Gold and Green Ombre Spring Sign
I created a beautiful green ombre spring sign, and I am sharing the tutorial here!
I have finally made a little foray into the stunning world of gold with my most recent mantel décor- and I am excited to share this super easy and quick Gold and Green Ombre Spring Sign tutorial with you today.
I must confess I used to have a major aversion to all things gold but with all the beautiful projects I have seen lately it has grown on me like moss on our roof.
This project was crazy thrifty for me since I owned all the supplies I needed. I don’t own a silhouette (#firstworldproblems) so I used scrapbooking stickers instead. I also used white and gold craft paint and an inexpensive canvas from the dollar store. I needed to do some touch ups so I used a gold paint pen for that.
I began by painting my canvas with a couple of coats of my gold paint. The color doesn’t really show accurately in this picture, it really was a lovely deep shade of gold. I then placed the scrapbook stickers down and tried to press the edges down as firmly as I could to prevent paint from leaking through.
Then, I just did one coat of paint- I started with white at the top and green at the bottom and gradually blended them to create an ombre effect- it is pretty easy to do and you can’t really mess it up since you can add more of either color if you need it to go darker or lighter in an area. Play with it until you get the effect you like.
Once it has fully dried, you carefully peel off your scrapbook letters. If you actually own a silhouette you likely won’t have the ugly leakage that I had. Nothings perfect.
So I just fixed that up with some careful work with my gold paint pen. Like it was never there.
I liked how this was such a quick and easy project and am surprisingly in love with the gold touches on our early spring mantel- do you like it with the green and yellow? I do… Proves gold doesn’t have to be heavy and elegant but can be cute and fresh too, in the right combination.
So shimmery and pretty…
I love things that are this quick and easy. Especially during report card week!
Want to try it?
I’ll be back to show you more of the mantel soon – but for now you can find a little more inspiration in these other 9 amazing gold projects…
I am so thrilled to team up with this fabulous group of bloggers to share our All That Glitters Gorgeous Gold Ideas with you today.
I am feeling myself more and more converted to this previously detested metallic.
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How about you? Do you love gold? Or hate it??
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Oh I love this!! Thanks for the inspiration. I just moved to the beach and I need an address plaque for the back fence that has a walk path to the beach.
Anyway, I am going to copy this and use blue…because THE BEACH!. Thanks again. It looks great.
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I love this, Krista. It’s perfect for the beginning of spring and you know I love GOLD!!
I am loving gold now too Chelsea- all you classy girls are influencing me!!
Love this! Just what we need to help us remember that something green is coming after all this snow!
Absolutely Dani- our little bit of snow is gone now (west coast….) but we had monsoon rains yesterday – there will be sunshine again one day, right?? Thanks for your visit!
Krista! I ADORE THIS! I love everything about it–the ombre, the colors and especially the quote. Pinning and sharing!