I chanced upon Purnima’s lovely dressed-up spoons and invited her for a tutorial over here at The Keybunch. She graciously accepted and has put together the most amazing tutorial for us. Over to you, Purnima!
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Greetings to The Key Bunch readers. My name is Purnima from aCreativeProject and I am here today to do a super easy tutorial on decorating wooden spoons. I am very excited to be here and would like to thank Sharon and Rekha for giving me an opportunity to showcase my creativity on their awesome blog!
Although I love simplicity, I get bored with plain settings. Hence I thought why not make them interesting. The inspiration behind this is to make everything personalized in the home. One’s home is a reflection of one’s emotions and persona. It should showcase your personality. It should make statement of your personal style even in small and mundane things around the house. I told myself that I should portray these aspects in my own home.
For this tutorial you need basic painting skills, acrylic colors, brushes, varnish and wooden spoons (I used the 3 set spoon set from IKEA).
This is how the spoons looked like before.
Now lets start painting. Paint the spoon with 2 base coats of your favorite color.
Let the base coat dry out before starting with the design of your choice on it. Do you like polka dots? I will show you an easy way is to make perfectly round dots by making a stencil with a paper puncher.
Punch holes in a paper.
Place this paper on the spoons and paint over it.
Improvise a bit as you desire.
You can also use Mehndi (Henna) stencils.
Let it dry at least for a day and then spray varnish only on the handles. Let the varnish dry for a couple of days.
Voila your spoons are ready to showoff 🙂 They are perfectly dishwasher safe.
Hope you liked this tutorial and if you have any more queries please feel free to contact me on my blog.
– Purnima
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Wasn’t that beautiful? Thank you Purnima! We loved it! We are hoping you will be back soon with another great tutorial. Do make your way over to Purnima’s blog. It’s full of lovely inspiration!
Oh gorgeous!! am a big fan of Purnima's work!! thanks for sharing……. 🙂
Thank you very much Sharon, Rekha and Gb for the kind and encouraging words!! So sweet of you!!!
Hi Sharon, The link to her blog is wrong. You might want to correct it 🙂 . lovely DIY idea.
Hi Sharon, The link to her blog is wrong. You might want to correct it 🙂 . lovely DIY idea.
Awesome!!
Thats a fabulous idea.. Purnima!!! Plus.. you make it sound really quick and easy.. 🙂
Wow Purnima..thanks, this is fabulous 🙂
what a lovely tutorial…thanks Purnima..will surely give it a try…heading to your blog now!
A great tutorial Purnima!…thanks Sharon for sharing 🙂
Mindful: Thanks for pointing out that dead link. It has been fixed!.
Thanks everyone for your words of appreciation for Purnima, isn't her work lovely?
Shruti: Thanks for pointing out the dead link. It's been corrected:)
Nice indeed and so easy! Thanks Purnima and Sharon! Delighted to see these easy tips.
poornima..this is absolutely brilliant and so creative!
Lovely tutorial Purnima, I saw something similar at the Dastkar exhibition this year and was wondering if we cold try the same at home..and with your tutorial, I know it's possible!
Oh how lovely! What a simple yet beautiful idea. What paints are safe to use? (In case the paint chips off, wouldn't want it to fall into food!)
Wonderful idea.Was planning to do something like this but just plain spray painting.This is way better.totally copying it.Thanks Poornima and Sharon.:-)
Thanks ladies!! OrangeJammies: I used acrylics:) Mine has not chipped a bit since a year of regular use and even though I wash them in a dishwasher!! Hope this helps!!
What a smart and pretty idea! Thanks for sharing!