My middle daughter wanted help re-purpsing a pair of jeans she hated she hates plain Jane blue pants. She got some ideas together and collected the acrylic paint and she and I set to work on this sitting on the garage floor to do this. We used a few shades of pink , purple, red, white, cream, black, yellow and green. Since we are currently visiting my in laws didn't want to make a mess of their lovely home. Laid garbage bags on the floor so as not to get it dirty either with paint splatter. If I had been at my own home I would have just laid this on the lawn and not cared about the splatter as it would go away into the grass.
Forgot to take a photo of the jeans before we started they are just a pair of faded jeans no stains on them and no holes all the staining you see we added with paint.
First we splattered and rubbed white paint into the jeans to give a distressed look. You could do this with bleach too but that weakens the jeans this gives the look of that but let's the jeans have their full life. Do this front and back. Tools used paint brush and tooth brush to splatter and rub thick paint comes out white thin watered down acrylic paint looks sort of like bleach marks.
Then we painted black branches on the jeans just free handed that, no drawing ahead of time, just used a normal medium acrylic paint brush flat edge.
I don't have a real good camera any more it got lost at Devils Gate on a hike it fell in the water a few summers back the reason I don't post much anymore. So sorry if the photos are not the best.
You can see above on my daughter's shorts she was testing out on
her shorts before she put on the jeans... not far in advance meaning she
was wearing the shorts and no paint was on them when we started she
tested while she was wearing them a few seconds before putting it on the
jeans,
We used a hair dryer to dry this faster between steps. All steps are done both front and back.
Next came adding the 5 petaled flowers which we used white pink purple and red mixed in different amounts to get the desired look. We used the back of the handle to make the petals. But you could use 5 dowels rubber banded or taped together to go faster just would be more uniform in appearance. We were going over the petals twice in some cases to add shading.
Once again my daughter was testing on her shorts. I made jokes that she was going to get two for the price of one with this project if she kept it up. She didn't care about the shorts as she planned to toss them after this project as they are too small. Because of this testing and cleaning of the brushed on her shorts she got way more paint on her than I did but I think she had more fun because of it too.
Below you can see the hair dryer inside the jeans to help dry the paint faster so we could turn the jeans over and work on the other side.
Hard to see in this photos below but we had added black, white and yellow
centers to the flowers. For this we used paint straight from the tube no thinning this was to give it texture and tool was a tooth pick you could do this faster too but putting 5 tooth picks around a dowel or straw and having the tooth picks over hang the edge so you could do all 5 dots at once. We also added green leaves with a touch of
yellow and added a little brown to the branches where they showed
through the flowers. Tool used was a flat edge brush for both leaves and branches.
All done painting in this photo except we turned them inside out and placed them in the dryer to heat set the paint. Then washed and dried them to soften the paint.
Later she wants me to add grommets and pink or black lacing to these jeans for a corseted look to the legs of the jeans. She also plans on wearing these jeans with the legs pegged. She likes them tons more now than she did before we did this to them.
The first one to go up my children decorated with items their great grandmother made years ago before her passing. This was an eclectic tree but full of so much love and joy for my children. My children had fun going through the kissing balls and putting them on the tree. Kissing balls which is what my grandmother called these ornaments. They were originally meant to hang in doorways with mistletoe on them so those passing underneath would have to kiss.
The second tree is the one my sister in law sets up upstairs. It is a
lovely tree full of gold and red more in keeping with how I like to
decorate trees. It usually takes them a week to set up Christmas but
with three teens supper excited to decorate a tree took only a few
hours.
