By Katja Kromann

Painted on thick: a new addition to our living room gallery wall - DIY decor

Painted on thick: a new addition to our living room gallery wall - a paint craft
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Today's project is subtle but its a great effect and more noticeable in real life than on pictures. I added a white on white stenciled detail to a white framing mat. Can you see it? It's there... right there... see?

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For this craft I used an inexpensive black frame, a white 8x10 mat board, some heavy body white paint, a stencil, and a spatula.

Painted on thick Gallery wall addition 1

First I cut a mat board to my picture. I used one of the photos I took on our trip in January to Palm Springs. To cut the mat board I looked up my own tutorial on how to cut a mat because I can never remember how it is you start with the measuring tape... But once I re-read it, I got it right away ha ha.

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Next, I put my stencil over the cut mat and troweled on some of the heavy bodied white paint.

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Then, still using the spatula, I scraped off the excess leaving me with paint in the thickness of the stencil on my mat.

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Then I carefully lifted off my stencil.

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And repeated on the other side of the opening.

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With my finger, I smoothed down the paint on the 45 degree angled cut around the opening.

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Here you can see the slightly raised effect of the paint and the shadow and highlight effect it gives the stenciled paint the mat. I love that.

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Next, I put my picture behind the opening. I thought my picture looked way too blue - on the left - compared to the warmer white of my mat and paint, so I re-printed my picture in a warmer hue - on the right

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It's probably easier to see here. On the right I used a 40% chocolate black and white on top of my regular black and white using the same action as in this project. Then it looked just right.

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One of the advantages of using a mat for your picture is that you don't even have to put it in the frame straight. For my picture it looked best from the front when I angled the print slightly like this.

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I added my newly framed photo to my gallery wall above my couch. This was at 8 o'clock this morning, so I made sure to give a heads up to my still-in-bed-family so they didn't get startled by me hammering away...

Sharing over at Framed Frosting

If you had a hammer,
would you hammer in the morning?
Would you hammer in the evening?
Would you hammer all over this land? I need to know these things ;)

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Katja Kromann
About Katja Kromann

I am a Danish American decorating life in Seattle. I love all things design and DIY.

I can’t think of anything more fun than coming up with project, making it, photographing it and sharing it with you on my websites.

I am a Graphic Artist, a remodeller and home maker by day.

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