A bland kitchen gets a cheerful and inexpensive dose of color with a border made from collected food advertising labels. Host Joan Kohn visits the kitchen of Christy Crafton, of
Country Sampler's Decorating Ideas, for a demonstration of how to paint a gingham background for the food labels to create a unique border that can be used around windows, on soffits, or backsplashes. Combined with flour sack curtains and a canvas painted rug, the look has a vintage diner feel.
Materials:
food labels
decoupage medium or wallpaper paste
latex or acrylic paint
chalk line marker
ruler
1" foam brush
Steps:
- Collect colorful food labels of similar height and size. They can be trimmed for uniformity. Paste to a piece of paper and make color copies, enlarging as necessary to achieve the desired size. Cut into individual pieces.
- Measure and mark the wall (figure A). Start with the food label and add 1/4" above and below for the first dimension. Snap a guide line with the chalk marker. Then mark up 1" above and below the border lines and snap guide lines. Add another line 1" above and below these lines, so you have two 1" lines above and below the border lines for the food labels.
- First, fill in the entire space for the food label border with chosen color , so that a quarter inch of color will show above and below the labels after they are applied.
- For the checks, use a 1" foam brush and work free hand. Drag the brush up to guide line, alternating rows and working from the corner of the last check painted (figure B).
- Apply decoupage medium to the back of the food label. (Use wallpaper paste instead , if you want to remove the border at a later date. The decoupage makes the border more or less permanent.) Affix the label in the middle of solid border (figure C).
- After the medium has dried, apply another coat over the labels to seal them and make them easier to clean.
Guests Christy Crafton
Senior Designer, Country Sampler Group,
Country Sampler Decorating Ideas magazine
Website:
www.sampler.com
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