I scored large at a recent community wide garage sale here in my hometown, so you are about to see many a thrifty find revamp here at SBLC. This tutorial covers how I used spray paint and tissue paper transfer to transform this old cracked crock (which cost $3) into this vintage number plant holder. Ridiculously easy, frugal to the max, happy crafter!
Supplies:
- Old Crock
- Spray paint (Krylon Outdoor Tuscan Sunset Gloss Finish)
- Painters tape
- Newspaper
- White Tissue Paper
- Inkjet or laserjet printer
- Vintage number graphic (I got mine for free at Graphics Fairy)
- Paint brush
- Mod Podge or other decoupage medium
- Ranger Distress Ink Pad in Tea Dye color
Instructions:
- Clean off old crock with damp cloth (and dish soap if necessary)
- Tape off area you don’t want sprayed *using newspaper for larger areas
- Spray desired area per instructions (may want to do a couple of coats)
- While that is drying, you can print your image. Using a thick piece of printer paper like card stock or photo paper as a size guide, cut your tisse about 1/2 inch longer and wider than 8.5×11.
- Fold excess paper over edges and tape to keep in place. You want the tissue paper to be snug on the “guide paper” since it needs to fit into your printer.
- Make sure you place the paper in the printer the right way so that your image prints on the tissue paper. I put mine upside down for the image to be on the correct side.
- Cut the image out and decoupage it onto the surface. I paint a thin coat of glossy mod podge, place the image, then paint a coat on top of the image, smoothing out the wrinkles as best I can.
- Once this dried, I ran my “Tea Dye” Ranger Distress ink pad over the image and crock to unify the layers and give more of an aged look.
I am loving it! Total project took about 45 minutes. What do you think? What are you spray painting these days?
Nicely done!!
That’s so cute! I love it!
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That turned out fantastic. Particularly for the amount of time invested.
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Love this! I’ve been on the lookout for an old crock but haven’t found the thrifty one yet! You might have just given me an idea of how to make my own!!
Jen
Love this – you made a great save.
I am surprised that because it’s tissue paper that the color of the jar isnt showing through on the letters/words. Do the letters/numbers look really solid in person?
Most excellent project and totally adaptable to lots of surfaces! Great instructions and photos. You rock!
You are the first person I have EVER seen run tissue paper through the printer!!! Some of my friends think I am nuts for taping it down and going through that trouble, but when they see the finished projects they have a little ah-ha moment! Thanks for sharing!
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