New Sign for the Door

I had a kid's class today making name plaques, so I got to decorate one too. Carla asked if I could do one for the shop's front door as the current one is looking a bit tired. The one for the kid's class is much simpler as it was for eight year olds. The girls worked with pink based papers but I wanted to use a blue tone on mine.

I painted the wooden plaque with a mixture of crackle and acrylic paint, before adding different distress inks to give it a weathered look. The paper was sprayed, inked and stenciled before being stuck down on the plaque.

I brushed on two coats of crackle paint on the chipboard letters before adding a darker ink around the edges. Flowers, trinkets and pearls are bunched around before being stuck down with hot glue.

I used UTEE to stiffen the paper butterfly before adding pearls and antennae. Flowers were either inked or trimmed in Stickles to make them pop.

Products Used
Wooden plaque from Kaisercraft
Paper from the My Mind's Eye Follow Your Heart collection
Chipboard alphas cut with Word Play Die from Tim Holtz Alterations for Sizzix
Flowers and trinkets are a range from Prima, Kaisercraft and locally sourced
Crackle Distress paint and Distress Inks from Tim Holtz for Ranger
Timber Brown Staz On Inks from Tsukineko
Stickles and Perfect Pearl Mists from Ranger Inks