I'm going crazy and posting twice in one day. Whoa.
Anyway, this weekend I was cleaning up my office and found two poster boards. I decided that instead of cleaning that I should make something with these poster boards. So, I was looking around the web for some cardboard art inspiration and found this:
I fell in love with it! After I posted it to my Pinterest board, I got to work to make something of my own.
1. I looked around on the internet for leaf stencils and printed these:
2. Instead of cutting the stencils out from the paper and then tracing them onto the poster board, I jut put the stencil print out on top of the poster board and traced the outline using a ball point pen an pressing sorta hard. The out come was the stencil as an impression on the poster board and then I just cut those out.
3. Here are the poster board stencil cut outs I used:
4. I traced and cut out about nine of each of the stencils and then Mod Podged scrap book paper, paper sacks, and even dictionary pages to the stencils.
5. I laid out the design how I wanted it and then broke out the hot glue gun. I carefully went around hot gluing the pieces to each other so that I wouldn't mess up the design.
6. Once I had all the pieces glued, I flipped the wreath over and glued strips of card board all around the back to really secure the thing:
7. I wanted to hang this thing up, so I stuck a big paper clip to one of the strips before I glued it down and then I hot glued the clip to the card board so it would stay in place. It doesn't look pretty, but I don't care. Nobody is going to see that side anyway!
Here is the finished product on our front door.
I took a close up of a portion of it so you could see the different types of scrap book paper I used.
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