***Wall DECOR Project***

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

If you came by my blog a few weeks back you would

know I just finished sharing my recent decorating

of my homes living areas for Fall.

I moved a few pieces of furniture and now opened

up a new area for some wall displays.

So I went off to HobLob and found a cool

faux Photo with the unique letterings that

spelled out FAMILY for $10!!!

THAT was my inspiration piece.

 I added my daughters Triple Pix from her

graduation pictures...love my pretty girl!

With the last piece being my *project*.

I recenlty found our Victorian Style Marriage Certificate

 that was given to my hubby and I

as a wedding gift from the Minister who married us.

I had tucked this certificate away for 25 years.

In a recent cleaning of my craft studio I

ran across it again and finally knew what

would become of this lovely piece of my

marriage history.

Okay, so please don't be mad, cuz,

 I meant to take before pictures and

as is my sometimes bad habit,

before I know it the project was done.

Anyone relate to this happening?

Here's what I did:

I took a 16x20 White Canvas board and

began painting deep burgandy, golds and

carmel colors as my base background.

I then lightly watered the edges of the paper

and tore them to give a tattered document feel.

I then used Mod Podge to adhere the certificate.

Then used that great spray stain to age it all

a bit more.  Then I added a thick coat

 of mod podge over the entire piece.

For me this board was a bit too plain so

I stained a vintage crocheted piece I had

and then glued a cross I had also purchased

from HOBLOB.  This was all glued to the

top...

Okay...the last pictures is of my new

wall display corner!

If you are interested in something like this for your

own home, I actually did a search for

VICTORIAN Certificates and came up with

a number of places that these can be purchased

on line from!

Hope I inspired you!

Be Blessed

Lorena