Wooden American Flag

4th of July is my favorite Holiday.

The colors, 

The weather, 

The Patriotism, 

The parties, 

parades, fireworks, and the American Flag!

Here's my attempt at a rustic handmade American Flag!

Supplies

Piece of plywood Square, bought at Home Depot for $5

White Primer

Red and Blue Craft paint

Painters Blue Tape

Star Stickers

Paint Brush

Glaze (Clear, tinted as you like)

I started with the square sheet of plywood and cut it in half.

then I primed it white.

It's been soo hot here, it was completely dry in less then an hour.

I then added my stripes and stars section by

 using painters tape.

This is just decorative, yes, 

I know that there are actually 13 stripes on the flag!!

(It was just easier using the entire width of tape vs.cutting it)

I painted my red stripes with craft paint, with three coats using a sponge brush. Easy peasy!

While the red was drying, I panic-ed since I wanted to complete this flag the same day, and I couldn't fin d the star stickers in my scrapbook supply stash. 

Sooo, instead of running to Michaels, I Googled star images, and printed them on mailing labels.

I patiently, grrr, cut out a batch of star stickers, and randomly placed them on the white square in the upper corner of my flag.

I painted the entire left corner over the star stickers with blue craft paint, and let dry.

Then I peeled the stickers off and it worked!!! I was so pleased that my homemade stickers did the trick!

The flag looked pretty, but I wanted it to look vintage and worn, and not off the shelf new.

So, I experienced my first time using glaze.

From reading blogs, I assumed that glaze was automatically a dark stainish color, but to my surprise, the glaze that I purchased needed to be mixed with a color.

So, again, I became resourceful, and mixed the glaze with orange, baby blue, and yellow craft paint to come up with a brownish/goldish glaze.

I painted the glaze on the flag, 

then wiped off with a paper towel.

I'm pretty happy with the outcome, 

a cute flag for a $5 investment!!

Linking up to

A Bowl Full of Lemons