Tales from the Weekend

Had a busy busy weekend but before I get onto that I wanted to share a couple of pieces decorated in a shabby style, first up are these wooden wall candle holders I got from Country Love Crafts.





Once decorated they look look great on the wall in the dining room!

Carrying on with the shabby theme, I picked up this box with handle from The Stamp Attic on Saturday.

This is the transformation and it now holds flavoured olive oils!
PS It also holds wine bottles perfectly ;)

On sunday I taught a private crop and we made shabby book boxes like the one below, unfortunately the french on this is wrong but it was corrected for the day :)

I will post some pictures of their finished boxes soon as they all looked amazing!

Ok onto Saturday, Here are all the altered Ikea mirrors produced on the scrapyard challenge workshop I held  at The Stamp Attic, same technique but all so very different! It was good to catch up with everyone again.

Thanks for reading,

Andy

Anaglypta Frame

Here is a great way to up-cycle that old plain frame and give it a shabby vintage look using anaglypta wallpaper.

Glue the wallpaper to the frame, I used Decoart Decoupage.
After a few layers of paint and a final antiquing with Raw Umber this old frame looked so much better.
I am going to be putting a tutorial together on this soon before anyone asks :).

Ok, I have been quiet on here because of soooo much work but will post some recent stuff... I know many of you already follow my Facebook page but for those of you who do not but want to keep updated more regular here is the link, My Facebook Page

Clean and Simple Canvas

Traditions Acrylic on Canvas.
I wanted to paint a canvas but keep it simple for a change without the use of any mediums, here is the result, lots of fun doing this.

Moving on from Clean and simple here is another using lots of Decoart Mediums, specially loving the crackle on this.

Young Einstein.

Hopefully that's brought you all up to date, sorry this is a bit brief, need to get back to it.

Thanks for reading.

Andy