A new family...

So I'm working on my first family/home decor sign. This sign is for my friend Christine who just got married in June. Her and her new husband both have children from a previous marriage. So she wanted a sign for their home with all their names together as one family....including the dogs! So we made the last name the focus and also included their wedding date as the time the family was established. We kept the colors neutral so it would match the home decor since they are trying to buy a new house. The colors are chocolate brown and toffee brown. Of course the base is an ivory white. This sign should be relatively easy considering there is no crackle paint (ha ha) but there are quite a bit of swirls. Of course that makes the design look so elegant though. Oh how I love to make my job harder!! It's worth it though!

Begins Here...Ends There...

So I finally finished Justin & Jenni's wedding sign, and not without a few TRILLION bumps along the way. For whatever reason I was not meant to do this sign easily. I started this sign in the midts of Natalie and Aric's wedding preperations. A week of staying up until 3 am every night to get things completed. I did the sign when I could and spent a lot of those late nights at the sign, doing wedding things in the day and staying up late to work on the sign. The day after the wedding it was almost done and I had come home and started preparing to finish it up when all of a sudden I realized, my 2 year old is awfully quiet. I ran over to find her pouring BLACK paint all over my almost complete sign. My heart completely sank and I knew I had no one else to blame but myself. I shouldn't have left the sign out and I shouldn't have left the paint out, and I shouldn't have taken my eyes off that curious little girl for ONE second!! Needless to say, it was ruined. I had to start ALL OVER AGAIN. Of course that couldn't be an easy task either. When I went to get the wood, there were no more pieces. When I did the crackle paint, it came out horribly. When I went to my parent's house so that I could work on the sign and my mom could watch my kids, I forgot the paint. It was a nightmare. And yes, I even had a nightmare about this sign! After I finally completed it, I went to bed (at 3am) and had a dream that someone had spilled something on my sign and decided to clean it up with a wet rag and the paint on the sign was completely smeared! What is wrong with me!?! But all in all, the sign is done it has been picked up from my house and is ready to be displayed at a wedding this weekend. I'm so happy. I'm hoping Jenni is happy with it too and loves how it came out. There were so many different colors to incorporate it was a little difficult to distribute where the colors should go so that it was even and went with the theme. But I think I got it done.

Starting work...

Let the layers begin! So, while the design is at the printers, I have started work on Jenni & Justin's wedding sign and being that we are using crackle paint, this has many steps. First the base coat, then the crackle paint, then the top coat. Of course all have to dry for 4 hours each. Yikes! However, it is worth the wait. I love the vintage look it gives each piece while still looking elegant. Great choice! I decided to go with a toffee color for the base because I needed an earthy light color, nothing that would conflict with the chocolate brown and olive green and nothing that would match too close so we couldn't read the font. I think it look delicious and makes me want an Almond Rocha, yum! Of course this is not what it will look like at all, just the very beginning to the many layers of this amazing sign. Stay tuned...

The first stages..

So I'm starting a new wedding sign. This one is for a friend of a friend. She is getting married July 24th. She's having a rustic/vintage/outdoors wedding. So I created a very vine-y flowery sign with fonts to match. As anyone would be, she was a big fan of the quote: Happily Ever After Begins Here. So we've got that on her sign just in a little different font. I just finished the design, so the next step will be to get all the supplies and start the paint. She really liked the crackle paint I did on Natalie's sign, so that is a couple steps in itself. Stay tuned to see the final creation!