French Roses Tray

Today I'm featuring another chalk painted tray that I used the Poly Transfer Method on.  The french typography came once again from The Graphic Fairy.  For this piece, I added hand painted roses using regular acrylic (Americana/Ceramcoat) paint.  To see the stages of the creation, please scroll down. 

The first thing I did was paint the tray using chalk paint from DecoArt Americana.  Once that was dry, I transferred the french wording using the Poly Transfer Method.   

I painted the roses using regular acrylic paint.  

The design is a variation of a Ginger Edwards pattern. 

After all the roses and leaves were painted, I added faint layers of green and peach to the body of the tray to pull in the roses.  I then fly specked the tray using dark green and burnt sienna. 

I sealed the tray with poly acrylic varnish and then antiqued and varnished again. Finally, I painted the handles and edge rim gold.  I also antiqued those and varnished.

I am very pleased with how this tray turned out.  The merger of transfer and hand painting created a unique one-of-a-kind piece.  I will be taking this tray with me to sell at the upcoming Davisburg Antique and Vintage Show

Edit:

Proud to announce that this tray was featured on 

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