No- it's not a joke or a strange version of Clue...it's my latest project! About 8 months ago, I ran across several duck decoys @ the local thrift. A few were painted by local artists, and a few evidently by someone's grandkids or something. They were just about $1/each, and I loved the form, but the paint on a few.......well, notsomuch. This particular decoy I had already primed over in anticipation of something awesome- but what on Earth would it be?? I am not an especially good detail painter.
Inspiration came in 2 ways. One: a decorating magazine that has some cool, but pricey items, and the other: a tutorial from another blog. There is an awesome tutorial on the fun blog Living With Lindsay for a book wreath, and she explains it better than I ever could, and I will show you my book wreath accomplishments below. The decorating magazine had a large dog form that had been covered in decoupaged paper made from playing card images. I also imagined forms covered with sheet music, but I had leftover book pages from my wreath project, so in the spirit of waste not/want not, torn book pages it would have to be!
My duck started out uglier (sorry kiddos) that this, but so you will not be forced to avert your eyes from my blog, I will only show you the primed image:
I simply used torn book pages and Modge Podge, and covered him/her up!
When I was covering the decoy, I used my poor raggedy fingernails to push the wet paper into the carved places, to keep the detail. When it was dry, I sprayed it with 2 coats of clear acrylic.
I also had rescued a sad little blue candlestick that was marked .25 at the thrift store as well:
As usual, a can of black spray paint cured the blue candlestick of it's shameful appearance. Then I simply added strips of ribbon to the top to give it a little 'nest' for objects to sit on. The ribbon I wanted to use was not wired, but I quick dip in some stiffener made it use-able for this application.
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