Sunday, May 17, 2009

Numbers never looked so good

Some of you may remember awhile back my posting about a prototype table number I made. I decided to make all the table numbers like this. I had a few of the materials already (glue gun, glue sticks, colored cardstock, acrylic paint) so it ended up costing me ~$32.00 to make the numbers. A little pricier than I originally thought it would cost, but I love the result.

Materials:
15 Photo frames
Wooden Numbers
3 Sheets 12 x 12 Sparkly Paper
2 Acrylic paint
a few Glue sticks
Glue Gun
Butterfly punch
2 sheets 8x 11 colored cardstock(1 pink, 1 turquoise)
Spongy paint brush

I bought 15 silver photo frames from the dollar store.

Take out the glass and the backing plate. Rub your glue stick all over the backing plate and glue Sparkly paper onto the backing plate.

I then placed the glass over the backing plate and put something heavy on it so the paper didn't curl up.

Next, I painted the silver frames with acrylic paint. I had to do two coats to cover the shiny silver material.

While I was waiting for the frames to dry, I painted the wooden numbers in a pretty turquoise paint.


After everything was good and dry, I put the backing plate back into the frame. I then took my glue gun and glued the numbers right onto the backing plate. I got out my butterfly punch and punched some butterfly's out of a sheet of sample cardstock I had bought from paper and more. I glued the butterfly's onto the numbers.


I made all the odd number frames Pink with turquoise numbers and pink butterfly's and all the even table numbers are turquoise with pink numbers and turquoise butterfly's.

Viola. Project completed.

Now I need to figure out what to do with 15 panes of glass I have leftover from this project. I'm sure there is some craft I can make out of them. Any ideas/suggestions?

4 comments:

  1. Theses frames turned our fab...cant wait to see more!

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  2. Where did you find the wooden numbers? I have been trying to hunt some down...

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  3. I got them at my local craft store, AC Moore. They often have coupon for 40% off, so if you have time you can go and get one for super cheap with the coupon, and then go back for the others the same way. Or just gather a bunch of friends and print a bunch of coupons and go together. Hope this helps!

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