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

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!

Debi, Sue & Friends Saddle Up!

Debi, Sue & Friends

 Saddle Up!

Welcome to our Horse Themed Debi, Sue & Friends!

Festivities started with the adoption of one of our mailbox horses from the Adoption Corral.

Here is one of our beauties before being primed

Here they are primed and ready for adoption!

Here they are from the back side!

Horses have been chosen and the painting begins!

Color, color, color!!

Our Friends never have issues when choosing colors and designs for their projects.

This mare's head was a beautiful shade of time worn pink by the time her artist was finished designing her.

Aren't they creative? 

More photos to add later!

To keep with our Horse theme, our good friend Denny Kious brought two of her wonderful horses to Painted Trails for us to ride!!!

Both are from the Appaloosa Breed and both are wonderful to ride.  

Meet Maria (Ma-rye-a)

Here is Carma!

  Four of our friends also took rides or at least sat on the horses for a photo op!!

It took some effort but I saddled up on Maria!

Sue on Maria!

Denny on Carma!

Marie on Carma

Debi & Sue are friends!

This is the end of the trail for now!

We were very blessed for this event by the generous parents and friends that donated metal mail boxes for our project, by all the special people that helped with the event, including Denny and her horses and our friend's sister, Jenna, who took photos of the event and by the Lord  who provided the most beautiful fabulous weather we could have ever asked for!!!!

We are looking forward to having Jenna's photos to add to this blog.  Then you will see photos of the lunch and decor following our theme.

Please feel free to comment on what you have seen and contact me if you are interested in attending a class to make your own Horse Mailbox!!

Rehearsal Dinner Decor

Kristen and Francis'

Rehearsal Dinner Decor

May 4, 2012

The rehearsal dinner was held at Ristorante Renato's in Fredericksburg, VA on William Street!

The Rehearsal Dinner theme was about Khaki & Zoey, Francis & Kristen's rescue dogs (and my Grandpups!)

Photos of Khaki and Zoey were printed, backed with colored card stock and displayed on small wooden easel throughout the tables.  

Table runners were made from a loose woven fabric and hand stamped with festive words and prints of paws and bones.

Each place setting, greeted attendees with a theme printed card providing the Dinnner Menu.

The party favors were hand sewn bags drawstring bags made from a houndstooth fabric design, embellished with a round stamped quilted fabric tag and filled with a variety of bone shaped cookies.

Beautiful flower arrangements made by Carolyn Helfrich adorned each table.  The arrangements were set in dog food bowls to go along with the theme! (I was so busy I did not get a good photo of the arrangements, but they were fabulous)

Hope you enjoyed these ideas!  Please feel free to contact me by leaving a comment if you would like further information on any of the projects.  Thanks for visiting my blog!

Debi