Gift for Jesse from The Art of Jesse

Finally I am able to show you what I made for Jesse http://theartofjesse.blogspot.com/ I made him a plaque. I will show you some pictures of the process.





I drew the design and then I started working with the wood burning pen.





Added some leaves to the vines.

I then added some words. It's the name of Jesse's blog.

I added color with some watercolor pencils. I wanted the plaque to pop. Then I stained the whole plaque except for the back of course. It's a light color because I didn't want the colors to be muted by a dark wood stain. Wood stain stinks so bad. I didn't have a face mask =( so I sniffed some fumes. It really sucked. I even worked on this outside but the fumes were really strong. After a couple of hours of drying time I brought the plaque inside and then I put it near a window so the smell could go out the window. The next day I sealed it with Krylon Kamar Varnish. I added multiple coats until the plaque was to my liking. Varnish has to be used in a well ventilated area because it's smelly as hell. I always apply varnish outside because it stinks so much. Oh one more thing that I forgot to mention was that I nailed on a sawtooth hanger on the back so Jesse can hang it on the wall. I want him to be able to hang it where ever he likes.

I made this card for Jesse and I wrote him a little note. I wanted to let him know why I chose to make a heart for him. If you know his art you know that he makes a lot of broken hearts. I wanted to give him a heart that wasn't broken so it could heal his heart if it needs healing.

Welcome

I just thought I would show you a new sign of mine.

This is a welcome sign that can be put outside of your home or where ever you would like. I painted the wood with a sponge to get a nice effect. The word is wood burned and so are the two hearts and the flowers. I painted the flowers and the hearts.

I like how the ribbon that I chose contrasts a lot yet it seems like it fits well with the sign.

The sign is small so it doesn't take much space. It is approximately 3 inches by 5 inches.

Lately I've been thinking about doing custom signs. For example if someone wants their name on a sign or someone else's name it can be done. Or some saying, things like that you know. You could also chose the colors or any little designs that you would like. I wonder if that would be a good idea. Should I do it?

Have and excellent day everyone ^_^

Jeweled Butterfly

Here's another thing I've been working on. I love how this turned out because it's so sparkly. It's beautiful. I painted the wood buttefly dark purple first, front and back. Then I painted the wood dowel lilac and finally the top a bright pink. I hand glued each jewel, man it's time consuming, with a hot glue gun. The bigger clear acrylic jewels are 6mm in size and the small colored jewels are 4.5mm in size. I really enjoyed working on this so much. Do you see where I added the eyes? I think it gives it a bit of character don't you.

There are about 122 4.5mm jewels on this butterfly give and take a ny I might have missed or counted over. There are about 151 6.5mm jewels. Give or take any miscounting I might have made.

There are two holes in the back so you can hang this on the wall.


I showed you a different view of the butterfly so you can see it in a different way and of course so you can see the dowel I talking about.

Have and excellent day everyone ^_^

Love

This is one of the signs that I have been working on. I finished this some days ago. I did this with the notion that everyone can use a little love in their lives. You don't necessarily have to be in love to need love in your life. Do you know what I mean? The ribbon is adjustable; it can be untied to be made smaller or bigger. I wood burned the word love and also the heart and arrow. If the jewels ever fall off you still have the heart there. I love this because it's just a reminder to keep love in your life and look for love all around.

Butterfly Dream Box

As I promised here is the preview of the box. The pictures are a bit blurry and so is the video of the box. Forgive me for that. The camera is a bit old. I hope that in the near future I am able to get a new one.

I wanted to make it feminine and I think I accomplished that. I wood burned three butterflies on the sides and also burned three words on the sides of the lid which say Wish, Believe and Dream. I just need to add the finishing touch inside the little compartment at the top. I think I might put a special message inside but I'm trying to decide on that.

Art Magnets-3 in a set

I made these marble magnets. The images are things I drew myself. I am intending on selling them and they will come in a tin box. I'll think I'll sell these on etsy. I'm going to have 10 sets. I tried to get good pictures but it wasn't all that easy. Have a nice day.

Decorative Crafts

Here's some things that I'm considering putting up for sale in etsy. If I do decide to do it, I'll let you know.

Board Book Preview

Hi everyone here is just a preview of the book. Only 2 pictures. I don't want you to see all of it until I finish the video for it. It's a how to video just like suziblutube's video. I'm going to show you what I did to create my book.

This is page one.

This is page 4.

So what do you think so far? Sorry for the quality of the pictures. I didn't take them in a very good spot. I promise the video will be good ok.

Board Book

I'm going to start working more on my board book today. I was inspired by suziblu's board book video. Here's her video and I hope I can add mine as a video response soon.

Wooden Decoupage Picture Frame