Inform your story with this distinctive scrap wooden artwork! Use your favourite graphics from locations you’ve visited or lived. Very straightforward to make!
Abilities Required: Intermediate. You’ll doubtlessly be slicing wooden to suit a backer board, so you need to have some expertise with instruments. You also needs to have expertise with Mod Podge so you possibly can connect to wooden items with out wrinkles.
For higher or worse, producing the coasters, HOME indicators, and different decor objects for my enterprise Cheltenham Highway creates lots of scrap wooden. I do my greatest to make use of each piece however generally the random bits pile up.
Whereas perusing a Pottery Barn catalog the opposite day I noticed this piece of wall artwork:
and being me, slightly than pondering “I can buy that!” I completely thought, “I ought to make that with all of the scrap wooden!”
I let the concept bounce round in my mind (there’s area) and it form of morphed into making a chunk of dimensional wooden artwork that displays the locations I’d referred to as dwelling over time – New York, Ohio, California, and many others.
Chances are you’ll be pondering, “that’s good for you David, however I don’t have piles of wooden scraps mendacity round.” However I guarantee you, a fast journey to Dwelling Depot and their leftover lumber pile would give you all of the items for this scrap wooden craft venture for only a few bucks.
I began off with a backer board that measured 26″ x 10″, then simply performed round with random items of wooden till I discovered an association that appealed. Here’s what I ended up with:
Collect These Provides
- Backer board measurement of your selection (mine is 26″ x 10″)
- Random bits of plywood of varied shapes
- Smaller scrap wooden items to make use of as risers
- 1″ sq. dowels: two measuring 28″ lengthy and two measuring 10″ lengthy (for the body)
- Graphics
- Screws
- White paint
- Mod Podge!
- Wooden glue
Instruments Used
- Electrical drill
- Electrical sander (sandpaper and elbow grease would even be wonderful)
- Noticed (I needed to trim a few the items of wooden for the framing dowels)
- Sharp craft knife
- Paintbrushes
Get the printable methods to for this distinctive venture beneath:
Wooden Scrap Artwork
Discover ways to make scrap wooden wall artwork the straightforward means! Commemorate along with your favourite photos.
Yield: 1 piece
Price: $10
- Wooden backer board 26″ x 10″
- Plywood random scraps
- Scrap items of wooden for risers
- 4 1″ sq. dowels 2 (28″) and a couple of (10″)
- Graphics of your selection
- Wooden screws
- Craft paint white
- Mod Podge
- Wooden glue
Reduce the backer board to measurement, in addition to the scrap wooden items to precisely match the board. Organize to verify the items match.
- Print out graphics to suit each bit of scrap wooden. My graphics are simply previous postcards, maps and even a fast web obtain of the poster from my favourite film. Trim to suit.
Decoupage the graphics onto the wooden blocks, one after the other. Add Mod Podge to the wooden, clean down the paper on high, and let dry for 15 – 20 minutes. Then apply a high coat and let dry. Repeat and let dry utterly.
Misery edges of the blocks with a sander, gently.
Reassemble the design on the backer board. Go away flat or place wooden items as risers below some items for curiosity.
Use wooden glue to connect all items, together with the risers, to the backer. Let dry in a single day.
For the body, I made a decision that I needed a fundamental, rustic look. You’ll create easy butt joints. Seize the sq. dowel rods and mark the place the pilot holes ought to go on the finish of every piece.
Drill the pilot holes (these will stop the dowel from splitting whereas screwing. Then connect the dowel items to the body utilizing the wooden screws.
Paint the body with white paint and let dry earlier than hanging or displaying.
- I used plywood as a result of that’s what I had available. Something sturdy would work for the graphics, even mat board or foam core.
- This could be cool to do for a kid – to indicate their life. You might use photographs, report playing cards, college tasks/drawings, favourite guide covers (all laser copies after all). It might even be very significant Father’s Day reward.
- I left the sides of my graphic panels unpainted. They may look good painted black – simply to emphasise the dimensionality a bit extra.
- For those who don’t need to take care of as a lot sawing of wooden, you would design the items to overlap.
- Ideally you possibly can print the graphics on a laserjet printer. However if you happen to solely have inkjet, print them out and spray each side with a transparent acrylic sealer or hairspray. Let dry in a single day earlier than decoupaging.
When you have any questions on this scrap wooden artwork, depart me a remark! I’d additionally love so that you can try the next tasks:
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