Nautical wood art with a painted scallop design – made with Shape Tape and Americana Chalky Finish paint.
Hey crafty friends! It’s been two weeks since our beach vacation to Santa Cruz and I’m already anxious to go back. I can’t wait to chase the waves with the kids and collect seashells in the early morning. That is one of my favorite memories from my childhood. Whenever my mother took us to the ocean we would wake up early to walk the shore before the crowds came in. With a jar in hand we collected every seashell we could find. My sisters and I then took them home to clean and craft with the shells. We would glue them to frames, jewelry boxes, and even add sand dollars to our scrapbooks. All of these memories inspired me to make a nautical wood sign with painted scalloped “waves” using FrogTape’s Shape Tape.
This was my first tim and I’m thrilled with the results. The tape is very user-friendly and allows you to create an assortment of designs. The polymer in the tape reacts with the water in the paint to create a gel micor-barrier and seals the edge. This allows you to create crisp, clean lines without worrying about the paint bleeding through.
Supplies:
FrogTape Shape Tape Scallop
8×10 piece of wood
Americana Chalky Finish paint in Everlasting & Serene
Foam brush
Seashell
rope
hot glue
Step one: I used a foam brush to apply one coat of chalky finish paint in Everlasting. The instructions recommend waiting 3 days before applying tape to the paint. I allowed mine to dry overnight and didn’t have an issue but I also used only a thin coat of paint. 
Step two: apply tape and use your second color of paint. Step three: remove tape while the paint is wet. Allow to dry for a few hours before handling.
Step four: glue seashell to the center and rope around the border.
Love this art piece! I’m not sure yet what I’d make, but oh I’d do something with it. That shape tape is awesome!
I would love to use this pattern to make wooden picture frames. Thanks for the awesome giveaway :)
Renee
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I love this! I would use this frog tape to help paint a wall in my sons’ playroom. This would be perfect!!
I would make some letter on canvas with the frog tape for the nursery. I would used the wavey for a cool effect with the letters.
This would be a great gift for my shore-loving in-laws! If I win, I’ll probably make one of these. :) We have thousands of shells my grandma collected, so we’re well-stocked.
I would use Frog Tape to decorate storage boxes in my sewing room. Those boxes could use some jazzing up!
Monogram art would be fun!
I would use it to decorate a wooden storage trunk, that’s used for my linens.
I would love to do a pallet wall art with the frog tape wave design. Maybe a nautical design some what like yours? Hope to win. Thanks for the opportunity.
I have a piece of furniture that I want to paint and using FrogTape shape tape to make a design would be fun. :D
Each of the twins would get a different patterned wall, then a racecar on one wall and a train on the other.
Beautiful!
I would love to paint some curtain panels to make them more interesting
Stopping by from Link Party Palooza. I love the scallop tape, so cute!
Your nautical wall art turned.out so beautiful and serene! I would use the frog shape tape to paint some decorative boxes for my new console table. I can also see myself using it in decorating my kids bathroom and bedrooms! Thanks for sharing about this product!!
I want to use this to pain my toddler’s room!
We just got back from Sanibel Island, and I just bought some wooden shadow boxes to decorate and paint. This would be super cute to try on the wood frame. Love the colors you chose!
I would love to make some sort of picture frame with it that I could hang in my living room with a picture of my family! That would be amazing!
This is so awesome! I love the whole idea behind it. So simple, but beautiful!
I would love to make some cards, Great card, I love the beach theme right now!!!! TFS