FISH OR MERMAID?..

 Hello everyone,

Once, long ago, I was surfing the net [as my son tells me] and came across a store  that cuts wooden shapes, loke horses heads, hearts, stars, and of cause tails, Fish or Mermaid, I guess it is your choice..

So I bought quite a bit and never used it, maybe one heart, but vowed and declared I must branch out, so pushing the coasters to the back shelf , I fished out my Fish tail and decorated it..also a blast from the past, big brown heavy picture frames, all getting a make over and doing about 6 projects at once..that is always fun, except the camera ends up with well over 200 pictures I then have to edit..ugh!..

So here is my project..

The tail, plain brown thin mdf board..10 inches tall.

and getting a chalk paint coating is a soft blue..

Then  stencil and using modelling paste..

Then I added a sprinkling of glitter from a great height..

Another stencil [TH one]

and used gold glimmer past through it, 

Then had to move the stencil up to get to the top, not too bad.

Lovely glimmer shine..

Now what?..this was about day 3.

I had these strings and self sticky flat backed pearls in my stash,

so popped them in between the gold bits..

Then onto this huge heavy frame, out went the grandkids and in came the white gesso..

Mmmm, yellow coming through..

Did you wash the frame first Christine, no I didn't, 

so there go, wash your frames first!!

The back wood panel was painted in blue chalk paint..

And I spread my bits on it after adding white sponged dots in the background..

Pretty clusters...

Die cut leaves and some shells...

Big glass bubble...

Can see the white sponged spots in this picture..

Inside the frame, but the yellow was stressing me out, I need to fix it..

See the yellow..

added another coat , this time white water paint..

then sanded it, removed quite a bit of paint and the natural wood came through..

Photo bomb!!

So distressed it and photographed it and the yellow is still there,

 but not in real life.

I actually distressed it even more after all this and possibly.

 a photo is lurking in my files somewhere.

Thank you so much for stopping by..

I hope you all have a wonderful Easter and a nice long weekend..

I'll see you next week, I have to put an end to all these projects, one is enormous lot of work, but having a great time and will share for sure later on..

Luv CHRISSYxx

Challenges to enter..

Creative Inspirations Challenge  [anything goes]

Through the Purple Haze  [For the Girls]

Elibelle's Crafty Wednesday   [anything goes]

Fab n Funky   [use die cuts]

Classic Design   [anything goes]

Mirtillamente Challenge  [I went with fish]

The Creative Crafters   [anything goes]