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Jodie Bushman has another book – The Big Book of Decorative Borders. This is another book by her. I have 2 copies of this book but only 1 is for sell. The retail price in the market is RM95.00. I am selling this for RM35 with additional RM8 as postage and handling.
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There are 12 projects with different techniques on various surface and easy to follow instructions.
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Check out the table of content.
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There’s list of materials needed. Basically if you have done decorative painting before, these are what people normally need.
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I’m interested with her suggestion to use plastic pencil case with deli paper as palette. I could have save a lot of paint because as a mom you never know when you will have time to really sit down and paint.
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These are the basic techniques on how to load the paint. She even shows how to make dots. (Note to self: get a stylus next time I shop)
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Not to scare the first timer, the first project is to do on a ready made letter rack. You just need to sand on the area where you will paint the borders.
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There are about 8 steps to follow. What a great and thoughtful gift for a house warming, don’t you think so?
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Once you feel confident, let’s move to a bigger piece like this trunk. It looks challenging but actually it’s a repetition of borders.
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I remember among the first thing I learned many years ago during folk art class is to do strokes for daisy. Maybe it’s about time I take out all my brushes and try this project.
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For this lamp shade project, you will get to learn on how to draw border on curved surface.
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Another one I would love to try is to paint border on fabric. Once you add the acrylic paint with textile medium, you can wash it.
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These are some borders you will get to learn in the three-step techniques. There are 32 borders taught in the 3 easy steps chapter.
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Oh, if you are feeling ambitious and would love to paint border on your kitchen wall for example, there’s one project on long repeating border. There are many wonderful tips to try.
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You will also find hundreds of borders, corner treatments and other embellishments to copy.
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There are patterns which you can trace or photocopy and enlarge to suit the size of your project.
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If you are interested to buy, hurry up and leave a comment with a valid email address or email me. There’s only one copy to sell.