Vintage Ironing Board ART

Do you remember the vintage ironing board I picked up last month?  I got it at a church yard sale for $5.00.  (My personal limit when I thrift)

I had no idea what I was going to do with it. When I was looking at it, the lady said “do you need an old ironing board”?  I told her, that I didn’t need one, but I was going to buy it anyway. 

I found an image from Karen @ the graphics fairy.   Did you know that you can print oversized images from your own printer? I didn’t, so I googled it.  You don’t have to google it, I’ll tell you how to do it.

I opened the picture, and told it to print. When the print menu popped up, I went into the “options” or “settings” menu.  From there I chose page layout. I chose Multi-Page- Poster Printing. You can see that I chose 2x2.  I also choose to do a print preview BEFORE printing option.   For my printer, that is located under the Advanced tab.

Here you can see that it will print out on 4 pieces of paper.  After the 4 pieces print, you just trim them a little and tape them together.   Easy Peasy!      You can thank me later!  I love sharing what I learn with you guys!

I taped my four pieces together, then trimmed away all the extra paper. I taped the dress from on the ironing board. I have a very colorful beach towel underneath it because I didn’t want it to scratch my DIY Kitchen Island.

I used a ball point pen to trace the lines which left an impression on the wooden ironing board. I used some black craft paint and a small paint brush to paint the lines on the ironing board.

I was so busy painting, I guess I didn’t take any “in progress” pictures.

This is the step that I may regret. I got another image from Karen @ the Graphics Fairy.  I liked the image but I don’t think I did a very good job transferring it and painting it. However, in the spirit of “keeping it real” I show you everything, whether I like it or not.

I laid the ad on the board, and taped of the correct size.

Then I painted it the best matching color I had.   I got very busy transferring the image with a ballpoint pen-then painting  over those lines, and again, I didn’t take any pictures.

I was not thrilled with the end result.  I am not a very good detailed painter.

At this point, I’m liking the dress form, but the advertisement? Not so much.

I thought it was too new looking, so I took some sandpaper to it.

I may or may not be finished with this project. The advertisement does show up better than it does in pictures.  I have gotten an enlargement of the original image from the nice people at Staples.  I may sand off the image that I painted and decoupage the enlarged ad on it.  I’m open to suggestions.

I felt I could go two different ways with this ironing board. I could focus on the laundry room, or a sewing room. I sort of thought in my neck of the woods, a seamstress might go for it before someone would want it for their laundry room.  I still need to corral the legs on the back and add some hardware on it in case someone would like to hang it on their wall for art.

gail

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