Coastal Bohemian: November 2020

Thursday, November 26, 2020

Funtastic Friday #308

Your Hosts:

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Donna @ Two Chicks and A Mom

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Heidi @ Building Our Hive 

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Michele @ CoastalBohemian 

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Angela @Simply Beautiful by Angela  

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Melynda @Scratch Made Food for Hungry People

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OUR FEATURES FROM PARTY #307:

Most Viewed:

Comfort Spring's 25 Homemade Gifts

Donna's Pick:

Refined Room's DIY Gift Wrap Organizer

Melynda's Pick:

Fresh Vintage's Christmas Gift Bag Wall Art

Heidi's Pick:

Tee Diddly Dee's Fall Dried Fruit Potpourri

Michele's Pick:

Whisper of the Heart's An Acorn Tablescape

Angela's Pick:

Doodle Buddies's DIY Dollar Tree Candle Stand with Skewers

If your post and creativity was Featured, please copy and post a button to YOUR blog!

Party Rules

1. Post as many links as you like.

2. Family friendly posts only.

3. Old posts are welcome.

4. Comment on at least one post at the party.

5. Follow the hosts on as many platforms as you can.

We are your online friends. Let's interact, comment and enjoy one another while supporting each other.

Thanks for stopping by! With love and gratitude,

Michele

Find me partying here all week, at these link parties, with some great bloggers.

If you are in Myrtle Beach come on down and visit us at the Coastal Bohemian Studio or Follow us out on Facebook, Pinterest , Instagram, Linkedin, or Bloglovin .

Thursday, November 19, 2020

Funtastic Friday #307

Your Hosts:

PLEASE FOLLOW YOUR HOSTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA!

Donna @ Two Chicks and A Mom

          | Twitter | Facebook | Pinterest | Instagram | BL |

Heidi @ Building Our Hive 

| Facebook | Pinterest | Instagram |

Michele @ CoastalBohemian 

| Facebook | Pinterest | Instagram | Twitter |Hometalk |

| Linkedin |BL |

Angela @Simply Beautiful by Angela  

| Facebook | Pinterest | Instagram |

Melynda @Scratch Made Food for Hungry People

|Facebook |Pinterest | Instagram | Twitter

OUR FEATURES FROM PARTY #306:

Most Viewed:

Treat and Trick's Chocolate Rolled Oat Cookies

Donna's Pick:

Fresh Vintage by Lisa S VINTAGE TURKEY COLLECTION

Melynda's Pick:

Pillar Box Blue's Christmas Garland with Repurposed Sweater Balls

Heidi's Pick:

Hootshack's Burlap Tree

Michele's Pick:

Building Our Hive's Paint by Number Project

Angela's Pick:

Building Our Hive's Pie Take-home Container with Tag

If your post and creativity was Featured, please copy and post a button to YOUR blog!

Party Rules

1. Post as many links as you like.

2. Family friendly posts only.

3. Old posts are welcome.

4. Comment on at least one post at the party.

5. Follow the hosts on as many platforms as you can.

We are your online friends. Let's interact, comment and enjoy one another while supporting each other.

Thanks for stopping by!

With love and gratitude,

Michele

Sunday, November 15, 2020

Upcycled Kitchen Mitt Holiday Decor

Although this has been washed there is a stain on this mitten that won't wash off. Not very pretty . Time to throw it out.

But wait...

Maybe I can paint it for Christmas and winter décor.

It looks like a large mitten.

One coat of white chalky paint and then a coat or red.

I stenciled the ornaments ,

added the squiggled lines and sparkles.

I have deconstructed a dollar store mop for

it's lovely cotton strands.

That's what I used here to create a handle.

I like to fray the ends. I crisscrossed the cotton strands and glued with a hot glue gun. Then each end gets glue to the side of the mitten.

Next ,I tucked a few festive picks

from the Dollar Tree.

To complete the project, I added a little sign

on a stick and tucked it inside.

This could be done with new oven mitts from the dollar store . Actually , I can see a string of these in place of stockings along the mantle.

Thanks for always playing along.

With love and gratitude,

Michele

Paper Seahorse Ornaments

I started out one morning wanting to create a mixed media paper, something I could scan and use to print out for use in future artwork.

Watercolor paper has the thickness I love and watercolors, to me , always have that dreamy, easiness about them. They provide a quick ethereal background, so you can see that was step one.

Next , I added a few stamps using

Archival Brand Black Permanent Ink.

Working to soften the overall look , I wiped on a thin layer of Gesso and wiped it right back off. There it is "Wipe on , wipe off"

Using a copper stamp pad and stencil brush, a stencil adds another layer of interest.

Using my finger I add a few smears of copper paint, rubbing it in here and there. I don't want it thick. I want to be able to see the images underneath.

I used a stencil image of a seahorse that I picked up on Pinterest from #Freestencilgallery.com, but obviously you may create any image that works for your theme. I added these digitally and then printed this page of paper .

To create some body and thicken the ornament for stability I adhered the printed page to some cardboard from a cereal box. On the backside of the cardboard I adhered one more of the printed pages so the back of the ornament would have a finished mixed media backing. Plus , this added to the thickness.

Also, I'm sure I could have arranged and cut these on my Cricut and saved myself a ton of hand cutting time.

Next, I added eyes to my guys and lined the entire perimeter of the seahorse with a permanent black marker. Now they really pop.

👀

At this point the paper is fragile and vulnerable to the elements , so to speak . Using a paint brush, I added a top coat of #DiamondGlaze , which gave me a beautiful glossy shine and protects the paper. (Be sure not to let the glaze seep over the edge, it will allow the paper to stick to your drying surface and we don't want that.)