Modern Retro Painted Craft Hat Coxes
Functional craft hat boxes painted in a beautiful modern-retro style.
Ingredients
- 2 Paper Mache Storage Hat Boxes 8” and 10”
- Paintbrush 2” angled
- Paintbrush small angled fine tip
- Americana Acrylics in Mistletoe, Foliage Green, Melon, Bahama Blue, White Wash
- Americana Decor Stencil Mod Leaf 6”x6”
- Americana Decor Metallics in silver
- Painter’s tape
- Pencil
Instructions
- For the larger craft hat box: At the center point of the box height, place a piece of painter’s tape along the circumference.
- Paint the upper area in white wash and then remove the tape.
- Paint the lower half of the larger box in melon.
- Paint the lid in bahama blue.
- For the smaller craft hat box: At the center point of the box height, place a piece of painter’s tape along the circumference.
- Paint the upper area in white wash and then remove the tape.
- Paint the lower half of the box in bahama blue.
- Paint the smaller lid in melon.
- Place the stencil on the painted box aligning the center of the stencil with the painted line.
- Using a pencil, trace the stencil directly onto the box.
- Flip the stencil over and trace the same pattern above the line. Continue along the entire circumference of the box.
- Following the same instructions as the larger box, apply the mod leaf stencil to the smaller sized box.
- Paint the mod leaf pattern in foilage green and mistletoe.
- Add metallic silver accents to the painted leaves and along the edges of the boxes and lids.
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