Toilet Paper Art

Toilet Paper Flowers

Materials:

Shadow Box

Scrapbook Paper

Toilet Paper/Paper Towel Rolls 

Spray Paint 

Recycle your toilet paper rolls and turn them into something beautiful. 

First, cut the rolls up. However thick or thin you want them is your choice. Then slightly bend them to look like a flower petal. depending on the size of your shadow box will determine how many you want to make. 

I put a piece of silver sparkly scrapbook paper in the frame to look nicer as a background. I also put some swirls inbetween in the flowers. Since the rolls are just paper they can be glued together with Elmers. 

Some people leave their projects brown but if you do that it really just looks like TP rolls still. I decided to spray paint mine black and they looked way better and classier. I also just put a couple dots of glue on the back to attach to the background paper. Then sealed up the frame and that's it. You can't even tell this is a recycled project. It looks really pretty on the wall. 

Happy Holidays

Reindeer Cookies 

This was a fun delicious treat to make and eat! Basically just make chocolate chip cookies and press on some MnMs for the eyes and nose when they come out of the oven. You do have to be careful when putting in the pretzels because if you put them in too early the hot cookie will melt the chocolate on them and they will start to fall over. Once everything has cooled they will stick in fine. Don't these look so cute?? 

Happy Haloween

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Peace Sign String Art

Peace 

This is my second string art project. I did it the same way as the first one but this time I also made a boarder of nails around the edges of the wood. 

This project was fun because of the different color string. I used one color at a time and went back and forth every 4th nail. I started from the top and went to the bottom. Then I used the same process but went left to right. 

love and peace. 

Cali String Art

California

Materials: 

Wood board 

Small nails 

Hammer

Embroidery thread 

This is one of my favorite pieces. String Art was popular in the 70s but I brought it back! 

This was a pretty simple project but pretty time consuming. I bought just a rectangular wood board at Michaels and the smallest shortest nails I could find at Home Depot. 

Since I can't draw I printed out an outline of California that fit perfectly on the wood. I then made little dots 1cm apart all around the paper. Then where ever there was a dot I hammered in a nail. That's what took the longest time.

When all the nails were in the shape of Cali you can just easily rip off the template. I first wanted to do the heart where Los Angeles would be on the map but it was too close to the edge and it looked much nicer in the middle.

When I started to weave the string I only used half the thickness of the embroidery thread. I chose a spot and made a little knot then I just kept going back and forth from the heart to the Cali part. When I reached the end I just made another little knot and that was that!

When finished it really looks like a nice one of a kind project. 

My Furry Baby

Charlie 

Disclamer: I did not draw this! :(

Even though I did not draw this I wanted to add it to my blog. My best friend actually drew this picture of my baby Charlie for me as a gift. The actual picture is on the left and the drawing is on the right.

I will admit that I am creative but in no way am I an artist. I can hardly draw stick people! I am so jealous of people with talent like this! The drawing is almost exact, it's crazy.

Any of you out there if you can draw like this...I hate you!

:)

Paint Chip Art

Lots Of Love

This is a really cool piece I made with paint chips. It was a very cheap project and it looks so nice hanging on the wall. I went to Michaels and of course using a coupon bought a big shadow box. I actually wanted one even bigger than this but this was the biggest one I could find.

Then I had fun and went to Home Depot. Well actually first I printed out a heart shape that I liked so I made sure I got big enough paint chips. I knew I wanted to make my project rainbow colored so I just grabbed paint chips in the colors I wanted and if you can tell from the picture the colors are actually all different and go from dark to light. I had a row of pink too but I didn't have room for them but thats ok.

Paint chips are free and they have a billion of them at Home Depot so no one cares if you take a few.

When I got home I traced my template onto the paint chips with a silver sharpie. When I cut the hearts out the silver shows on the edges a little bit which actually looks nice because it has a little bit of a shimmer in the light.

To look like they are 3D all you have to do is fold the hearts in half and when glueing just put glue on that folded part. They will stick out when they are dry and give a neat illusion.

Then just let it dry, close up the frame, hang it up and there ya go, you just made your house even more beautiful!

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