I was asked to make a couple of trucks for a friend of my mother's. They were going to be for her two grand boys and they were going to be the exact same. I changed them up a little and made the accent woods different. One was walnut and the other was a red looking wood from my grandfathers scrap pile I inherited. They turned out really nice and but I wanted them to be a little more different. I asked the lady I was making these for if I could try to paint their names on them. Anyone that knows me knows that I could not write these names free hand. I do have an air brush and I knew if I did it free hand I would have to sand a lot of mistakes out. So I opted to do it like etching glass. My mother is a major scrap book person and a while back she purchased a die cut stencil set. I cut my letters from that and put them backwards on a sheet of contact paper. Then I put the contact paper on the truck beds and cut out the letters leaving behind the sheet of contact paper. The reason I did this rather than just tracing the letters on the contact paper was because the paper stencil leaves a lip that is easy to trace with a blade. I then painted the names on to the beds of the trucks. They turned out really nice. It looks a lot better than my free hand. Here are the pictures of the steps.
Just a note: Push down the contact paper after cutting out the letters. The lip that helps you cut out the letters will let the paint bleed if not pushed down.
They really turned out cute. Glad my scrapbooking tools came in handy!
ReplyDeleteIt looks great with the names of the trucks!!
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