret until my annual sale closer to the holiday. 

Yesterday and today I painted these beautiful primitive and farmhouse ornaments by Not Just Frames. 

They are not all one set. 

I started off as usual laying all the pieces out on my table to make sure I had them all and I understood where each piece goes. There are a lot of pieces with these spindle ornaments but that are so easy to figure out where each one belongs. 

I knew I wanted to use stain on the back ground of some of these. Although it is a nice day today, I didn't feel like going outside to use stain. I have what I call "indoor stain" as I found this product that can stain wood, has no odor, and is non-toxic. It comes in 4 shades and is perfect for small projects like this. 

It is thick like acrylic paint so I prefer to apply it by glopping it on with a wet brush and wiping the excess off.

I wouldn't do furniture with this but it works really great for crafts. 

Here are the four colors, left to right: cherry, walnut, oak, and maple.

I continue by keeping all the teeny bits on my tray while I painted each one.

I always feel that chalk paint is what goes with farmhouse and primitive pieces so I used mostly that. 

As I painted each piece, I placed it on their ornament background so I would know if I missed any. 

I decided that I didn't like the cherry stain as the background for stocking so I added chalk paint in a white to it and it brought up some of the cherry stain and turned pink. 

It was not what I had planned in my head but I ended up liking the end result as it looked better with the red stocking than the cherry stain. 

I glued ALL the pieces.

I did some light sanding on all the finished pieces to scuff them up just a little. I then added twine for hanging.

~Paula

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Joy Ornaments 

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