Monahan

Botanicals

Home Decor Paint

a collection by caromal colours

The Botanicals are luscious and creamy paints inspired by the enchanting gardens of Europe. They are designed to bring a similar beauty into your lifestyle by enhancing your furniture, cabinets, and accessories with a gorgeous matt, chalky luster.

These paints are incredibly easy to use, brilliantly versatile in application, and wonderfully durable.  Even if you have no experience, you can achieve a stunning array of custom finishes in your home.

They flow beautifully, cover completely, sand like a dream for distressing and don't require wax to finish.

The collection is water based, non-toxic, and perfect over any clean, dry, home surface such as wood (raw, painted, varnished), metal, glass, plastic, tile, masonry etc. with

no stripping, sanding, or priming.

Brush, roll, "mush" (stipple), or wipe it on surfaces. Discover all the possibilities of this versatile product -- Home Decor Paint, silky by nature, is thin enought to achieve smooth finish as well as soft distressing effects when colors are layered.

*For more dramatic effects, consider using them with the Country Living Artisans Collection of Textured Basecoats or RECLAIM Beyond Paint.

Come on call me at 540-429-1942 or email me at debi@deborahgaylestudio.com and we can —have tons of fun and create something extraordinary...

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!

Frank's Rocking Chair Painted with Reclaim!

Frank's rocking chair from the front porch, all spruced up!

Before!

Frank cutting the old torn seat out of the chair.

Frank is making sure that the surface is Clean, Dry and Grease free.

Ready for painting, Frank settled for my choice of black, to match the other two rocking chairs on the front porch.  Frank is using Caromal Colours Reclaim in Licorice!  Please feel free to call me to order paints at 540-429-1942, or order directly from Caromal Colours and use my coupon code "DGS" to get a discount on your shipping, I will also receive credit for the sale!

Time to dry!  3-5 days of drying is recommended by the company.  Cure time is 30 days before cleaning.  

Because this rocker will sit on our front porch, Frank will apply a couple coats of a polyurethane varnish after the 3-5 day drying period.

Frank wove the seat with Shaker Tape in Black and Blue.  Great job Frank!  You are so good at weaving the seats!  Only problem is putting it back on the front porch where the cats are going to want to sit on it!  But I found a solution, that has worked for a week now!  I put an large tub in the seat!  ah ha!  It is working so far!

Go to Deborahgaylestudio.com and request a class to learn how to weave the Shaker Tape seat!!

Caromal Colours Painted Wooden Box

Using the Caromal Colours Paints (CCP), I took this brightly painted flowery box (that i picked up at a yard sale for $3) and transformed it into an aged piece to match my decor!  
The first thing I did, was remove the flower handles and replaced them with some plain round wooden handles.  Then I cleaned the entire box with Simple Green.  ( I save the flower handles for a future project).

Next, I pushed and twisted a combination of CCP colors, Colonial Blue and Bayberry Textured Basecoats, 1:1, onto the entire outside surface of the box.  I let that dry.

Once the texture base coat was dry I added a layer of Chipping Cream. The Chipping Cream actually goes on white but dries clear, so you don't see all of it in this photo.  I remembered at the last minute that I wanted to take a photo!  The Chipping Cream allows the next layer to be removed when sanded therefore revealing the under color.

When the Chipping Cream was dry, I added a layer of Peppercorn CCP Textured Basecoat on the entire box. 

When the Peppercorn was dry I began the sanding using a mouse sander.  That's me pretending to sand.  I do this kind of sanding outside!  and use a mask if you have one. It is important to sand more in areas that would have gotten the most use when you are attempting to make the piece look authentically old.  In this case I sanded mostly on the edges of the doors and around the handles.

I just love to see the under color come through!  Now we are ready for toning!

The toner is applied with a paint brush and removed with a cotton rag.  The toner pulls the two colors together creating a wonderful blend that is pleasing to the eye and gives the appearance of older paint. I added toner to the inside also.

Now it just needs a good coat of wax or varnish to withstand it's new on my desk!  If you like what you see and would like to learn more about the paints and the application process, please go to   www.deborahgaylestudio.com    and look under Creative Classes, Upcoming Classes or the Calendar for a future class!  Hope to see you soon!