Seeing as this is going to hang in my dining room that has an Italian feel to it, I headed to The Graphics Fairy on an image hunt. She has an amazing amount of vintage, copyright free images – Italian, French, historical, you name it, she has it. You can get lost there for a whole day.
I settled on the grape image above. It is simple and elegant. I printed my image on a Square1 Masterpiece adhesive fabric sheet. I did this because the old glass is pretty cloudy and riddled with chips. After printing my image I simple stuck it to the top of the glass. It came out even better than I imagined because the fabric absorbs ink very well and has soft feel to it.
I tell you these pictures do not do this justice. I was a little worried about the image I picked. I mean how good can just grapes look? Well, they look good! You can’t tell by my cruddy photography skills but it has a slight browning around the edges. Makes it look real vintage. Don’t know why my camera didn’t pick it up. Stupid flash!
I used the best quality and premium photo paper settings for my printer. I wanted to really saturate the sheet. It took about 15 minutes to dry and the colors came out fabulous. So deep and rich! I can’t tell you how happy I am with how this came out. It looks like a purchased canvas painting.
The wall I have it hanging on in this picture is not it’s final resting place. I just had better indoor light here. The wall where it now hangs is more of a deep wine color, looks much better there, let me tell you! I really need to invest in an external flash or better lighting so indoor pictures come out better. My craft is killing my pocket book. ^__^
This looks great! I do love that frame. And the grapes look perfect.
‘Sanke you very much! Thanks for coming by my little spot on the web Therese!