Finished the crown. I printed out tiny versions of the White Tree of Gondor and practiced painting over the print with dimensional gold paint. Had to trim a lot of branches from the tree so the details didn’t blur together with paint (what kind of sacrilege is that, to lop off parts of the White Tree?!? ;-). When I got one that I liked, I cut it out and decoupaged the painted tree onto the center front of the crown.<\/p>\n
Then I used the dimensional paint to make a wide chain design on the sides of the crown. Over all this, I painted a couple coats of old gold (same paint I used on the lace trim of the gown). The dimensional paint showed up just enough to evoke the look of molded metal. And all for literally pennies, because I already had the materials, except for the paint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Finished the crown. I printed out tiny versions of the White Tree of Gondor and practiced painting over the print with dimensional gold paint. Had to trim a lot of branches from the tree so the details didn’t blur together with paint (what kind of sacrilege is that, to lop off parts of the White<\/p>\n