Kristin and I have been busy busy with our website the last couple of weeks!!
But... in between the busyness there arebabies coming very soon!!
Kristin's baby boy, Isaac's room, isin a vintage airplane theme ~ She wantedto use one of her husband, James' photographs,but wanted it to look old ~
This is a quick step by step butyou can get more detailed instructions on herfamily blog ~
First we got the picture laser printed atStaples in a 20x30 inch size ~Then we went to Home Depot and had them cuta piece of wood in to 2 pieces 10 x30 inches ~
Place the 2 pieces of wood side by side( we attached it together at the end butyou can do that step ahead of time )~Then brush on Acrylic Gel Medium and spread pretty generously ~Place your paper with the image face downand smooth out ~We had a couple of wrinkles and actually itended up adding to the vintage look ~
Let it sit overnight ~
Then dampen the paper witha wet cloth ~ When the paper looks wet rub with your fingers and the paper kind of rolls off ~Kristin cracked me up because her fingersdidn't have finger prints or something becauseshe was having issues with this step ~
You can keep dampening the paper when it dries out
until it isall rubbed off ~ Some of the paper was left and it ended up grabbing the stain and looked good ~
Next Kristin stained over the entire piece ~
Then she sanded the edges
and rubbed the edges with Pigment ink with a sponge ~
Lastly we waxed it with Annie Sloan clear waxbut you can also use Mod Podge to seal it ~
After it dried the wood was attached together on the back with metal flat brackets ~
The whole project cost less than $30 ~
It turned out great and looks awesomein Isaac's room !!!
