5 Non-Furniture Ways to Use Milk Paint
We feature lots of gorgeous furniture projects here on our blog, and on our social media feeds. (By the way, we’d love to have you join us on our growing Instagram and Twitter accounts!) While our products look fantastic on furniture projects, there are lots of other places where it shines!
Here are 5 non-furniture ways you can use MMS Milk Paint in your home.
1 - Seasonal Decor
Whatever season or holiday is coming up on the calendar, there are endless possibilities of non-furniture projects you can enjoy using MMS Milk Paint! Here are some suggestions organized by holiday and season:
Christmas | Holiday Season
One of our favorite ways to enjoy MMS Milk Paint during the Christmas holiday season is to make ornaments!
Paper mache, glass, ceramic and raw wood ornaments can easily be sourced from local craft stores in your area. You can also source them online! A quick Google or Amazon search will do the trick nicely!
Our founder, Marian Parsons (aka Miss Mustard Seed), used Bergere and Boxwood to paint these ceramic ornaments. (You can click on the pictures to read her full tutorial.)
Valentine’s Day
We’ve partnered with some truly talented DIY’ers over the years.
Elizabeth of The Country Peony went live on our Facebook page to teach you how to create a heart-shaped garland using salt dough hearts and MMS Milk Paint.
Easter | Spring Holiday Season
This past Spring, we shared an easy Easter egg project you can create using MMS Milk Paint.
Our European Collection has the perfect selection of soft pastels for you to use on projects during this time of year!
4th of July | Patriotic Holidays
One of our fabulous retailers, Laura Hughes of Vintage 61 Storehouse, shared all sorts of clever ways you can use MMS Milk Paint during the dog days of summer! Laura and her team went live on our Facebook page to show you how to create your own vintage-inspired cookout, including some Milk Painted Jenga® blocks and vintage lawn chairs.
Click on the image below to head to our blog post with all of Laura’s tips!
Halloween, Thanksgiving | Fall Season
Milk Painted pumpkins are quick and easy to make. The best part is that you can use any kind of pumpkin you like - big, small, real, paper mache, ceramic, etc.
You can use our Fall/Halloween colors - Outback Petticoat (soon to be known as Tangerine) and Curio - to make traditional orange pumpkins. Click the image below to read a tutorial on that process written by MMSMP Team Member, Jenn Baker.
Don’t limit yourself to orange pumpkins! Whip up your own custom colors. The possibilities are endless with MMS Milk Paint!
Miss Mustard Seed wrote an entire tutorial on how she painted these pale blue pumpkins for her home. Click the image below to check it out.
My Painted Door layered Curio underneath of Tricycle to make these spooky creations.
2 - Wood Carvings and Wall Art
There are quite a few talented wood artists that use our Milk Paint and topcoats on their one-of-a-kind creations. Elizabeth Sherman is an incredible wood carver, and she used our Milk Paint products to adorn her spoons, forks, bowls and the like.
Another wood artist that we admire is Jodi of Crooked Tree Studio. We introduced her to all of you on our blog, and she uses our Milk Paint to make these incredible “woodscapes”.
Photo Credit: Crooked Tree Studio
3 - Signs
Signs are quick and easy projects to create using MMS Milk Paint!
Giovanna of Northrup Avenue used 3 parts Boxwood mixed with 3 parts Ink Blue to create the beautiful sign.
Signs can be created from just about anything. Emma of Effervescence Art used the window of an old door and turned it into a sweet sign.
Monica of Burlap Roses Revivals features this Milk Painted sign in her Instagram feed every so often. It’s gorgeous, isn’t it?
4 - Doors
Have a boring door sitting at home? Give it some personality using MMS Milk Paint!
Here are a few doors that we’ve found to be rather eye-catching:
5 - Dying Fabric
We have found some pretty clever MMS Milk Paint projects that involved dying fabric! One of the first that came to mind were these darling t-shirts created by Ellen Brundage of Ellen J Goods.
You can visit Ellen’s Facebook post to see more examples of these beautifully dyed shirts. (As a side note, she used Iron Orchid Transfers for the embellishments.)
Emily of Penny & Ivy shared a super fun way to use MMS Milk Paint to dye fabric. She created sweet heart-shaped fabric wall art.
Click on our picture below to read how she did it.
Photo Credit: Penny & Ivy
