this is what it looks like in the end W/O THE PICTURE. (i'm sure you needed that bolded because you just really couldn't tell if there was a picture there or not.
i purchased this frame at DI for $1. That's right, folks, one dollar.
i taped over the glass like so because the glass on this frame was glued in.
i did a quick coat of normal acrylic paint to kind of set it up.
because i'm impatient, i definitely use a hair dryer to dry the paint. it works, i promise.
when that was done, i painted the raised pieces of wood black.
the part that i don't have a picture of is me in the garage spray painting this frame after i had dried and taped the black strips on the frame. i also used a hair dryer out there to make it dry quickly.
on my trusty cricket i printed out different fonts of the words "stop and smell the roses"
me being the spacey girl that i am, i thought that i wanted to paint the letters on.
this is after it was painted and when i took the paper off...DUH! it looked terrible, the paint had bled everywhere, i didn't want to take a picture of it. that's how BAD it was.
so i went back to this step. i painted it again with approximately 64 layers of acrylic paint and then exactly 243 layers of spray paint. in all, i think i increased the thickness of this baby by at least two inches.
i finally just cut out the words on black paper with my cricket, and modge podged them on. it was pretty intense. how i finished in one day, i'm still not sure.
this is the end result and i have the most adorable picture to put in it. my nephew is bending over, sticking his nose inside a flower at temple square. i'm still not sure if i should give it to my sister-in-law, or maybe my mom (his grandma). hmmm...we'll see. all the underneath layers of paint will dry before Christmas. next year. if i'm lucky. :)
xoxo CPTVPT
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