I love anything old! Tell me its older than me, and I'm practically in love. My parents replaced the windows on the front of their house, and I was rewarded with several 'vintage' window frames for my artsy pleasure!! I was not smart enough to take before after pictures (which I will strive to do now when i re-work a project) but here are final shots. It is taken with my Android phone, so the quality isn't
great. One day, I will own an actual camera again, until I break that one too.
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| The frame has great shape! |
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| The distressing was fun to do, first time ever. |
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| Straight on, brings nice color to my drab apartment walls. |
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| Be sure to use detailed paper! Go the extra mile and use some scrap booking skills to create a window pane of memories. |
I used a mix of several blue/turquoise acrylic paints to paint the wood frame. Once dry, I then did a brown watercolor 'wash' to give it a rustic look. There are some really cool 'drippings' that you can't see in the picture. Then, I simply cut and pasted some beautiful scrap booking paper to the back of the window facing front. I used double sided clear tape (the red crafty one) so you wouldn't notice the tape. It is there if you look REALLY hard. Be creative with the paper!! The top left and bottom right, I actually embellished with scrap paper from the other cuts, but there is so much more you can actually do.
I've seen project similar to this, where each from resembled a scrapbook with photos, memorabilia, etc. Quite charming.
This window pane now hangs in my bedroom! Love it!
