Since my poor son has been sick, nothing serious just a cold, this week I had a ton of hanging out in the house time. My sister brought over a round wooden pizza thing she found at a yard sale. So I sanded it, spray painted it and drilled a hole in it so she could hang it up in her kitchen. I found a wonderful blog called Graphicfairy. She posts awesome vintage pictures and sayings that are FREE and PRINTABLE! So we found a great chocolate saying in french. We took turns tracing it in pencil, because there was a lot of detail and then rubbed it on. I used the same method for the ones above. Then I traced it with a black fine point sharpie. Both of these projects were free. I had the white board, which was a never used drawer front that I have had forever and the other is a wonderful hand-made cutting board from my dad. He gave it to me in 2002 and I have made good use of it, but I don't like to use it too much because it's pretty and I want it to be that way forever. So I traced the picture and now have it on display in my kitchen! The white one above is my own design. It's french and means,"welcome to our home". The door knocker and key are from the Graphic Faries' website. Now I just keep looking around the house to see what else I can trace another picture on to! Let me know what you think.
One of the definitions of revival is to recover, repair or restore. Very fitting for what I like to do.
Monday, July 18, 2011
New Obsession-Print+Trace=AWESOME
Since my poor son has been sick, nothing serious just a cold, this week I had a ton of hanging out in the house time. My sister brought over a round wooden pizza thing she found at a yard sale. So I sanded it, spray painted it and drilled a hole in it so she could hang it up in her kitchen. I found a wonderful blog called Graphicfairy. She posts awesome vintage pictures and sayings that are FREE and PRINTABLE! So we found a great chocolate saying in french. We took turns tracing it in pencil, because there was a lot of detail and then rubbed it on. I used the same method for the ones above. Then I traced it with a black fine point sharpie. Both of these projects were free. I had the white board, which was a never used drawer front that I have had forever and the other is a wonderful hand-made cutting board from my dad. He gave it to me in 2002 and I have made good use of it, but I don't like to use it too much because it's pretty and I want it to be that way forever. So I traced the picture and now have it on display in my kitchen! The white one above is my own design. It's french and means,"welcome to our home". The door knocker and key are from the Graphic Faries' website. Now I just keep looking around the house to see what else I can trace another picture on to! Let me know what you think.
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Love it!
ReplyDeleteYou did an amazing job. I have tried transferring from yhr Graphics Fairy but my transfers don't do her pieces justice. Any chance you could do a tutorial?
ReplyDeleteSorry for the typos on my i pad without my readers!
ReplyDeleteI really like these!! I will have to check this Graphics Fairy out! I would also be interested in you doing a tutorial. How exactly do you trace it onto the wood?
ReplyDeleteYes, I would love to do a tutorial for everybody! And thanks for checking out my blog!
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