Hello, my dear crafty friends! Those who know me also know that I am a real ” faux crafty” person and today I have prepared a faux wood tutorial for you.

I mean I love to find my own frugal ways to get supplies that are not available in Israel or at least to find a way to make very similar ones. Wooden pieces are one of those products.

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So this is my faux wood tutorial made for those who love wooden pallets on the wall, but can’t buy them as they are far away from any craft shops, like I am or can’t afford to ship them from USA to wherever they live. This was the main reason to try to make my own ‘wood’ and it’s quite a success!

Supply list:

Kraft cardstock: American Crafts
Paints, marker, and gesso: Faber-Castell DMC Gelatos
Embossing powder: Clearsnap
Stamps: Inspired by Stamping
Ink: Clearsnap
Stickers: Paper House Productions
Other: a toothbrush. mists

Here is my tutorial:

1. Take an old toothbrush and cut every second row with scissors. Add gesso- I used Faber Castell DMC gesso- over Kraft cardstock using your new low-cost crafty tool.

2. Add a thick layer of clear embossing powder over the wet gesso and heat emboss it completely.

3. Add strokes of brown Gelato or any other watercolor brown paint and wipe it with a baby wipe.

4. Add a mix of brown colors using Big Brush Artist pens and more Gelatos. If you feel that it’s too light add some dark brown homemade mist made from Gelato pieces, mixing browns and a bit of black. Add as much as you want to make your ‘wood’ darker or lighter. As all colors are not water resist, you can wipe some paint if it’s too dark, as I did with my final project.

5. Using the simple metal ruler make your horizontal black lines with black Gelato

Your wooden piece is done. Cut it to strips to make a pallet as I did for my final project.

And this is my” Live- Laugh- Love” wall art:

First I cut the piece into 5 parts and arranged the pallet. Then I used a package of Paper House Productions stickers, one on each ‘wooden’ piece.

Some butterflies were stamped, heat embossed and made as 3D stickers with two or three layers and colored with mists.

And this is how this project looks:

I hope you like my project and see you soon again!

6 Comments

Roberta Birnbaum on May 26, 2015 at 3:08 am

Great tutorial, Irit. You could have fooled me!
Michele on May 26, 2015 at 10:24 am

Greetings,
Great project and tutorial. I love “faux”.
Love and light,
Michele
Carmen Whitehead on May 26, 2015 at 3:03 pm

That is so cool! It really looks like wood. Great tutorial!
Larissa on May 27, 2015 at 7:55 pm

Wow this is just Awesome Irit.
Lisa Rojas on June 4, 2015 at 4:47 pm

Fantastic tutorial Irit!!!
Martha Lucia Gomez on June 5, 2015 at 9:42 am

Great tutorial!!! I love this technique!!! Thank you for sharing this with us Irit.