welcome or welcome back if you're new here my
name is katie i am the owner and artist behind salvaged by k scott
normally we hang out in my garage painting and restyling
found and thrifted furniture pieces but this week in southern ontario has been
so incredibly hot and humid i don't want to spend any time
out there it's not good for paint or top coats to
dry in that kind of condition so today we're
going to spend some time in my basement workshop hence the
beautiful fluorescent lighting and work on some mini furniture
i picked up a couple of jewelry boxes
i've never painted a jewelry box before so this is going to be a first for me
i picked up these two at my local value village for 3.99 each
when i was looking through them i grabbed the two that had
the cleanest interiors this slightly larger one
has a broken hinge i'm going to have to find some sort of
wire or pin to repair that but i'll worry about that later
like all of my painted pieces i want to start off with some good
prep work once i got this tricky price tag off the top of this box i gave
both of them a really good scrub down with some fantastic
basically you just want a good degreasing cleaner to get rid of
any dirt grime or greasy fingerprints
i used a few small pieces of painters tape as mini
lint rollers to remove anything that was hiding down in this velvet as well
last step of prep is a quick scuff sand with some 300
grit sandpaper
on the first box i'm going to use some rust-oleum chalked
in linen white and my zebra square brush this brush is the perfect size for a
tiny project like this
since i'm painting a light color over a dark surface this is probably going to
take three maybe even four coats of paint
and for my second box i'm adding a little bit of this pink acrylic paint
into some of my white chalk paint just to make a softer pink color
and by the time i was ready for a second coat i had changed my mind on the colors
for both boxes the smaller of the boxes is now going to
be painted in country chic vanilla frosting which is a beautiful
antique white
and the larger jewelry box is going to get a few more coats of country chic's
sunday tea
i ended up needing three coats on each box to get full coverage
and then i went back with my 300 grit sandpaper just to smooth out any brush
strokes
now for the fun stuff on the first box i made myself
a little honeycomb stencil
i applied my stencil over one corner of the smaller box
and i'll mask off the rest of the box and we'll run it to the garage really
quickly to do a quick coat of spray paint
i cannot get enough of this rust-oleum metallic gold lately i've been using it
on everything
i sprayed one quick coat over my stenciled area and then brought it back
inside the house so that it could dry out of the heat and humidity
i liked it a lot the way that it was but my seven-year-old son came down into the
workshop and told me it needed to be more golder
so that's what i'm gonna do i used some gold gilding wax from michael's and a
large wax brush to apply several layers
so i got a little carried away with the gold gilding wax
the top was too much so i came back with a damp rag
and just rubbed off the wax from the top surface
i really love the contrast of the warm gold with that creamy white color
all right let's set the honeycomb aside and work on the second box
for this one i wanted to do a really cute rainbow
unfortunately i don't trust myself to do this freehand
so i made myself another stencil
for this guy i used some little makeup sponges to
dab on three different shades of sort of bricky coraly pink colors
that i think are gonna look really nice on the taupey warm beige base
i always like to apply several thin coats of paint when i'm working with a
stencil if you put too much paint on it once you
risk it bleeding up underneath the
stencil
i couldn't find any yellow paint in my craft stash so i decided to use the same
gold gilding wax to fill in the cute little sun detail
and that's it we're all done two cute little jewelry box makeovers
once this crazy heat wave breaks i will take these outside and spray them down
with some of my favorite varithane protective top coat
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you