Family Desktop Frame with Faux Wood Burning

Howdy!

Tami here with another project to show you.

A few years ago, my family went to Dallas for a mini vacation and I had been wanting to create something to display a photos of all of us.

Clear Scraps has a nice selection of Desktop Frames, and I thought the wood Family Desktop Frame would be perfect.

I decided to try out a technique that had popped into my head when I was digging through my studio awhile back.

My son had been into wood burning and I had inherited his wood burning supplies. I like how it looks, but had had trouble achieving consistent results when I tried my hand at it.

My idea was to try mimic-ing the look by using brown ink and a stencil. I was very happy with how the frame turned out...

I started the project by inking the "FAMILY" portion of the frame with aqua ink.

I also inked the frame using the same ink, just a lighter application of it...

The base pieces were inked with aqua ink and brown ink...

Next, it was time to add the faux "wood burn". I used blue painters tape to hold the stencil to the wood frame and taped off portions that I did not want to ink. Then I applied brown ink to the stencil; the bottom portion of the Lace Doily Border Stencil was used...

Here's how it looked...

I then used the top portion of the stencil on the FAMILY letters at the top of the frame...

Here's a close-up pic of them after stenciling...

All pieces were lightly distressed around the edges with brown ink...

I printed out a quote to use by the photo and adhered both it and the photo to a piece of cardstock cut to the outer size of the frame.

Then it was time to assemble the frame...

A few paper flowers and a twine bow were added to the upper left corner as finishing touches...

I hope you enjoyed this project and technique and will try it out on one of your projects.

Supplies:

Clear Scraps: Family Desktop Frame and Lace Doily Border Stencil

Other: Clear Snap: ColorBox Chestnut Roan Chalk Ink, Moonstone Dyestress Ink and Stylus & Tips, Paper Flowers, Pearls, Twine White Cardstock and Blue Painters Tape