Month of Martha Giveaway. Enter Today! (Week # 2)

To celebrate the release of the new Martha Stewart craft line, available at Michaels nationwide now, we here at Plaid are hosting a giveaway. But this is not just any giveaway, this is a Month of Martha Giveaway. Every week for a month, we will hold a giveaway, that will have a different prize from the new line up for grabs. Every Monday at noon we will announce a new giveaway prize, and announce the winners of that week’s prize on Friday afternoon.  We are giving away this an amazing prize pack to 1 lucky Paint Me Plaid blog reader. This week’s giveaway is going to be a prize pack filled with the following:

1 Large Brush Set

1 Detailing Brush Set

1 Stippling Brush

A 3 color assortment of paint from the new paint line

All you have to do is leave a comment below telling us what you would create using any or all of the items in the prize pack? For extra entries (leave a separate comment for each):

Check out our sister blog, Plaid Kid’s Crafts, and let us know a project you find there that you think is cool

Like Plaid on Facebook and let us know you entered the giveaway

Follow @PlaidCrafts onTwitter

The contest will end Friday September 9th at 12 noon EST.

Make it Monday: Vibrant Jewelry Box

First off Plaid would like to wish everyone, Happy Labor Day! We sure hope you all are enjoying a little time off, and celebrating the end of summer. Whatever you are doing, we hope crafting are part of your plans. Here is a great last minute summer project you can create. Please feel free to switch up the FolkArt colors used, with other hues from us. This adorable project was made by one of our talented designers, Sherrie Ragsdale. This is an intermediate skill level project, and will take anywhere between 1 hour to 1.5 hours to complete.

Supplies Needed:

FolkArt Acrylic Paints: 515 Vintage White, 413 Pink, 2553 Lime Green, 628 Pure Orange, 444 Patina, 516 Light Lavender, 938 Licoric

Plaid unfinished wooden box with double frames found at Walmart, Stencil Brush, Large Flat Brush, Medium Flat Brush, Small Flat Brush, Liner Brush, Masking Table, Tracing Paper, Pencil

Instructions:

1.  Tape off the top and Bottom portion on box leaving an inch space in between and then paint the center vintage white.

2.  Tape off the top portion of box and paint it patina and then tape off the bottom portion of box and paint lime green.  Allow to dry.

3.  Remove the top by unscrewing the hinges.  Remove the glass from frames.  Paint the top with lime green.  Allow to dry.  Paint the wooden frame inserts with patina.

4.  Add the dots and swirls using the liner brush dipped in vintage white.

5.  Add the pink stripe using the small flat brush.  Allow to dry.

6.  Trace the flower on all sides of box.  Trace the heart on the frame inserts.

7.  Paint the flower light lavender with an orange center.  Paint the heart light lavender.  Allow to dry.  Outline in licorice and add black oval dots in the center of the flower.

8.  Dry brush the flowers and the pink and vintage white center with licorice. Also the heart.

9.  To dry brush the center stripe, tape off first