Hi! It’s Jen — from Tatertots & Jello
I’m here to share a fun paint project with you.
I have a slight obsession with Quatrefoil – I love that shape!
I have been wanting to make a quatrefoil project for a while now.
So in honor of The CSI Project’s first challenge — Paint, I came up with a couple of painted quatrefoil projects.
I have an old stool that was in dire need of a facelift, and a huge tray that I bought at Ikea because I loved the size, but not necessarily the print.
So I went to work on my computer and came up with a template that would work for a stencil. I printed it off –I used cardstock, but it would be easier if you printed it off onto shelf liner with a sticky back. Then got out a new X-acto blade and cut out the lattice.
I put the cardstock on the tray, starting at the upper left hand corner and worked my way around the tray — holding the stencil on as closely to the tray as possible. If you use shelf liner, you can smooth it down so there are no loose edges and it will work much easier.
After each shape, I smoothed the paint with my brush, so the finish was smooth. The tray edges are the trickiest parts. When I was done, I went around the edges with a small paint brush — smoothing any rough edges.
I used a DISChanger to hang it on my kitchen wall — now I can take it off and use it as a tray whenever I need it!
Then I tackled the stool. There was some water damage, so I used my little mouse sander and smoothed the wood and paint.
Then I primed the stool — primer is wonderful stuff. Once the primer was dry, I spray painted the stool with Antique White paint gloss paint. I put three coats on it. Then I let it rest overnight.
Once it was dry, I was ready to stencil. I tried a different technique on the stool than I had with the tray. I used the stencil to trace around the edges with a pencil. Then I took my paint and painted the shapes with my paintbrush. This technique worked well also. I ended up putting about 4 coats of the blue paint on the stool. Once that was dry, I added 4 coats of waterproof polyurethane gloss.
Here’s the quatrefoil stencil if you want to print one off for yourself : HERE
note — when printing, uncheck the “Size To Fit” box on your screen before you print it out.
And that’s my first quatrefoil project(s) — I am sure others will be coming up soon!
Ok, get YOUR paint projects ready to link up on May 24th.
We want to show off YOUR ideas!
And come back tomorrow — Beckie is going to wow you with a wonderful paint tutorial!