Lettering

Entry for today, I would like to do a tutorial in doing lettering on the project's surface. For quick and easy solution, usually I used WordArt. What u have to do, You open Microsoft Word, and click button 'Insert' at the top of the page. Then search for WordArt and then click that button.



When u click WordArt button, It will show as above and you have to choose the word style that you like.


Right after you click that, it will show as above. And you can type the phrase that you want. For example..welcome. U can choose your favourite font and adjust the size of the font. In this case, I choose "Monotype Corsiva'.


And then, click ok button.


Time to copy and paste. What you have to do, print out that word and copy the word using tracing paper.



Transfer the word into the surface of the project using carbon/graphite paper.





After tracing on your design with graphite, start fill the word with paint. Usually for small and thin letter like this , I'm using liner brush. It is easy for me to fill in the word.






Here, to make the word stand out a bit more, I will outline all the letters by painting with other colors such as brown. Or you can outline the letters with Micron Black Permanent Pen.

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Decoupage Plate

Last week decoupage project. I made it using melamine plate. I used doily shape for the background of the wording. How to make it..simple as ABC

1) Basecoat exterior of the plate with white gesso. Let dry
2) Adhere doily on the center of the plate.
3) Moisten the sponge with water and squeeze out all the excess water
4) Dab or press sponge several time onto the pink paint.
5) Dab the sponge on the surface of doily. Make sure dab on the expose area of the doily.
Let dry
6) Peel out the doily
7) Finish.

Before wording added

Font: Curlz MT
Painted the font used liner brush no 10/0

Crackle Effect

First try in doing crackle effect. My first victim to the new transformation is a ordinary looking mini flower stand. What I did...first I applied sealer to the flower stand, let the sealer dry. And then apply the background color...I used white as I like white as a background color. But for the upper surface, I applied dark pink color to make contrast with the white.

I applied 2 techniques here to decorate the flower stand, 1) decoupage technique and 2) decorative painting.

The new face

3 basic step crackling process

1) Apply basecoat color (pink), let dry
2) Apply crackle medium, let dry
3) Apply contrasting topcoat color (in my case it's white, topcoat must be applied for cracking to occur)

The crackling will show when paint dries.

Close up

Tips

1) Apply a thin coat of medium for fine cracks, moderate coat of medium for medium cracks and thick coat of medium for large cracks.

2) Do not brush back over previously applied medium that has started to dry as doing so, may cause the crackle medium to lift.

3) When applying the topcoat, do it in one direction n evenly to get best crackle effect. Actually, we also can use sponge/dabbing techniques and we call it as Sponge Crackle. The technique I was using is Brush Crackle.

Crackle on the frame

My reference book, Decorative Painting Techniques by Di Singleton