Monday, September 27, 2010

Kitchen Watercolors and free download



Last week I got together with a group of my friends and we had a "craft day" which was a blast! I decided that I had to craft something just for me and not to be sold in my shop! I feel like I craft a lot, but my home doesn't usually reap the benefits (though sometimes I do decorate my own home with things and then just take them down if and when it sales. Is that weird?).

I decided to make these silhouetted images of food and kitchen items to hang in a row in my kitchen. The way I made them was, I cut watercolor paper into 5x7 pieces. Then, I cut out all of the images I wanted out of regular white cardstock, in the middle of a 5x7 rectangle. I took each image and lightly spray glued it to the water color paper, and used the cardstock as a kind of mask. The watercolor did blled into the cardstock in a few places, but mostly i was just careful not to not paint up to the VERY edge.

After it had dried for a few minutes, I peeled off the cardstock mask and voila! nice silhouetted images!

I am offering the whisk as a free download!



Click here to download a zipped file with a .svg file and .gsd cutting file of the whisk image.

6 comments:

  1. Your kitchen art if lovely! and looks beautiful in its placement. Thank you for sharing your method, and the file, too!

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  2. They are beautiful... I really like the colors, too.

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  3. Thank you so much for this post. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in Creative Busy Hands Cricut Freebies Search List, under the Food/Kitchen Related, Recipe Card(s) Theme post on Sep. 30, 2010. Thanks again.

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  4. hi! i'm here from freckled nest.
    I looked at some of your older posts and i adore the monarch mobile and i took the home ec class too! haven't made it to the refashion though, yours looks great:O)
    really impressed with your work, it's gorgeous.

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  5. Such a cute idea! They are just beautiful :)

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