MFP Wild West Blog Hope day 2 Faux Barn Board tutorial and card

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JOIN US EACH DAY, May 24-27 FOR SOME RIDING HORSES FUN. WE'LL HAVE  TUTORIALS AND DT INSPIRATION. THERE WILL BE PRIZES FOR LEAVING COMMENTS ON THE DESIGN TEAM'S BLOGS AND PRIZES FOR TRYING OUR TUTORIALS.  YOU WILL HAVE 2 WEEKS TO ADD YOUR PROJECT to the May 27th POST FOR US TO SEE SO THERE IS NO EXCUSE NOT TO JOIN IN THE FUN. 

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 You could win one of the MFP Stamp Shop WESTERNED THEMED STAMP SETS Just comment on the following blogs ( don't forget this one ) each day for more chances to win! ( You do NOT need to comment on on all the blogs each day! The names are drawn randomly.) Try one of the tutorials shown during the Hop and add your photo to the Inlinkz at the bottom of the May 27 post. The winners will be announced on June 11, 2016 right here on the MFP Stamp Shop Blog. You can go back and comment if you missed a day. ( HINT: The more you comment the more chances you have to win. And comments on the MFP blog count twice. ) The deadline for commenting and posting pics of your projects is Friday June 10, 2016 at 10:00 PM EST.

Tutorials
May 25-- Faux Wood Technique by Marilynn
May 27-- Technique by Sandy

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Here's the Design Team

Gail

 Karen
Kren
Lois  
MariLynn

Pat
Pam
Sandy 

Shirley

Toni

Vickie

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Enjoy the Hop. Come back each day. We hope to inspire you to start your own Cowboy Fun projects.  Get to work on the tutorials, show us what you made by June 10th and 
check back on June 11, 2016 to see if you are a winner. 

Today I get to share a tutorial I created to show how I make faux Barn Wood.  What I like about this technique is you get random results. No two piece look alike. But that also means that sometimes you don't like how it turned out and other times you do, you just have to play around. I figure, it is just a cardboard box, glue and paint so if I mess up, not a big deal and I try again.

Faux Barn Wood Tutorial

By MariLynn DeGroot (Mississippi-McGyver)

Materials:

       Cardboard (I used a cereal box)

            Assortment of brown markers ( I used crayola markers)

White school glue ( I used Elmer’s)

            White acrylic paint ( I used Apple Barrel)

Step 1-

I cut out a piece of cardboard.

Step 2: 

On the back side of the cardboard, I took brown

markers and I randomly scribbled.  

Step 3:

I took white school glue and randomly applied the glue to the cardboard.

Step 4:

I used my fingers to smooth out the glue so that the whole surface had a layer of glue over  it. 

Step 5:

While the glue was still wet, I randomly dropped dots of acrylic white paint over the layers of glue and cardboard.

Step 6:

I used my fingers to spread the white paint. 

Step 7:

I let the glue and paint dry. This is the hardest part of this technique, waiting for it to dry. As the glue dries the paint cracks and you can see the different shades of brown underneath.  When completely dry, I cut the cardboard into strips so it looks like planks of wood.

I used faux barn board stripes to make this wild west frame. I wrapped twine around two of the strips.