Krylon Paint and old table

Here is a relook at the table I made using my Krylon Dual Paint and Primer and something new so make sure you read on if you've already seen this post.

I have been so busy creating lately.  I have loved all my projects, but this one I am most proud of as of right now.  I was approached by Infarrantly Creative and Krylon to see if I would be interested in doing a project for them using a new product, Paint and Primer in one can.  Well, duh, of course.  Hahaha  I will try ALMOST anything.  I was allowed to pick two colors of this new Paint and Primer spray paint.  I chose red and blue of course. 

I started with this table.  When we bought our house 10 years ago, my inlaws bought us this table and chair set for our downstairs patio.  It was gorgeous when we first got it and I love wood so this was a perfect fit for us.  As you can see, 10 years of outdoor living has taken it's toll on this poor set, but I didn't want to get rid of it either.  I knew, someday I could do something with it. 

and wound up with this:

Isn't it just gorgeous:
This is how I did it:
I first disassembled the table by unscrewing all the slats from the metal legs.  The wood was a bit rotted in places, so when I painted it the red paint really soaked into the wood.

 I had to use 2 coats to get a proper coverage of the paint, but it is well worth it.

Then I painted the bottom rung and the metal legs.  I only needed 1 coat for each of these items.  The metal took very well and the wooden rung covered nicely also. 

After I let it dry for 25 minutes I sprayed a white spray paint also made by Krylon (had some left over from a previous project).  I let that also dry for about 20 minutes.

 Then I cut a star out of some vinyl and when I was sure the paint was really good and dry I placed the cut ontop of the white and used a strip to avoid spraying onto the red.  I placed the slats as far apart as they would be when the table is reassembled.

 I then used the blue spray paint to paint over the vinyl cut star.

 I let that dry for about 20 minutes also.

 I reassembled the table

 and this is it.  I am so in love with my new table.  I can't wait to do my chairs now also.  I used 1 can of each color and still have about half of a can of the blue left over.  The red is almost used up, but I think it's a very affortable project and the color really look great.  All in all this project probably took me about 2 hours.  Cool huh?

Now, we all know you can never have too many light sets right?  I know I can't, but they can get pretty costly and I love to make things so I made my own 4th of July light set.

First I cut stars out of some cleaned soda cans and some plastic containers.

I forgot to take pictures of the soda can stars, but I used the same method as I did for the plastic
You can cut them very easily with tin snips or even kitchen scissors (that's what I used)
I also spray painted the plate here and that's another project in itself so stay tuned...

Then I ran them both through my cuddlebug and embossed them with the "stars" cuddlebug folder.

Then I spray painted both sides of the stars.  Litterally in 20 minutes I was able to flip them over and paint the other side.  This paint dries so fast and it only took one coat each side.  Both the soda cans and the plastic took very well to the paint.

These are the soda can stars

Soda can stars

Plastic Stars

Plastic Stars

After the stars were completely dried, I sanded a bit of the paint off the soda cans to give it a bit of an aged look.  The plastic stars I kept as they were; no sanding.

These turned out awesome

I punched a hole in each star with my Crop-a-Dile II right in the center and put them on a string of lights.  Don't they look fantastic?  I even tried some clear ones and they are ok, but I do love the painted ones

Soda can stars

Plastic Star

 Plastic clear star

 Soda can star

Combination of soda can stars and plastic stars.  

Just think of the possibilities for Christmas (trees), Halloween (pumpkins), Valentines Day (Hearts), and the list goes on and on.  Wow, I can't wait for the next holiday to come along.

Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think and tell me which ones you like the best:  

Soda Can, Plastic or clear plastic.

Simply Sunday "Summer Fun"

Good afternoon friends,

***If you are looking for the Lasting Memories post, please scroll down***

Welcome to another Simply Sunday challenge over at Getting Cricky and it's Summer Fun.  I am so excited about today's challenge because I did something new!!!  I am using the Splashtastic Summer stamp set and really had a ball with this one.  Now remember, for EVERY stamp set you purchase, Kristal is donating $1 to a charity.  Again, that's for EVERY stamp set, not just right now, or last week, but forever as long as she sells them.  So when you are thinking about purchasing a set, think about how you will be helping a charity also.  Isn't that just a great feeling?

I wanted to make an action wobble card.  About 6 or 8 months ago I received a sample package of those action wobbles and put them aside and totally forgot about them.  Ugh, I tend to do that way too much...  I didn't have a seal on any of my carts so I found a clipart of this seal and traced it in SCAL.  I used one peachy keen eye from one of my sets and added a smiling face which I free hand drew.  Straight and curve lines I can draw, but that's about the extent of it.  The background paper was from my stash and I made my own faux baker's twine like I did here, only this time I did three colors and I love it. I had these beach balls in my stash also and they were just perfect for this card.  Now back to the wobbles...I cut my seal and went to add the wobble...and it was too BIG, or my seal was too small.  I was so bummed until a light bulb went off and I made my own action wobble.
Let me show you how I did it but be aware this is a photo heavy tutorial:

and there you have your own action wobble.  Now, mind you, I am not taking away from the Action Wobbles, because they are awesome.  My problem was that I need the wobble to be smaller because my seal was too small for the "real" action wobble.  I just needed to make my own for smaller cuts is all.  Here are a few shots showing my wobble in action...I wish I had the time or patience to make another video.  I just don't know how some of you guys do it, plus I do not have an editing program and believe me, I need a lot of editing help.  LOL

So what do you think?  Cute eh?  I think so.  Now go make something with "Summer Fun" and head on over to Getting Cricky and join our challenge.  If you have the Splashtastic Summer stamp set use it and HAVE A BALL!!!

