March 9, 2013

{st. pattys day craft}

Happy Saturday everyone! I have a craft to show you! It can be your Saturday activity! I am so blessed to have a husband that will cut wood for me in whatever design/shape that I want! I asked him for a shamrock and this is what he came up with! Mr. Creative right! His only deal with me is that he is just the wood cutter, he won’t do any crafting! I think its a pretty good deal! So here is what I cam up with!

This is what I started out with:

I then painted it green.

After painting it green I couldn’t decide between putting paper on it or stenciling it with a wall stencil. I decided on the wall stencil because I wanted something different. We purchased our stencil at Hobby Lobby for 16.99.

Here is the stencil I used.

I laid the stencil on the shamrock and then painted with cream paint. Pull the stencil off while the paint was still wet.

Here is what it looked like after stenciling.

I then sanded it, to distress it.

After sanding it I rubbed brown stain on it so the places I distressed would show up more. I then drilled holes and put some wire through it. To make the loops in the wire I just wrapped it around a high lighter. 

Here is the finished product!