We love turning unloved possessions into beautiful and personal pieces – and this painted field make is ideal to maintain your most treasured trinkets in.
It’s a lot simpler to make a superbly ornate painted field than you suppose, and is a superb craft project to work on over a weekend.
Simple patterns scratched into paint transforms a plain picket field to make use of for keepsakes or as a sewing box. It’s good to maintain your favorite ins and outs in – or pop a gift inside for a particular Christmas gift for a good friend.
Before you begin the mission, make certain to cowl any surfaces first to keep away from injury.
Happy crafting!
What you want
-
Large picket field
-
Sample pots of emulsion paint
-
Thick paper or light-weight cardboard
-
1cm width piece lower from an old financial institution card
-
Wooden skewer
-
Paper-stemmed cotton buds
-
Kitchen tissue/paper
How to make a painted field
1. Carefully unscrew the clasp and hinges from the field.
2. Cover the field, each inside and outdoors with primer. Once dry, paint the field in a deep yellow emulsion.
3. Mix equal quantities of a terracotta tone emulsion with retarder gel – this can lengthen the drying time of the paint.
4. Apply a layer of the combined terracotta paint and gel retarder resolution to the lid and begin drawing your design, beginning with the border. Use the piece of financial institution card to attract wave patterns and the blunt finish of a picket skewer to attract the define of wheat husks and the pointed finish for the finer particulars. Simple dots will be made utilizing a cotton bud. Once the highest of the lid is dry, paint and embellish the edges.
5. Turn the field on its facet and paint and embellish the edges, one after the other, leaving all sides to dry earlier than shifting on to the following.
6. Reattach the clasp and hinges to the field as soon as dry.
TIP: Practise your paint patterns on scrap items of paper and card earlier than beginning on the field.
Do you like crafting? Share your creations with us by tagging @primamag in your footage on Instagram!
You Might Also Like
