Chair

Hello and Welcome!

Today I have a different kind of project to show y'all.

I'm in a Buy Nothing Group and I saw this chair offered,

so I said I'd love it for my granddaughter and was 

lucky enough to get it.

I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it.

I started out by sanding it down to take off the

finish so the paint would grab on.

I spray painted it with white, in the areas I knew 

needed a white background.

I cut out polka dots with vinyl, to use as masks and 

stuck them on the seat of the chair.

Then painted it with red paint.

I punched out circles from vinyl to make masks

and put them on the seat of the chair to protect the white.

Once this has a few coats of paint I can remove

the vinyl dots to reveal the white polka dots.

The bow was a few steps.

First I cut a bow from vinyl with my 

Silhouette Cameo and removed the bow to use 

the rest as a stencil.  I punched the little polka dots

with a small punch.

Once the bow was done, I removed the vinyl 

stencil and put the vinyl bow over the area painted red.

This protected the red bow and white dots from the black paint.

Then I covered the seat with paper and painters tape

to protect it from black paint splashes and painted

the rest of the chair in black.

I had also made a mask of vinyl for Marie's name

on the back of the chair.

Once the black painting was done, 

I removed the mask.

There is a bit of touch up to be done

A bit of touch up needed on the bow too.

Once all the painting was done,

I realized that it needed a finishing coat or the paint

would end up chipped and scratched.

I used Minwax Polycrylic and gave the 

chair several coats.

And, here is the finished chair.

It's not prefect by any means, but I'm happy

with how it turned out.

I think this is something she and my

son and daughter in law will cherish for

a long time to come.

Thanks for stopping by,  I hope you like

my little chair and are somehow inspired.

I hope to see you again soon,

until then,

have fun in the new year!