Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Holiday Hop

Welcome to the Artistic Outpost Christmas in July Blog Hop. The team is sharing a variety of winter holiday inspired projects on the hop this month.

I spied this old paintbrush at the Flea Market about 2 months ago and I have been holding onto it for a special project. 


I decided my old paintbrush would be the perfect surface to create a rustic Christmas decoration to be hung on the wall during the holiday.

I painted the handle with white acrylic paint to make the images pop.  I stamped the images onto tissue paper using Ranger Archival ink. I tore out the images.  I then applied watered down glue to the back of the tissue paper. I placed it onto the painted background and brushed glue water over the surface.  I started with Father Christmas first and then added the house and trees on the right and the trees on the left.  I added the snowflakes up the brush handle.

I added a piece of lace trim across the bottom with twine and several glittery silver bells.  I then tied on a bow to the handle with a stamped Joyeux Noel using black ink on white cardstock. I cut the tag and attached with twine to the bow.

The sets used include: Midwinter, Snowy Woods, and Sleigh Ride.

Hop over to check out the rest of the cool holiday projects by the design team:

Thanks for stopping by! 

Suzz







15 comments:

  1. Pinned!! Love this Suzz. What a great piece to decorate with at Christmas. Gorgeous!! -- Mary Elizabeth

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  2. What a fun piece of art! Love how you decorated this ol' brush!

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  3. What a clever upcycled project! Love the combination of images with Santa right in the center! Don't you just love tissue paper?

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  4. Lovely piece of decor, Suzz. The white and black reminds me of a country Christmas. Love those stamps you used.
    Kate

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  5. Fantastic home decor piece Suzz, very clever alternative idea for a decoration. Love how you have used the images. The white really does make the images pop. Tracy x x

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  6. Gorgeous!The lace is such a pretty accent. There's so much old stuff in my Dad's garage I'm sure I'll find some old brushes. Can't wait to try. Thanks for sharing.

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  7. oh - so cool Sue. what a fabulous Christmas decoration that will be. It's beautfully put together.

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  8. This is great Suzanne...gorgeous altered brush!

    kind regards, Alie :-)

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  9. Your paintbrush Christmas decoration is brilliant! Love Santa here!

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  10. Fabulous alteration of the Antique Paintbrush with some of my favorite AO images! Love the placement of Santa!

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  11. Totally drop-dead sensational! This is such a cool and fun home dec piece. You did an incredible job on the design. LOVE it!!!

    Hugs,
    Linda

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  12. Absolutely fantastic - perfect combination of images, and what a brilliant piece of altered art - gorgeous!
    Alison x

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  13. Perfection! So creative, so you! Just love this Suzz!

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