So I bought this lovely picture of the Mesa Temple... like 6 months ago. I have never been able to find a frame to fit it (11x17)... And I had this blank canvas laying around.... then I got an idea! I spray painted the canvas black, put some mod podge in the center after it had dried, and flattened my picture in the center! (I did not mod podge over the picture as I like the finish of the actual picture, and I didn't feel it was neccesary)
A Much cheaper version would be to use something other than canvas, but I had nothing else to do with mine :) I would suggest wood, a shoe box lid, or you could build your own "canvas" by nailing four pieces of wood together and stretching fabric over them, then nailing in the back! this would allow you to find a fabric with a fun pattern rather than spray painting!
A place full of repurposing, sewing, crafts, cooking, and whatever other shenanigans I come up with! Diy!
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
sprucing up a plain old garbage can (my first mod podge project!)
So I was super excited to use mod podge, and now I love it! I had this cheapo white garbage can in my guest bathroom, and the rest of it looks so nice, I just had to do somehting about the garbage can, as I am too cheap to go out and buy a nice one! If you chose to do this, I would suggest a straight flat edge garbage can as mine curved, which made it harder but still possible
so I cut out the right sizes I needed in scrapbook paper, and mod podged the garbage can. then put my paper on, and mod podged over the top, trying to smooth out all wrinkles and bumps, but I didnt 100% succeed....
this was my first time using mod podge and I did not realize how quickly that stuff dries!!! So it isnt perfect... but I still think its cuter! and you cant really see all the mistakes unless your looking close... and I dont think anyone will be inspecting my garbage can while using the bathroom... I hope!
sprucing up a picture frame
so recently I bought this picture frame from Walmart.... (please bear with my pictures, I am waiting on some new ones, but I needed to put SOMETHING in those blank spaces so I could hang it up!)
cute, but I am sure like a million other people have this exact same one.... so I spruced mine up a little bit!!!
I like it much better! More unique! So how did I do it??? It was super easy! I turned the frame upside down and traced the lettering onto scrapbook paper (I did each letter indiviually as I wanted each letter from different paper) Then I put some mod podge on the frame, and lined up my paper! then I put more mod podge over the top to finish it off!!!
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