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| I'm hoping to get more crafts out this paper. |
When I started my blog I promised to report my crafting mistakes. Ohhhh, but let’s just call them mishaps. Shall we? Are there really any mistakes in crafting? I don’t think so.
I woke up this morning feeling pretty crafty. I had four thrift store picture frames and some craft paper I bought a few weeks ago on my mind. I thought I would put a little crackle medium and paint on the frames…cut the craft paper to fit…and, BAM, adorable accents for my amazingly bare kitchen walls. Easy, right?! Yeah, I thought so, too.
When I posted a few months ago about the wonder of crackle medium I gave the instructions off the bottle which explain one should paint a basecoat, apply the crackle medium and then a final topcoat for successful crackling. However, I must confess, I thought the basecoat was only needed to achieve the color contrast that makes the crackle effect really pop. My frames already being a dark brown, I decided to skip the basecoat. I went straight from crackle medium to a cream colored topcoat. Yeeeaaahhh, that didn’t work. Clearly, I should have been thinking less about pretty and more about basic chemistry. The basecoat is needed for the reaction to occur that causes the paint to crack. Whoopsy!
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| Bleck! |
I then for reasons I don’t understand decided to paint a layer of crackle medium over the cream color that didn’t react followed by a layer of red paint. The cream would show through the red and be super cute, right?! Uh, no. It didn’t even look a little cute. So, I applied another layer of crackle medium and another layer of cream.
I wish I could end this post by saying my mistake…I mean mishap…turned into something wonderful. But I can’t. It’s okay but not good enough for me to show a picture of the finished product. I did manage to salvage the other frames which look quite perfect. Yay!
I end by saying slow down. Read the directions. Think about it.
And don't get too big for your crafty britches.
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