you can't keep a good girl down

This next project I actually started some time back, but couldn't finish it till today. It's a door ornament - frankly, I don't know what to call it, so I'm just going to call it a door ornament because it's meant to decorate the door of my baby's bedroom.



This project was scraplifted (aka: copied) from the Foof-a-Life book I bought. It's rather easy to do:

1. Get a metal tin cover.
2. Sand the inner and outer rims (so the paint will hold), and the "inside" - where the word "BEBE" is.
3. Paint inner and outer rims with 2 coats of acrylic paint, drying after each coat. Go for a third coat if necessary.
4. Decoupage patterned paper onto the "inside".
5. Cover all painted surfaces with decoupage medium. This is to seal the paint, so that it won't scratch off the metal.
6. Embellish with flowers, lace and glitzy letters.
7. Add ribbon and bead trim around the outer rim.

You're done! Easy eh? Well, easy if you can find bead trim in the stores. I couldn't find bead trim at Spotlight so I had to buy beads and sew (by hand) my own fringe of beads onto bias binding. It's tough working with beads! My hands seem so big and clumsy! But I love the sparkly effect they add to projects. I think I'm going to experiment working with beads more in the future.





Here's how it looks stuck on baby's room door:





My preggie friends - if you can find a metal tin cover like the one I used, I'll make one for you too! :)