Mr. and Mrs. Paintings

So it has been awhile...I'm guilty of not posting for almost two months...time just got away from me. Hunny and I have just been busy with everyday living and I'd find myself at the end of the day thinking about how I need to blog and then a wave of exhaustion would sweep over me and I'd be climbing into bed instead, but I'm back!
Hunny had his birthday at the end of January and we had his sister, brother-in-law and their kids over for the weekend. I told Hunny to choose whatever kind of cake he wanted and I would bake it for him...he likes to be different and he chose a marble cake with mint chocolate frosting...And I baked it up for him. Used this recipe for the marble cake and this recipe for the frosting, modifying it by making it  mint chocolate by adding 1/2 cup of cocoa powder and just the tiniest amount of mint extract, because that's all you need for it to be minty, trust me, this stuff is powerful! Check out the result!

 The cake didn't last long, and even though this wouldn't have been my choice of cake, Hunny loved it!
February came rolling in and with it an awesome, crazy blizzard, as well as little snowstorms here and there...I'm way over shoveling! I'm pretty sure we received well over 3 feet of snow in February...and of course, our old house and the poor radiators couldn't keep up with the bitter cold...we finally called a heating company when all but two radiators quit working...it was horrible, but they got them back up and running and of course, now it's starting to get close to 50 degrees (F) out...such is life...February also started off by the birth of my little nephew, Noah! Ahhh! I can't wait to go visit him in the South in a couple weeks! I love newborn babies! I also had a procedure done on my foot in February that had me laid up for a little over a week...I'm glad February is over!
I did, however, find time to do a new art project. I came up with the idea of doing Mr. and Mrs. painting to hang up on our sides of the bed awhile ago, but I just got around to making them a couple weeks ago....Here it is!

I started out by purchasing two 18x24 canvases, some mod podge, a couple sponge brushes, fine sand paper, four eye hooks, and some black ribbon. I already had some paint on hand. I used Winsor &Newton Galeria Acrylics in Titanium White, Mars Black, and Yellow Ochre. I also, stole some newspaper from a box of mine I have yet to unpack filled with all my 4-H trophies and ribbons....I have a ton and I need to figure out what to do with all of it! 

I first painted the canvases with mod podge and pressed the newspaper on top of it. I tried to make some of the newspaper wrinkle to give it texture. I then painted mod podge on top of the newspaper and left it dry.

I then painted over the newspaper with a mixture of the Titanium White and Yellow Ochre. It made a new sandy beige color. Then the canvases were left to dry. I then lightly sanded the canvas to let some of the newspaper show through.

Next, I scoured the internet for a nice typewriter font. I was super picky because I wanted it to look just like it did in my mind. I believe this font is called King. I love it! I printed out mrs. because I could use it for mr. as well in a huge font size just to my liking and cut out the letters to use as stencils.

I placed to stencils in the middle of the canvas and traced around them with a pencil.

Next step was to paint in the mr. and mrs. with the Mars Black paint and let the canvases dry. While they were drying I painted the eye hooks black. Once everything was dry, I (as well as my muscle, aka Hunny) screwed two hooks into each canvas evenly spaced from the middle. I then cut two equal lengths of ribbon, I think it was around 20 inches each, threaded one through each canvas and simply tied the ends in a bow.

The Finished products! I love them and wish I could get a better picture of them because this doesn't do them justice! 

I hope you enjoy this project and it'll inspire you! I hope to do another post later in the week or early next about the strawberry jam I made and canned today! Stay tuned!