Crackle Frame

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x-posted, sorry.
I was walking through the bead aisle at work (Michaels) one day (danger danger!) and saw some cool metal looking letter beads. I pondered what I could do with them and this project was born.
This project was on hiatus for awhile because I bought a pack of a hundred letter beads and there were no "R"s inside! I had to wait for us to restock and then buy a new pack just for one "R".
Anyway It's a frame for my boyfriend that I bought on clearance for 1.75 and then niftied up.
It was just varnished wood originally so I sanded it, primed it, painted it gold, crackled it, and rubbed brown into the cracks, applied a sealer and glued on the letter beads.
He'll get it as soon as I find a cool enough picture of us to go inside.

I have no webcam so I had to scan it, the scanner gave it some funky shadowy parts but other than that it pretty much looks like that.