Dollar Store Challenge Link Party Rusty Metal Art #Starfish

Welcome to Coastal Bohemian and to the Dollar Store Challenge. It's a Link Party where my crafty blogger friends and I challenge ourselves to be creative with things that we purchase from the #Dollarstore #DollarTree 

Pop on over and visit the other blogs to see what they made with a small investment.

If you love to shop for items you can use for crafts at the dollar store, then this Dollar Store Link Party is for you! Along with a group of bloggers, we're hosting a party for your dollar store craft creations. It's open for two weeks and we can't wait to see your creativity!

Meet the co-hosts of our Dollar Store Craft Link Party!

Across the Blvd | Purple Hues and Me

Coastal Bohemian | Sew Crafty Crochet

Intelligent Domestications | Cookies, Coffee, and Crafts

Using a $1.00 starfish piece I created this  piece of rusty metal art decor. Pop on over for the tutorial.

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Michele

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Rusty Metal Art #Starfish #DollarTree

Patina Patina Patina. I love Rust. I love the rusty, old, vintage look of statues and crusty metal and if you like it too you'll be able to recreate a piece of rusty metal art. Just keep reading.

 I started with this starfish from the #dollartree and some junk and old jewelry and old metal odds and ends from around the studio. #destash 

Using a hot glue gun I get everything attached . This is really a very free style, of puzzling things      together, meaning there is no laying out of the goodies. It's glue and go and eventually everything pretty much works it's way into the art. Trust yourself to create this way. It's very freeing.

 Once everyone is stuck, I give the entire piece a coat of Gesso. This will act as a primer for my paints.

 Give the entire piece a coat of brown paint . After the piece is coated, create a little batch of brown paint mixed with some sawdust . 

Need sawdust you say? Home Depot and Lowes should have some laying around in their cutting area. Bring a container!

Use this textured paint to add a rusty faux finish to the metal in the artwork.

Next coat, is a drippy, bit of orange paint. Just add a few drops of water to create a free flowing version of your orange paint. We are wanting to create the look of how water would run down a piece and start to oxidize the metal. Now, you can get that paint on there using a a paint brush and then hit it with a spray of water to get it dripping down the starfish. 

Repeat this process with the black paint. 
Repeat the process with the verdigre aka know as aqua colored paint. 

Here's the video. 
And then it's complete. I think the #DollarTree has different shapes that you can choose from including a pineapple, so you can tweak this project to your own tastes. 


Thanks for reading along and stop by and visit more #dollarstore craft ideas by visiting 

Dollar Store Craft Link Party

With love and gratitude,

Michele

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Funtastic Friday #229

Funtastic Friday Link Party #228

Looking forward to all your summer recipes, crafts and DIY's in this week's link party..

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FUNTASTIC FRIDAY #228 LINK PARTY

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#Upcycle Challenge Blog Hop May 2019

This month several bloggers teamed up to bring you this inspirational challenge. 

Upcycle using Cardboard, Paper, or Wood

I created this Faux Cement Planter from an old wooden box I had in storage. See the full tutorial here.

Hop on over and see how everyone else was inspired. .

Across the Blvd

Purple Hues and Me

Cookies, Coffee, and Crafts

My Pinterventures

Coastal Bohemian

Sum of Their Stories

Stone Cottage Adventures

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With love and gratitude,

Michele

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Upcycled Faux Cement Planter

 Here's my wooden planter upcycle from this 

to this 

This month I joined several bloggers for an Upcycle Themed blog hop challenge. Be sure and pop on over to the other bloggers and see what they made.

Across the Blvd

Purple Hues and Me

Cookies, Coffee, and Crafts

My Pinterventures

Coastal Bohemian

Sum of Their Stories

Stone Cottage Adventures

So excited about the challenge this month. You see I had the perfect piece for this project. I had a wooden box that had been sitting around in storage. So I actually cleaned up and upcycled this month. Perfect way to upcycle.

 I found this faux metal fencing at the #dollartree hoping I could use it along the outside of the box. I snipped the spikes from the bottom.

 In the end it looked better tucked inside the back of the box. 

 Just checking to see how this will look with some herbs tucked inside.

BTW, if you use an old box for an upcycle you'll need to drill a few holes for drainage. 

Next I gave the entire box a coat of Chalk Country Paint . When it dried, I added more paint with some raw unsweetened coconut mixed inside to create texture. I added the now, texture paint, to several spots. 

 I normally use saw dust to add texture but hey, a girl gotta do what a girl gotta do. It worked. Although I should have been more diligent with my mixing because some of the coconut shows through . 

 As an after thought I decided to dry brush some green onto the texture to create the look of moss.  

Here it is completed. 

Thanks for reading along. Hope you found some inspiration along the way. Make sure to leave a comment below and like the video.

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Here are the rest of the Upcycle Projects. 

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