Keeping the Calm

Monday   August 5, 2013
  The KEEP CALM decor is very popular right now, and I wanted to make one for my craft area.
  
I’ll show you how I made it.  I found this .25 8x10 picture frame at one of my favorite thrift stores.  Sorry for the glare.      

After I sanded it, I mixed white acrylic paint with my Close To My Heart pacifica reinker.  Sorry, I don’t have a ratio, I just poured in some paint and added about 15 to 20 drops of reinker.  You can use more or less to achieve your desired color. 
 
I then painted three coats of the paint.  I stored the extra paint in a plastic container to use again for another project.  Check back later to find out what.  For the background paper, I used a paper from Close To My Heart’s retired Elemental paper packs.  One of all time favorite paper pack.  I cut the letters and crown from pacifica cardstock with the Artiste Cricut cartridge.  Both are from Close To My Heart.  The letters are cut at 1 1/2 inches and the small letters are cut at 1 inch.  The crown is cut at 1 1/4 inches.  I glued the cardstock letters onto the patterned paper, eyeballing the center, with a glue pen.  I like how it turned out.  I might make some of these for gifts.  Pare’ has already requested one.