Rusty Truck With Tree Brings Back VINTAGE LOOK.

Lisa Cain
by Lisa Cain
4 Materials
$25
3 Days
Medium
Decided to try a couple of things with this project. Stencil, paint, use different textures and light it up. I'm ecstatic with the outcome, as vintage look is so popular right now.
I started out with a pre-made board from Michael's store. It is a 10 x 10 size.
Next I used my Silhouette Cameo machine and made a vinyl stencil for the board, and applied it to the top of the board. I used my "spouncer" to paint the lettering with regular white acrylic paint. You "spounce" very lightly, because you can always go over it again if needed, but if you put to much paint on your spouncer and dab over letters, it can tend to bleed.
I wanted textured looks for the tree, so I used this "powdered" mix and added it to my green acrylic paint to make it rough like. To make the tree textured. This is one of my two textured painting experiments on this.
When stirred together, this is the consistency I got from it. Loving the consistency, it will make a great tree.
Again, I used my "spouncer" and dabbed it all around. It definitely got the look I was going for.
Next step was for the truck. I used my package of Rust Effects (comes in a pkg of 3 with yellow, rust and brown) that I got at Michael's store. These paints are wonderful to play with and give not only texture, but depth to your project.
First I used the rust and brown colors. Put one color on, then another on top, and just played around with it. I wanted more though...........
So I added some yellow, and then a few spots of brown. Still not feeling it, so played around some more. This is the beauty of these paints, you can use brushes, your fingers, and keep piling on top, one coat after another.
Finally I got the color I was going for. A more RUSTED yellow look. I adore how it turned out. It's almost three dimensional in a way.
Here is a close picture, so you can see the dimension this paint can achieve. Perfect for the vintage look I was going for.
This is the end result after pulling off the stencil, and adding a battery operated pack of 10 lights to the back of the picture. Basically drilled holes, put the lights in the holes, hot glued around the opening to keep lights attached and taped the battery pack to the back, so it can be easily changed when new batteries are needed. Sorry, I didn't get a picture of the back.
Here it is, lighted up in all it's glory. Beautiful ~! This is sitting on a dresser underneath a lamp. It seems to work better as a "shelf or table top" sitter because of the bulkiness in the back.
However, it can be hung up too, which I've shown here. Just need a longer nail to use for the bulkiness of the back. Hope you enjoyed my project. I love it and the vintage look it has!
Suggested materials:
  • Wood type board   (Michael's store)
  • Rust Effect Paints   (Michael's store)
  • Acrylic Paints   (Walmart)
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  • Nicola Nicola on Nov 25, 2017

    Is this a stencil I can purchase to cut on my Sil? It is not listed in supplies?

  • Dorene Lewis Dorene Lewis on Nov 26, 2017

    Where can I get a stencil like that??

  • Barbara Barbara on Jan 05, 2018

    Would love to know if you would consider making one that I could buy from you. I have a friend who would be over the moon for this. I don’t have an ounce of craftones in my bones. Please let me know if you would be willing to take on this project. I would pay you $100.00 dollars. Barbara McGurn

    mcgurnb@icloud.com

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