Bird Lamp Tutorial

It's another bird post.  I'm at risk of an intervention, I know, but I have to show you how I (re)made this lamp.

I've done a couple of projects using this same process.

This one...

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And this one...

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It's fast.  And pretty easy.  

I'll show you again if you missed the other tutorials...

Color, circa 1987?  Shade, a little too shabby to be Chic?

After a good sanding and a nice coat of creamy white spray paint it was looking pretty good.

I found these gorgeous birds at The Graphics Fairy,  printed them out on card stock and carefully cut them out.  I like using card stock for decoupage projects.  It's easy to control.   It doesn't wrinkle up when you hit it with a little Mod Podge and there's no curling up and rolling away.

I played around with the placement of the birds.  I wish I could remember to do this before I paint on the limbs but, well,  that would be someone else's blog, now wouldn't it?

I have a nice assortment of Plaid paints I used for the limbs and leaves.  I get good coverage and I love the millions of colors.

I used Mod Podge (which I called Hodge Podge for years....sorry Plaid) to attach the pretty birds.  I brushed a good heavy coat on the back, pressed it onto the lamp, then brushed some on the front of the paper as well.

I washed the entire lamp with watered down brown paint for an aged look.  A good coat of clear spray paint, a little lamp shade love and there you have it -- another bird project because you just can't have too many of 'em.

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