Don't Stress, Distress...

...with Ranger's Tim Holtz® Distress™ product line!

Ready to be festively distressed once again? The Dream Team has been playing with Ranger's Distress Paints™, and is ready to inspire you to be distressed as well...paint distressed that is! Dreamweaver Stencils are the perfect choice to mix with all things festively distressed, as nothing shows off color and texture better than great designs. By following our hop and leaving love along the way, you have the opportunity to win a great prize package including five Ranger Distress Paints and five Dreamweaver Stencils! Here's the lineup for today, including our November Guest Designer:

Dream It Up!
Ranger

Linda Neff (GD)

Cyndi Bundy

Lyn Bernatovich

Terrece Siddoway

Wendy Jordan

Heidi Erickson

Cherylynn Moser

Laura Drahozal

Louise Healy

Stacey Rumsby

Pam Hornschu

Lea Kimmel

This is also our first posting day featuring our new monthly challenge, "Holiday Celebrations", and for the entire month we will be demonstrating ways to use Beacon Adhesives' entire line of products with Dreamweaver to create special projects in home decor and gifts of love. Here's mine:

I started off with a cheap wooden frame I purchased at Wal-Mart for $0.97.  I liked it because it really lends itself to being stenciled upon!  Look at all that flat surface just screaming for paint, stain, ink, and stenciling!  I started off by staining the wood with Tim Holtz® Distress Stain™ in Vintage Photo.  I love the warmth of this color!













Here's how the front looks completely stained!

This is the back side completely stained with the exception of inside the hole where the dowel goes to make it stand.  I'm showing you these pictures so you can see how it looks with just the stain.  I think it looks great!

For my next step I waited until the stain was dry and I put a light coat of Tim Holtz® Distress Paint™ in Antique Linen over the entire front of the frame.  This gave it a bit of a washed look but still allowed the stain to show through.   Once the paint was thoroughly dry, using LX 7001 Damask and Tim Holtz® Distress Ink™ in Frayed Burlap, I stenciled my pattern over the stain and paint base.  I let that sit for a bit to dry and then coated it with Beacon Fast Finish to create a seal.  You can tell in the picture below that it's coated as the light reflects more on the top showing the was of the paint off more so than at the bottom where the light isn't hitting it directly.

I know that home decor items with numbers is very popular right now so using Tim Holtz® Idea-ology® Numerals, I added my favorite number, 24, to the front.  The numbers are silver in their natural state so I coated them with Tim Holtz® Distress Paint™ in Forest Moss leaving a little of the silver showing through for a nice distressed look!  I added the brads and attached the numbers with some glue dots (that I boosted the holding power of with Beacon 527 glue).  I added some scrap green paper where the photo would go; since I plan to give this as a gift I didn't want to add a photo.

Just for fun, here's a close-up of the numbers!  Don't they look old!?  I love it!

I must admit, I'm super pleased with how this turned out!  I love it when a project I have pictured in my head comes out just the way I envision it!  I have to say, I love Tim Holtz® products of any kind!  I think I use at least one of his products on almost every project I create.  I love the vintage feel his products invoke.

I do hope I've inspired you to make a few gifts for your family and friends, especially when you can save so much money in the process.  Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you'll stop by again real soon!

Hugs,
Lea