Jacquard Products – Mona Lisa Make Over

Whenever I spot a wood heart in a thrift store, I cannot pass it up. I love to make them over. For this heart re-do, I used products from Jacquard. Follow along as I show you how I make this Mona Lisa using Jacquard paints and ExtravOrganza

The original heart really was not bad looking before. Kind of a crackly shabby chic roses look. But I dont have this decor style in my home. So, I decided to re-do in  silvery antique tones.

I used Jacquard’s Neopaque in black to base coat the heart on the front. Neopaque. Neopaque paints are designed to cover dark backgrounds with light application so you will need only one coat here.

Use a wax candle to apply wax to random areas of the front surface. This will produce a distressed effect after you have applied the next color.

Paint the surface of the heart in Neopaque White. Apply a light coat to produce a color washed effect. This will make the wood heart look more aged.

When this coat dries, lighly sand the surface. Areas where the wax was applied will remove very easily.

This is my favorite step and ExtravOrganza is fast becoming one of my favorite crafting products.

ExtravOrganza is a semi-transparent silk organza fabric sheet that is paper backed to run through an inkjet printer or inkjet copier.

Easy to use and extremely versatile, ExtravOrganza allows you to layer transparent images over the top of other artwork without blocking them. So that cool painted effect you just created on the heart will not be blocked by this step.

I downloaded an image from The Vintage Workshop and printed it on one of the ExtraOrganza sheets. To find this same letter, click here

I used the front of the heart as a template to trace with a black marker on the printed sheet.

I then used scissors to cut the heart out, cutting inside the traced lines about 1/4.”

To adhere the letter sheet to the heart, I placed a small bead of tacky glue on the edges of the wood heart.

For a unqiue focal point, I chose this Mona Lisa Clip art from The Vintage Workshop.

I had a brass frame in my stash that she would look perfect in.

But to make the brass coordinate with the silvery frame, I thought it needed a dry brushing of Lumiere in Metallic Silver.

To finish, glue the photo to the frame with tacky glue.

Glue on the frame with tacky glue as well. To mask any glue left on the edges, I added some self adhesive gem stones which my cat, Bob, loves more than I do.

I love this makeover! Tell me what you think…leave me a comment.

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