How Now Brown Cow

Top of the day to ya, Ladies!

It's a lovely Fall morning here in Iowa.

Crisp temps, bright sunshine...

Makes me want to go pick a pumpkin or something.

;)

When I revealed the 

before and after of my oak pedestal table yesterday, 

a few people commented on the cow sign in the background.

Isn't it cute?

I threw it together in less than a couple of hours.

And for FREE!

Good deal!

Unfortunately, I didn't take pics of the process.

Whoops!

I didn't think anyone would notice it.

LOL!

But really, it was a simple process.

The board is actually a leaf from an oak table 

that was too water damaged to do anything with.

Two coats of MMSMP "Lucketts Green" 

- although I think the surface was too porous, so it didn't distress.

I freezer paper transferred a silhouette of a cow 

from the internet onto the center of the board 

- but because the word "Brown" is longer than "How" it looks off center 

- and that kind of bugs me a bit A LOT.  

;)

Then I just printed out the letters on regular printer paper, 

cut them out with an X-acto knife, 

and stenciled them on with "Burnt Umber"  folkArt acrylic paint.

It's time like this that I really wish I had a Silhouette or Cricut!

And painted over the cow with the acrylic too.

Next, because I'm definitely not an artist, I typed the words into iPages, added shadow to the text, and then copied where the shadow needed to be.

The shadow is in "Vintage White" folkArt Acrylic.

Distressed lightly.

DONE.

I like it with my blue Ball/Atlas jar collection.  

:)

For now, it's just sitting on top of a buffet mirror, 

but I'll hang it... 

Somewhere. 

Eventually.

;)

I think it's pretty cute!

How Now Brown Cow.

Dream Big,