Quick fix craft

I have an old random tray that didn't really add much to the decor of our apartment. Actually, it was sitting in my closet for awhile gathering dust.

So... I decided to give it a little face lift.

I took some scrapbook paper that I had left over, a stencil, and some paint, and gave my dirty old tray a little purpose.

I matched the patterns on my 2 pieces of scrapbook paper. Then traced my tray and cut out my rectangle of paper.

Then I used a stencil and some paint to add a little dimension.

Glue the paper to the tray. I used decoupage glue and coated the top as well.

If you plan on putting drinks on this tray you'll need to use a lacquer on top to seal it.

And there you have your 15 minute quick fix!

Yarn Pom "Flowers"

Super easy and FREE decoration for fall.

Cost: FREE (unless you need to buy yarn..get the cheap kind)

Difficulty level: Ridiculously easy

You need:

yarn

sticks

scissors

Step One: 

Choose a color of yarn and wrap it LOOSELY around your hand about 100 times.

Step Two:

Slip the yarn off your hands, and tie it across the middle with another piece of yarn to make a ball.

Step Three:

Cut the loops open with your scissors.

Final Step:

Put the sticks through the middle of the yarn balls, and put in a vase! 

Note to self:: Maybe don't use grey yarn... it looks like I've been dusting with it. Ooops...

Film Negavite Lamp

Saw an amazing photo of this on Pinterest and just had to do it! There was no tutorial, so I totally winged it. You're welcome...because now you have directions!

Difficulty level: easy-ish

Cost: $15 including the lamp

You will need:
A glass lamp. This one was $8 at Ikea. (Free for me, I've had it forever)
Old film negaitves. Try to use black and white; color film is brown and not as nice. * I used 12*
Mod Podge and a sponge brush

Step One:

Clean and dry your lamp, and choose your negatives. Mine are from my and Katie's high school photo journalism class!

Step Two:
Apply a layer of Mod Podge ( 1 inch wide) to 2 sides of the lamp. You will wrap the strips one at a time around the corners. ** This was my first time ever using Mod Podge!**

Keep doing this until half of your lamp is covered.

Let the glue dry before flipping the lamp on the other side. Then, keep on gluing!

Let all of that dry too. ** Some of the film had a hard time staying down, so I used a little hot gule to tack it.

Last Step:

Plug it in and enjoy, or give it as a gift. This would be cool if you had old vacation or wedding negatives too. 

 

Pretty sweet look! And I'm proud of my first Mod Podge creation.

                

Wine Cork Cork Board

what you'll need: wine corks- and lots of them, something to glue your wine corks to-I used cork tiles, hot glue

cost: inluding all the wine, lots and lots and lots. Not including the wine $10.
difficulty level: easy


step one: Drink a lot of wine. Not all at once, please. I've been collecting these for a very long time with the help of everyone I know including Kayleigh's mom who worked at a wine shop for awhile. I still have a whole lot let too :)


step two: lay all your corks out so you can make sure you like your pattern. For those of you thinking "Really Katie? You're glueing corks to cork board?" I say "Yea man, I'm glueing corks to cork tiles because they are super cheap. So....yea." You can also use a picture frame but I like these because you can cut them if you want and they are light and easy to hang. I'll be using those sticky scoth things to hang mine up so I don't have to use nails.

step three: Hot glue your corks down


repeat!!!

Get creative with it. Next I'm going to do a circle cork board next and then another square so I can hang them all together-pictures for that will come as soon as I go get more hot glue sticks.