Monday, October 28, 2013

Metal Art Flowers & Owls

More Metal Art


Four Fabulous Flower Boards
It was a lot of fun putting together these fun flower boards!
The flowers were created using various molds, coasters, drill bits, hinges, cranks and more.  Many pieces were attached using screws and others using wire.


Meet Speedy
for sale, now, at Cameo's
downtown Fredericksburg, VA


This is Cranky Heart 
Also, for sale at Cameo's


White Washed
was adopted by Frank & Debi 
and is hanging in the stairwell 
to Frank's man cave! 


Star Flowers
was my first Metal Flower Art piece 
and is waiting, at Cameo's, to be adopted.

MORE OWLS


Had to use up all the left overs, so see whoo is available for adoption at Cameo's.


Garden Owl
Shovel beak, pitch fork and shovel feet and hoe brows!


Kitchen Owl
Cake pan, juicer, tart pans, sifter parts and butter knives. 


Baby Owl
Not sure what the 2 body metal pieces started out as.
Fondue fork brows, fork and spoon feet, molds and bottle caps. 
Added the little chalk board at the last minute.
Just love this baby!


Mink Oil Owl
Ash trays, can lids and bottom and bottle caps make the eyes.
Cake pan and mink oil can lid (with a horse on it!)
Brass fork feet and a drift wood beak.


Cam's Owl
This one is for Cameron at Cameo's!  
A women with a big heart and 
always rolling from one place to another to help people in need.


Also for sale at Cameo's 
are Happy Owl Blocks!
One side displays a fun decorative owl and the other side
had a die cut chalkboard vinyl to write a special note. 

Thanks for looking at my creations!  
Want to make something?  
Check out my website, www.deborahgaylestudio.com 
 Under Creative Classes, click request on the right.  
Design Services, has many ideas.  
If you see something you would like to make send me an email, debi@deborahgaylestudio.com or call 540-429-1942 
and we can set up a class!




Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Art Day at Painted Trails 10/14/13



Art Day at Painted Trails

Monday October 14,2013

Scrap Metal Art Project


Using wood and metal found objects we created Metal wall art Owls




















Samples In the photo on the left, the owl on the left was designed by Frank and the one on the right was designed by Debi, me. The owl in the photo on the right was designed by me and adopted by my sister, Grace Kelly.

When gathering supplies, I went through my own stash of metal treasures and then went out and looked for more metal pieces at thrift stores, second hand shops, yard sales and flea markets. 

We started with a piece of old barn wood, supplied by Marie.  Thank you, Marie!

Next we chose a body from the bucket of large, 8"-12" circular metal pieces. The body choices includes cake pans, pot lids, trays, plates, grates, can lids, burner covers and other items that I'm not sure what they are. It was difficult to find metal oval trays and lids.
The eyes are built with several pieces, starting with a 4"-6" round pieces.  In this bucket there are metal lids from canned foods, smaller tin can lids, pans, lids, trays, molds, tart pans and much more.

To add dimension to the eyes we layered smaller pieces on top of the 4"-6" round pieces. Smaller eye pieces in this bucket include smaller ash trays, coasters, tart pans, condiment cups, jello molds and wheels. Some pieces had other shapes such as hearts and shells.

Bottle caps and jewelry were usually the smallest pieces added for the eyes. 
Beaks were added with using old trowels with wooden handles, utensils such as a butter knives, copper measuring spoon and rusty can openers.  Other options are vintage can opener, aluminum juicer, old shovel, rusty hindges and various other kitchen and garden tools.  
Feet grasping a tree branch finish off the work of art. Available were regular size and small forks, spoons and butter knives. Also, some small gardening tools. On my owl in the beginning of this blog has claw ball feet.  I found them at a yard sale in Stafford.  Eye brows were also added using can openers, measuring spoons, feathers and back plates for kitchen door knobs. 

The Drill Team
Frank drilled the holes in the metal and Rick drilled the screws to hold everything in place.  While the two of them put the owls together, the rest of us worked on owl cards. 


Using QuicKutz Owl die, we cut out several colors of Owl parts and mixed them up for some cute cards.  Word stamps are from Stampin Up.  


Then we ate!
But I don't have any photos of the food and table settings.  We ate chili, corn bread, pumpkin spice bread and fresh cut vegetables.  

Marie hand formed these adorable owl rice krispy treats and then covered them with chocolate.  Eyes are mini oreo cookies and mini M&Ms.

Wooden block owls made with designer paper, paint and vintage buttons adorned the dining table.

Here's the whole group!

Kristi's Owl has a big heart!

Carol's Owl is ready for Christmas!

Tracey's Owl has many hearts and jeweled eyes!

Laura's Owl is a copper beauty!

Katie's Owl is full of love!


Marie's Owl is full of "Our Daily Bread"!

The whole gang!

Close up of three

Close up of other three

Copper ash trays, measuring spoons, tomato paste can top and bottom and two earrings, make up the top half of this owl.

Metal and plastic Coffee filters, bottle caps and turkey feathers found here at Painted Trails are great for the eyes.  (there was more metal than plastic so we allowed them)

Rusty Christmas ash trays and bottle caps for the eyes. Two sets of eye brows.

Small jello molds and a pair of earrings make up this pair of eyes. The brows are back plates for cabinet door knobs. 

Coaster and wheel eyes. Can openers brows and vintage trowel make up this adorable face. 

Coasters, heart shaped molds and a pair of heart shaped earrings are the eyes for this loving owl. A trowel beak and back plate brows. 

Small forks with three prongs are great for feet.

A heart shaped candle holder with the candle holder part removed adds a special touch to this owl.

A pretty angel tin can lid was attached to the belly of this owl to bring color throughout the piece. 


I sure hope you enjoyed our project!  Thanks to all the great attendees, Carol, Laura, Kristi and Katie for letting us play with them.  Also, many thanks to Susan, Jim, Tracy, Marie, Rick and Frank for all their help and support to make this such a successful day!!
Could not have done it without you!
Love, Debi




Monday, September 9, 2013


Silhouette Boxes



Fun fall boxes! 
I gave some old chipwood box lids a new life using Caromal Colours and stencils.


The lid was painted with Peppercorn black and then painted with Paparika, 
using a dry brush affect around the edges. I traced a cat photo onto a sheet 
of acetate and cut it out with a craft knife.  Then stenciled it on the lid using 
Caromal Colours stencil creme. Toner was used to finish it off.   


This is my favorite and I used Caromal Colours Pumpkin paint for this one.  
The leaf was made with a foam stamp.


The Harvest box lettering stencil was created on my Cameo machine.
I drew and cut the stencil for the wheat.


Paprika was painted on this box lid and a pumpkin stencil was created on my Cameo machine.


The 1776 Stencil was created on the Cameo machine and
 I found the little star in my drawer of stencils. 
Love the Huckleberry Blue paint.


I created the little acorn stencil.


These last two boxes were created using a crackle medium and acrylic paints.
The horse is a vinyl cut out adhered to the top using mod podge.  
The cat was created with my handcut stencil.

May have a class coming up soon!
If you're interested in the class leave me a comment!
Thanks for looking!