We are going for a nautical look in the house. I wanted to do shadow boxes with a beach theme, seashells, and beach photos. I had checked out the blank, doesn't even have glass in them shadow boxes at the craft store--$20+! Pass.
I was perusing e-bay and found one for $4 (including shipping). The picture they had was the size of a post it, when I received the thing, I said "wow." Not "oh boy that's beautiful" wow, but a "time for a makeover, stat" wow.
Here we have an old, beat-up frame with dings galore. Not in a nautical way, but a 'got lost in grandpa's barn because grandma didn't like it thirty years ago' sort of finish. The burlap was dark and coarse, which would have worked if the slot for the glass was more lenient. The wooden net, billy bass, and fishing purse (can't think of any way else to describe it) did not want to stay glued down, they were floating all over the place. The 'piece du resistance' was the fish tank pebbles and cat litter glued to the bottom. Yikes.
The first thing I did was scrape all the litter (both metaphorically and literal) off. I tossed the mini boulders, weeds, and Fifi's toiletry pebbles, but saved the wood cutouts for a later project.
I topped it off with a salt dough star I made and a metal emblem I got on Ebay for a $1 shipping and all (it looked bigger at 2am).
Total amount spent on this project: $5. I used supplies I already had and made this project mine!
I was perusing e-bay and found one for $4 (including shipping). The picture they had was the size of a post it, when I received the thing, I said "wow." Not "oh boy that's beautiful" wow, but a "time for a makeover, stat" wow.
Here we have an old, beat-up frame with dings galore. Not in a nautical way, but a 'got lost in grandpa's barn because grandma didn't like it thirty years ago' sort of finish. The burlap was dark and coarse, which would have worked if the slot for the glass was more lenient. The wooden net, billy bass, and fishing purse (can't think of any way else to describe it) did not want to stay glued down, they were floating all over the place. The 'piece du resistance' was the fish tank pebbles and cat litter glued to the bottom. Yikes.
The first thing I did was scrape all the litter (both metaphorically and literal) off. I tossed the mini boulders, weeds, and Fifi's toiletry pebbles, but saved the wood cutouts for a later project.
Once it was empty, I sanded all the wood inside and out and washed it so the paint would stick.
I lightly painted the frame front and back with one coat of white so I could have a distressed nautical look.
I originally was going to keep the burlap because of the texture, but found that the space where the glass goes is such a tight fit that with paint over the burlap, the glass did not fit. So I scraped the burlap off too.
I used scrapbook paper for the insides and frame, then added my photo.
The ''log'' was a knotty stick I found. I used scrapbooking stickers for beach phrases, ocean animal photos, and embellished the corners with the ribbon.
I topped it off with a salt dough star I made and a metal emblem I got on Ebay for a $1 shipping and all (it looked bigger at 2am).
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Total amount spent on this project: $5. I used supplies I already had and made this project mine!
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