A LITTLE MAKE OVER

Two little pictures transformed and updated.

I fell out of love with these little images years ago, but left them in situ.  I then needed the space they occupied for a paper cut that our girl did as a present - she's very good with a scalpel.

Rather than ditch them or give them to charity, I had an idea.

We have various tins of half used chalk paint at our unit that were purchased when our girl started up-cycling furniture many moons ago, so I put some of it to good use.

Took the pictures apart, cleaning the glass both sides. The frames were given a quick rub with Scotch Brite.

I then gave them  two coats of chalk paint, allowing to dry thoroughly between coats. Then the edges had a little rub with Scotch Brite for a distressed look.  

You can just see some of the original gilt showing through which is just what I wanted.

They then had quick application of  wax.

I found some images online that I liked and printed them out.

Put everything back together and put them up just where they needed to be, in our bathroom.

I'm rather pleased with them actually, especially as they cost nothing and took very little time.  I would say that I could have used a white undercoat to get the same effect as the chalk paint (tried it on a box I'm doing up, and it works). So if you have any frames that you want to update, you don't need to spend out if you've got a bit of undercoat lying around!