April 2019 Thrifts and Stencil

Stencil of the Month

Happy Birthday DH

April's Thrifted Finds:

Mid April finds - Mennonite Church (such a well organized and welcoming group).

Farmer's Almanac Thermometer on tin lid, brass chamber candle holder with removable candle holder, brass snuffer, a Wade creamer and various silverplate and vintage cutlery in a pitcher.

Sequence and supplies used for my latest stencilled sign at end of this post.

Flashed Ruby Red Goblets on my welsh dresser.

Candle Holders with pears and tulips and Royal Doulton Hunka Munka with her baby mice and a German Tee-Maass mug.

Well used Slow/Stop sign, a trailer licence plate, vintage white enamelled commode and a red well worn Gasoline can, plus a few small dogs.

Glimpses of the mid 40's and Later

Silver plate teapot, creamer, sugar and boxed glass ashtrays.

An eclectic group of great finds this month.

Stencil: Laundry on Grain Sack Stripe

Supplies:

I used Donna of Funky Junk's stencil for the grain sack stripe background (link to all her stencil projects as well as others who have shared with her).

Paint and other supplies used:

• ASCP White for base coat
• FUSION Little Lamb (pale grey) for grain sack 
  stripe
• CeCe Caldwell Beckley Coal for letters
• ASCP clear wax
• Individual letters from Westcott LetterCraft 
  Helvetica 3" plastic Premium Letters

• ruler, paint brush and brush for waxing, paper 
  towel, newspaper, blue masking tape, clean  
  rag for polishing

• sponge brushes from Martha Stewarts line
• bristle stencilling brush

Painted the ironing board shaped board ASCP White.

Later added the Fusion Little Lamb grey Funky Junk's grain sack stripe (note the stencil is moved forward after the first section of the stripe is painted and taped into position to complete the stripe to the end of the board).

Sanded the white and grey to add a 'worn' look to the board. 

Next, on a long piece of paper, I traced the letters L A U N D R Y to make sure the spaced letters would fit on the board. 

Measured carefully and placed blue masking tape on board as a baseline for the letters.

Placed each letter (covering the next letter with tape) and taped the stencil to the board. Used CeCe Caldwell Beckley Coal and used my 'go to' stencil brush to ponce the paint onto the board. 

Repeated for each letter, taking care that each letter was the same space apart.

Remember to clean your brushes and stencils and any bits of paint that get on your hands/arms or clothing with warm water and your choice of gentle cleaner - gentle rubbing with your fingers for cleaning the stencils (they can be fragile).

After L A U N D R Y was stencilled the sign was again sanded lightly and then waxed with ASCP clear wax.

Two earlier posts on making laundry signs posted earlier can be seen here and here.

along with the new LAUNDRY sign.

Thank you for visiting today.

Joy

Featured by Roseann of This Autoimmune Life May 2/19

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