I have a VERY boring front door. I want to paint it navy blue, but have not gotten around to it. My quick fix was to add something on the door. Its not fully finished, but for now it will do.
I really like wreathes, but don't like the "attempt to look real" wreathes. I have an abundance of grape vines in the back yard and I am holding off making wreathes until I can prune them. So for now I made an "L" for the front door (L for our last name).
Materials:
Jute/Hemp or some sort of textured string, thicker works better
hot glue
wooden letter
scissors
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| Take your letter and admire how boring it is right now... |
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| Since there is some thickness to the letter I glued strips of the hemp on the top part. I alternated the strips so when I started on the wrapping it wouldn't be uneven on one side. |
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| When you start to wrap start as close as possible to the top.cover the ends of the top strips. At the beginning you will want to use more glue, just so you know that it is secure. |
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| this is the boring part just wrapping and gluing. The part you need to pay attention to is the "slopey" part of the letter. Use lots of glue when doing this (not so much that is shows). |
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| continue with the strips on any part that you can't wrap evenly. |
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| (another picture with the "strips") |
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| Here is mine completely done. I went over it twice (besides the part that needed the strips). I did this because it just looked too thin. |
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| There it is hanging up! It will look much better against a navy blue door, don't you think? |
This craft cost me under $10, and it took me less than 30 minutes. I have added some fabric flowers on the lower left side. Although Hubby says the flowers were too girly....
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