My ‘house’, layer by layer
I pulled out all the stops for this house! I felt this house was an ‘all or nothing’ project. Here are some of the techniques and products I used
1-Paint the house brown and use Distress Inks to age and warm the paint color.
2-the Roof-I painted the roof black, then used a crackle glaze. I accented the crackles with Pearl Distress Inks. I added a chimney made from a dice. I toyed with the idea of adding smoke I pulled from felt, but it looked stupid.
3-Accent pieces-I cut a heart to fit the house, inking the edges to accent the heart. For the chandelier, I used a pre-printed chandelier picture, cut out all the details with an X-acto knife, then painted the silhouette with metalic purple paint.
4-The windows. These are all recent pictures of my family encased under glass. I added a rub-on to accent each window. The window frames and shutters are made from Fimo dough, then inked and painted navy to age the clay.
5- The door is a logo from the top of an Altoids tin. (does the shape look familiar?) In person, you can still read the embossed ‘Altoids’ through the paint. The paint is a textured rust paint of my own design, red oxide colored paint with some black to darken it, mixed with Distressing powder to give it the texture of rust. The doorknob is an old bingo chip…N35?
6-The words were printed on the house in a OLD SCHOOL style, baby…Tole painting. I learned this technique when I was still in elementary school. I printed out the words on my computer, then carefully traced and colored the letter with a lead pencil on the back of the paper. After taping the paper into place, I re-traced the front of the letters. The lead was then tranfered onto the house. I inked in the words to finish the title. Halfway through, I realized I would have to transfer the words over the chandelier, which was tricky!
7-I glued the antique-style key to the side of the house, transfered ‘Kellso 2007′ on the side in the same font, and I was done!