{"id":498,"date":"2015-09-03T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-12-31T17:41:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T17:41:51","slug":"name-plaques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepaintpalette.co.uk\/static\/blog\/name-plaques\/","title":{"rendered":"Name Plaques"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently finished two door plaques for each of my granddaughters……<\/span>
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\n<\/span>I had a couple of mdf blanks in my stash and Jo said she wanted the backgrounds to be pale grey, so I got them base-coated and then went on the computer to play with different styles of lettering. Once this was decided, I then enlarged their names to the right size and traced the letters onto tracing paper with the plaque size traced too…..now for the fun bit!<\/span>
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\n<\/span>As Evie who is 6 is often in my studio with me, I asked her what style of flowers she wanted and asked her to choose the colours. She had recently been telling me all about butterflies in her garden too so I added one of those with some extra stitching to the flowers.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Iyla is only 2 so I got to choose the flowers….daisies for me as I LOVE to paint them. \u00a0I chose a warm red for her lettering and couldn’t resist adding a caterpillar to one of the letters.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Finally I felt the plaques needed a checked border to finish them off.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>I’m glad to say Rob and Jo LOVED them….Evie was pretty impressed too ha ha.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Til next time…<\/span>
\nDawn x<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently finished two door plaques for each of my granddaughters…… I had a couple of mdf blanks in my stash and Jo said she wanted the backgrounds to be pale grey, so I got them base-coated and then went on the computer to play with different styles of lettering. 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