Lasting Memories #45 "Create an Album with a Summer Theme"

Good morning,

Welcome to another Lasting Memories challenge.  This is a doozie.  We were to create an album with a Summer Theme.  What's more summery than flowers right?  Well, this is what I did:

I cut two pieces of chipboard 7 x 7 inches.  Then I glued my pattern paper (from Michaels) to the front of the cover and piece of plain cardstock to the inside of my cover.

I should have done this "after" I created the spine...oops, next time.

Then I glued the pattern paper to the backside of the cover and layed a piece of ribbon to the inside middle and covered it with another piece of plain cardstock to create the closure for the album.

 

Depending on how many pages you want for your book accordion fold a strip of paper per sheet.  In my case I have 9 sheets cut at 6 x 6 inches.  Then I glued the pages into the valleys of the accordion fold.  Next glue your spine inside each cover and it's finished.

VERY easy, peasy.  I did not embellish the outside of my album yet because I am waiting for that special reason to give this away.

I hope I've inspired you to create an album and make it yours.  Be sure to head on over to Lasting Memories and link up your album.  Remember, it can be any type of an album, as long as you "MADE" it.

Rocket Tea Light

Good Morning

well, it's almost the 4th of July and you know how much I love the RED, WHITE and BLUE so of course I had to make some type of decoration(s).  This is the simplest thing I have ever made...

The rocket is a toilet paper roll covered with scrap paper and the cone on top came from a file from Scrapping Table in the American Pride Theme set.  Have a told you lately how much I love all her files?  I also covered a cd with the same paper.  The Star is cut out of plastic and spray painted red and added a rosette to the front of the star also from the American Pride set. Then I covered the silver on a tea light with red metallic paper, glued the star to it and hot glued everything down.  Simple and quick.

Here is a rocket mobile sorta.  I used the same concept as the rocket for the tealight, but I added the "sparkler sticks" also from Scrapping Table's American Pride Theme and hot glued that to the inside of the toilet paper roll.  Ran a piece of strings through it all and added a bell to the inside of each "rocket" and now it jingles.  This was also so fast and easy peasy.

I hope you like what I've done and don't forget to come back tomorrow for Simply Sundays at Getting Cricky for some Summer Fun.

Paper Secrets 8

Good afternoon all -

Can you believe I am already done with this week's challenge over at Paper Secrets and it just went up this morning.  As you know I am also in a Layout challenge over at Paper Secrets and am loving that I am actually doing more and more layouts. Each week we are given an assignment for a layout. I really don't care if I win the contest, it's just helping me to do more layouts that I should have done a long time ago (or some new ones in this case). If you participate and follow the guidelines you advance to the next week. We started with 27 and I am not sure how many moved onto this week because it hasn't been posted yet. I will keep updating you as I go along. Who knows, I might not be able to participate one week and then I am out, but until then, I am scrapping my butt off, (they used a different word, but my blog is family friendly...hehehe


So here is the sketch:

and here is what I did:

and what's in red is what I used out of the items I was allowed:

hand or machine stitiching
mist   - background circle and main paper
3+flowers - I used the leaves (hope that was okay)
bling
3+ photo corners
border punch
3+ brads/eyelets - leaves on border punch
altered or raw chipboard
stamped image(s) - bird and Getting Cricky sentiment from the Positive Thoughts 
ribbon/lace - raffia and twine

I am having such a great time doing this challenge.  I just hope I don't run out of photos.  HAHAHA

I used my cricut to cut out the border since I only have one border punch. 

If you want to see how I did the FALL click here.  I had made a home decor project last fall and recycled it for this layout.  I love reusing my stuff and this worked just perfect for this layout.  

I am also in the process of "cleaning my craft room" and am finding more stuff I didn't even know I had.  I found a journal stamp block and used it to create the circle journal.  Glad I know I have that now, maybe I will journal more using my own handwriting. 

Then I also used Kristal's Positive Thoughts sentiment, because LIFE IS GRAND.  I love how I can use these sentiments for more than just cards.  If you haven't purchased your stamp sets yet, you better hurry and remember, for every stamp set you purchase Kristal is donating $1 to various charities.  Gotta love that!!!  I am so glad that I am keeping up with the challenge over at PaperSecrets.  See you next week, hopefully.