Wall Collage

Here’s a little glimpse into our cozy Hamby Home! We got these awesome frames as a wedding gift! They are worn looking with burlap and SO PERFECT! I just LOVE them! I put three of my favorite engagement pictures in black and white and they looked great but the wall still needed something more!

That week I made a Hobby Lobby trip and purchased wooden letters (B & C). I painted them white and let them dry. Then painted them tan and let that try. Finally I added the Crackle Paint (Folk Art Crackle Medium from Hobby Lobby). After the crackle magic occurred, I took sand paper to them and roughed them up even more. Then they were ready to hang and at least fill up some of the empty space that was bothering me!

I still needed something to go in the bottom middle section. I looked at Hobby Lobby and other home goods stores and couldn’t find anything I liked that was the right size. We recently knocked down the railing on our back patio and had a pile of old weathered wood from it. I decided to take some of the scrap wood and cut it to the size I needed and make a rustic wooden sign to fill that area. I decided on a short quote that I knew would fit well on that size “canvas”. I’m pretty picky and knew if I painted the words by hand I would never be happy with it.

I designed the quote on the computer to fit the sign and printed it on computer paper. I learned this transfer method in my high school art class. I took the print out of the quote and while pressing hard and scribbling, I covered the back of the paper with my pencil. Once the back was covered I flipped it over and placed it on top of the piece of wood. I then traced over the letters on the paper with a lot of pressure to transfer the image onto the wooden canvas. It was faint but I had a graphite outline of the quote to use as a reference. Finally, I took a small paint brush and painted over the the graphite with white acrylic paint and it was done!

I don’t foresee a business in my future painting signs  but I think it works great with the collage and it’s a little sentimental since it’s wood from our first house (porch).