Spoon and Fork Vintage Artwork

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Ready for some great vintage artwork for your dining room? Mine is finally done! .... well, I don't have it up on my wall yet but I have another art project that will go with it. Can't wait for the final reveal!

Otherwise you could buy one from Linens-n-Things

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Materials:
2 boards the same size
Newspaper or Phone book pages
Mod Podge
Sandpaper
White and Brown paint ~ or whatever color you prefer
2 Images ~ Found mine at The Graphics Fairy

Start off with your boards

I had 2 MDF boards leftover from another project. They're a
little heavy so you might want to go with plywood of some kind.

Grab your phone book {you know you don't use it anyway} or an old newspaper and start crumpling several pages.

This will give your board some texture

Use your Mod Podge {Elmers glue could be used too if you don't want to use your precious Mod Podge ;) }

How much you crumple them and lay them is up to you. If you 
smooth them out you'll have minimal texture. The more pages
and crinkles there are obviously will give you more texture.

Once your glue and paper have dried, add a layer of paint

I ran out of my white paint and ended up using some other
leftover paint.

Once your white paint has dried, grab your sandpaper and get to sanding. The glue will have harden the paper and the peaks of the wrinkles will rub off. Do some extra sanding along the sides too.

I had some big patches fall off during sanding. You can see one
here towards the top left corner. I continued on leaving these
spots as there were but as I got towards the end I thought they
were a little too distracting. I would repaint these spots with white
and resand before continuing on if this happens to you.

Create a "glaze" with your brown paint. Just dilute the paint with quite a bit of water. Paint over your board and wipe away excess. Repeat this step until you feel you have the right color.

On the edges I didn't dilute the paint as much and didn't wipe
it away as quickly so they were a little darker

I found this image on The Graphics Fairy. I separated the spoon and fork and then stretched the images out to the length of my boards

Vintage Kitchen Clip Art

Print them out on a laser print

Line up where the image should be

Grab your Mod Podge again and paint a layer where the image when go. Rub the image with your finger. I don't think using a brayer is necessary for this project. You'll end up flattening your texture.

I wouldn't recommend using your Glossy Mod Podge for this one

Typically with an image transfer I would try to leave the paper on for 24 hours until I'm sure the Mod Podge is completely dry but I didn't want the image to be perfect... this is suppose to be vintage. So I only left the paper on my board for 5 minutes or so and then pulled off the paper.

I used a wet paint brush to go back and pull up some of the
paper left behind. Don't be too aggressive when trying to peel
up the paper, remember you have a thin layer of paper
underneath your image and don't want to pull that up too.

Here's an image of the fork after I pulled up the first layer of paper

Again be careful when peeling up the remaining paper

Here are a few closeups

You'll notice, especially with the fork, that there are several of the patches I mentioned earlier. This is when I went back and fixed them. I also decided to add in some wording. I printed the words out and traced them on the boards.

The white spots are my touch-ups. Once dry I went back over the
spots with the brown "glaze".

I then went back with some watered down brown and painted the letters.

I started painting "Menu" hopefully that will make the outline
easier to see

Here is a closeup of Cafe

And finally they're ready!

Stay tuned to see what other project goes with them!

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