{"id":4253,"date":"2017-05-07T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontporchmercantile.com\/?p=4253"},"modified":"2017-12-29T19:16:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T23:16:46","slug":"graffiti-painted-leather-bench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frontporchmercantile.com\/graffiti-painted-leather-bench\/","title":{"rendered":"Graffiti Painted Leather Bench"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi, Front Porch Friends!<\/p>\n

I’ve been MIA a bit here on the blog as I’ve been super busy getting our house ready to sell (can I just tell you downsizing is NOT fun and there will be a few blog posts on that – someone needs to talk me off the ledge lol) and I’ve been a bit waylaid since my mom fell and broke her back (she’s recovering and thank you for the prayers those of you who knew about it).<\/p>\n

\"Love<\/p>\n

\"Graffiti<\/p>\n

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I’ve been painting and updating and doing ALL the small things I always wanted to do around my house and I should probably be doing \u00a0DIY posts every day. I “think”I painted 22 things in the last 2 weeks – for real. The funny part is we did all the big things it was just the little things and some de-cluttering that needed to be done. Phew.<\/p>\n

Expect upcoming blog posts on some of the DIY projects like my Fusion painted front door (that I painted twice because I am a woman who changes her mind often – good thing you can repaint over paint) ha ha, also my refinished oak table with Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk Paint and Fusions new Stain and Finishing Oil, a new bar we finished with Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk Paint and more. (posting these for accountability so I make myself write the blog posts ha ha)<\/p>\n

I have been posting lots of FB lives though, updates and projects. On a couple of my videos I showed the fun new “grafitti” piece I painted up and promised a blog post.<\/p>\n

I painted up a leather bench a few years ago – yup I did – you can see how I did that with FAT Paint chalk paint HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is how it looked originally WAY back then – for real guys. Plain old black leather.<\/p>\n

\"Leather<\/p>\n

Then after I painted it (you can read about\u00a0that HERE<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"Fat<\/p>\n

It held up REALLY well but there were a few scratches and I\u00a0wanted to “repurpose” it down in the games room.<\/p>\n

I saw this super cool chair<\/a>, painted with Fusion Mineral Paint and Funky Junk Stencils by Bliss Ranch and loved it. It gave me an idea and inspiration.<\/p>\n

Since we carry the Funky Junk Stencils I had them all sitting right there in my studio…so….I just grabbed them and started painting. I used FAT Paint chalk paint as the bench had been waxed. I will admit, I just wiped it clean and started stencilling. This bench will not get a lot of wear so I didn’t stress too much.<\/p>\n

Supplies Needed to Grafitti Painted Leather bench<\/h2>\n
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  1. Funky Junk Stencils (available at both Front Porch Mercantile locations<\/a>\u00a0or online here<\/a>)<\/li>\n
  2. Stencil Brush – I use one like thi<\/a>s<\/li>\n
  3. FAT Paint<\/a> or Fusion Mineral Paint<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Top coat – FAT Natural Wax<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I didn’t plan, or place or think, I just started randomly putting the stencils on. It was super fun. I top coated with Clear Natural Wax.<\/p>\n

    Sand after stencilling to rough up and blend the words.<\/p>\n

    \"Graffiti<\/p>\n

    \"Cool<\/p>\n

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    Why didn’t I do that long ago?<\/p>\n

    \"Graffiti<\/p>\n

    I’m digging the way it turned out, what do you think?<\/p>\n

    (a nod to turning 50 this year) lol<\/p>\n

    \"a<\/p>\n

    Here it is in the games room.<\/p>\n

    \"updating<\/p>\n

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    Thanks for popping in Front Porch Friends, I hope to post a few more posts soon about DIY and Downsizing – oh the joy!<\/p>\n

    Cheers,<\/h2>\n

    Wendy<\/h2>\n

    PS – see how Donna from Funky Junk was a little inspired by our bench to do her entire patio furniture.<\/p>\n

    See that post HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

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    \"cool<\/p>\n

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    Hi, Front Porch Friends! I’ve been MIA a bit here on the blog as I’ve been super busy getting our house ready to sell (can I just tell you downsizing is NOT fun and there will be a few blog posts on that – someone needs to talk me off the ledge lol) and I’ve…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":39,"label":"Inspiration"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/www.frontporchmercantile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/grafittibencheasy.jpg",750,879,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Front Porch Mercantile","author_link":"https:\/\/www.frontporchmercantile.com\/author\/wendyevergreenclean-ca\/"},"comment_info":6,"category_info":[{"term_id":39,"name":"Inspiration","slug":"inspiration","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":41,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":25,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":39,"category_count":25,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Inspiration","category_nicename":"inspiration","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frontporchmercantile.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frontporchmercantile.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frontporchmercantile.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frontporchmercantile.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frontporchmercantile.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.frontporchmercantile.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frontporchmercantile.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frontporchmercantile.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frontporchmercantile.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frontporchmercantile.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}