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Felt art animals

Posted on November 23, 2013 by spenkunas

After making the animal frames a few posts ago, I looked at these small wood pieces that I have and wondered if I could do something similar following the animal theme. I decided to investigate making felt animals. By using the scrap wood as the backdrop and frame combined, I thought it could be interesting to play around with different whimsical animals for the centerpiece. It was fun designing the different animal looks and playing with felt and embroidery floss colors. They can be displayed individually or used in a cluster for a cute art piece in a children’s room. I have completed 3 so far and have a few more up my sleeve- maybe a giraffe, or an owl, or a whale……

sketching out ideas and the wood backer blocks

selecting the color palette for the octopus

sewing and stuffing the octopus

octopus with details added and ready to mount onto the wood

Completed octopus

Completed hippo

Completed monkey

Decorative Letters

Posted on November 13, 2013 by spenkunas

While exploring Pinterest, I came across a lot of different ideas for making decorative letters . Michael’s Crafts has wooden finished and unfinished versions for a few dollars, so I picked up some letters to try my hand at making my own. I decided to wrap them in variegated yarn and decorate with felt and buttons.

The original inspiration pins

Letter prep with materials

First, I covered the exposed ends of the letter “C” and then began the wrap. With “O”, wrapping presented its own challenges- pushing the yarn length through the tiny center opening

The completed yarn wrapped letters

After adding the decorative buttons and felt

The completed letters “C” and “O” – the decorative bow acts as the hanger

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Adding panache to your walls (and cheaply)

Posted on September 15, 2013 by spenkunas

Think you can’t add a dash of panache to your walls without spending a lot of money? This project combines the wallpaper samples that I acquired at SCRAP along with $1 wood shapes and a few beads from Michaels Crafts. I think it is an easy way to add some color and texture to any wall. You can use any number, size, and combination of wood shapes to match the size of the space you are decorating. The possibilities are endless!

Selecting the fabrics

Gluing fabric direct to the wood shapes using Tacky Glue

my little helper (Clyde)

Use hot glue to set felt backer

Trying out the center shape combinations

The final result

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SCRAP- inspired project – Take 2

Posted on September 9, 2013 by spenkunas

In the second SCRAP-inspired project, I used a faux zebra-wood cabinet door and combined it with decorator fabric and an additional mini frame at the center. I created a simple shape embellished with beads and sequins and placed it at the center of the mini frame. You could easily place a photo in the center for a dramatic wall-mounted frame.

the start

faux leather backer

adding the mini frame at the center

beading the center piece

sketching up some inspiration

the final result

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SCRAP-inspired project – Take 1

Posted on September 9, 2013 by spenkunas

In Portland, we have a wonderful resource called SCRAP Creative Reuse Center. They accept donations of a wide variety of things and encourage the community to use them in creative ways. Yesterday I took a trip there with visions of potential projects in my head. I made a beeline to the home decorator sample fabric books and found two with lots of beautiful patterns and colors. Next, off to the scrap wood. I found 2 sample cabinet doors that you typically find in home decorating stores. I thought they would be a wonderful backdrop for some hanging wall art. After paying $7 for my finds, I was off to get started on my projects. Here is the first of two projects.

the supplies

after cutting the decor fabric to size, I started the beading

beading is complete

Yarn creates a border to cover the fabric edges

A final touch of beading on the yarn border and it’s done!

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Wall Art

Posted on August 19, 2013 by spenkunas

As someone who enjoys scouring magazines and pulling out inspirational things, I am totally addicted to Pinterest. It is my virtual collage of inspiration. I regularly pin things that I’m sure some day I’ll actually make. After several months of pinning, I realized that other than the Good Thoughts Jar, I hadn’t worked on any projects. I woke up last weekend and decided that I was going to start working on projects, not just dream about doing them. My first project was inspired by a pin using wooden embroidery hoops and stretched fabric.

I’m currently living in an apartment with the standard beige colored walls. I have no headboard on my bed because the space is quite small. I decided to take inspiration from this pin and make a “Virtual Headboard” out of the fabric and hoops. Being the detailed oriented person that I am, I also needed to embellish them – plain old fabric just wouldn’t do. I took the color inspiration from my comforter and ran with it from there. I painted the hoops a chocolate brown to match my decor and used fabric, felt, metal brads, ric-rac, ribbon, and beads. Voila! The finished results along with detailed views. It makes me happy every time I walk through the bedroom.