Been there, done that!

I have seen Big Ben, but I haven’t seen the Queen in person (I did see Prince William, Princess Kate, and Prince Harry through binoculars at the Olympics whilst their cousin Princess Zara rode), nor have I ridden in a London cabbie (yet!).

This little wall cabinet was bought for the princely sum of £5 in a charity shop.  It was rather plain; painted in a plain sage colour with no distressing or other interesting additions. I painted it with DecoArts chalk paint called relic (grey) and then a second coat of everlasting (white).  I used a tip from Andy Skinner and put some hair wax on the places I wanted to sand back and expose the grey.  This is the best tip ever!  Or very close! lol

I decopaged a vintage looking paper napkin onto the back of each cubby hole, using the most interesting parts of the image.  Can you spot any differences in the images from the left and right sides? 😉

Lastly, I traced the London with bowler hats from one of Lisa’s London stencils and filled it in with relic chalk paint.  Afterwards, whilst walking Scooter, I realised that I should have cut the stencil so that I could get it to lie flat on the cabinet and stencilled the paint – that would have given a crisper edge and the hats would look more like hats!  Lisa’s stencil is not at fault here! lol

We’d love to see your altered/mixed media projects over at Altered Eclectics.

I’d like to enter the following challenges:

http://artisticinspirationschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/

http://craftingfromtheheartchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/

http://www.craftyourpassionchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/

http://notjustcardschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/

http://www.2creativechicks.com/

http://countryviewchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/

http://rheddscreativespirit.blogspot.co.uk/

http://thecraftingcafe.blogspot.co.uk/

http://thesistersofcraft.blogspot.co.uk/