These gorgeous burnished metal flowers are wonderful on their own or as an accent piece. The warm rich deep colors in them lend themselves to anything you can do with them.

Surface
28-0749 Paper Mache Picket Square Art Box Ribbon Tie Box
23-1707 Burnished Tin-tiques Butterfly 1 package
23-1710 Flower 3 packages
23-1711 Leaf 1 package

Delta Ceramcoat Acrylics
www.deltacrafts.com

Brushes
Royal and Langnickle
www.royalbrush.com
Aqualon
Series 2585 #1 liner
Series 700 wash/glaze 1"
Seawool sponge
Old ratty house painting brush

Miscellaneous Supplies
Water container
Paper towel
Tracing paper
Transfer paper
Palette paper
Scissors
Stylus
Transparent tape
E6000 Glue
wire
wire cutters

Preparation
* The really great thing about paper mache of this quality is that you just pick it up and start to paint. There is no preparation required. Just enjoy and have fun.

Instructions
* Using the 1" wash/glaze brush entirely cover all of the fence post in Bahama Purple.
* Using the old ratty house brush lightly load the tip of the brush in White, rub back and forth on the palette to work the paint into the bristles and remove any excess color. Streak diagonally in both directions until the entire box is covered.
* Using the 1" wash/glaze and a mix of equal parts White and Faux Glaze Medium Clear lightly cover the whole box. Tip: The color can be thinned with water but this makes it very soupy. If you use water to thin the color, do not have to much of the thinned color in your brush or it will run every where.
* Using the seawool sponge pat into the Gamal Green and the Eucalyptus, pat on the palette to remove the excess paint. Lightly pat on to the surface where the flowers will go with a straight up and down patting motion.

To Finish
* Apply as many coats of Satin Varnish as desired.

To Assemble
* Cut the wire into 10" pieces wrap each end around a skewer or similar round object.
* Referring to the color picture start gluing all of the pieces in place.