Queen of the Bling Revealed

The canvases on the left were done by my friend Ralonda's 3 year old niece, just the hot pink on white canvas. I forgot to take a picture before getting started to turn these into something she could hang in her office to go with her hot pink, zebra and "bling" decor.

I taped off the edges and painted them black for a little visual stabilization and then began the first one, which was also the last one that I finished.









Ralonda's tag line (Queen of the Bling) just had to make it on there somewhere. I needed some inspiration to get it to coincide with the other one. A simple "google" search of images of "bling" brought up a picture of "bling H2O" and I just fell in love! The other inspirations for the canvases came from Hambly and their incredible line of products.




I used a few stencil elements here and there and a lot of free hand and filling in the black with a new favorite acrylic paint called "Black Sequins" that has just a hint of sparkle.

I really loved how they turned out and that Ralonda gets to have the artwork of her most precious 3 year old neice hanging in her office.

Bricks

our kitchen before

our kitchen after creating a stencil to make it look like a brick facade

Damask

I was exhaustedly looking for a damask stencil for my living room, and when none could be found, I found this trinket box at a Hobby Lobby store, took it to a local copy shop and had a photo copy of the box enlarged.  

I used 2 large blank stencils to trace the design and a hot tool to cut it out.

I used an interior glaze without tint and a stencil brush to apply it.

It is quite subtle and is barely noticeable from some angles.  I didn't continue the design because I really wanted a higher gloss, but accented with the 2 frames, it works for us.

Casino Night

Making these enormous dice was a bit more challenging than I had expected, but they sure turned out like I wanted.

The extra large playing cards on the windows were fun to make!

Inspired by the Vegas signs used in advertising last years 3-point and Dunking College Contest.

The Garage

I took this design for Cross Timbers Community Church kids team and replicated it onto a car hood for the room for 1st-3rd graders themed "The Garage"

I used Rustoleum™ high gloss paint for the gray background and acrylic paints for the lettering and shading.

I made a template using a roll of parchment paper which I had to do in three stages for the dimension and shadowing.

This was the logo I used for the other hood.  

I had to modify the colors a bit but stayed within the same scheme as the prints that were used for the team.