Welcome to Teach Me Tuesday! I spend a lot of time each week reading all of the great DIY tips out there in Blogland. Because there are so many fabulous projects that I can’t wait to try, I figured that it would be fun to feature some of my very favorites here each Tuesday.
If you would like to be featured in an upcoming edition of Teach Me Tuesday, please email me at LivingWithLindsay@gmail.com and we’ll chat!
This week’s edition of Teach Me Tuesday features Gina at the Shabby Chic Cottage. I have enjoyed reading Gina’s blog for a while and am quite excited to bring her to you.
Gina is export in transforming found and thrift store items into beautiful treasures. What’s more fun is that she bucks the traditional white and black spray paint transformations in favor of ballet slipper pink. As a girl who loves pink but can’t use it very often because I live in a house full of boys, I love Gina’s style!
Recently, Gina explained how to make cheap, easy, and chic stenciled canvases. This is such a great way to create artwork to display on your walls, propped on a table, or set in a bookcase. I have an open two-story living room, so this may be exactly what I need to create (on a larger scale) to cover some of my empty wall space.
Gina shows us how:
I bought some canvases a couple of months back, and was waiting for the right inspiration. Today it finally hit me.I love the look of old tin ceiling tiles, but I don’t love the prices of those things these days. There is something about the rustic appeal of them that just sings to me. So, I used a hand made stencil and some paint to get the same effect without shopping or buying anything new. (Use a wet cloth to “wash” the background color into the canvas.)
I did my stencil while waiting for the base coat to dry. If you are careful you can pull it off the first canvas and use it again a few times before needing a new one. I used mine 4 times with no problem.
This could easily be done on canvases that were already painted, just give it a clean base coat and paint over it again. (I see them at yard sales all the time for dirt cheap.)
Now, if I could only decide where to hang them!
Wonderful, Gina! I love how you did this with a ragging technique to give it a vintage finish. Thank you so much for sharing your great design with us.
Please visit the Shabby Chic Cottage to check out Gina’s other projects!
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Thanks Gina…I've been wanting to make my own stencil, but didn't know how. ANd thanks to Lindsay for having you guest post!
~Amanda
Neat project! Thanks to Gina and Lindsay for sharing it with the rest of us.
Very cool, what a fun project! I'll be linking.
Thanks so much, Lindsay, for having me over today!
Great project, I have some wall space to fill, I'll give this a try!
Thank you Lindsay for featuring this cool tutorial from the Shabby Chic Cottage. I really love this!
tina
Those are beautiful!
What a great project from Gina! Totally cute.
And Lindsay, I just love your new/old chair you recovered. That looks fab, girl!
ooohh, that is really neat. what a great project!
Oh those are so cute!!