Fabric Bulletin Board
Great for yourself, or as a gift. Vision board, to-do list, photo wall....See mine below and the backside of it, as well as two others I made for friends. For the base you can use plain cardboard, a canvas, an existing cork bulletin board, or backing board for framing artwork. Even a piece of plywood. Re-purpose something around the house. If you have a frame lying around, you can use it to frame the backing board / cardboard, or else hang it with a ribbon if it's not too heavy. Canvas, existing cork board, plywood will already be easy to mount.
Check out these YouTube videos for how. Video 1, Video 2, Video 3, Video 4. Materials are listed therein.
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Substitutions: You don't need quilt batting, but if you want the puffy look, instead of quilt batting you could recycle a fleece or fold over a flannel sheet you're getting rid of a few times.
NOTE: If you're using cardboard or backing board and some kind of batting AND buttons - you will need to add a piece of ribbon or material on the back to help the button hold and not pull back through the board. Lesson learned the hard way. That's why you can see the back of mine above left. Also I made mine too big and heavy so I can't hang it without a frame. Think about how you want to hang it before you begin.
NOTE: If you're using cardboard or backing board and some kind of batting AND buttons - you will need to add a piece of ribbon or material on the back to help the button hold and not pull back through the board. Lesson learned the hard way. That's why you can see the back of mine above left. Also I made mine too big and heavy so I can't hang it without a frame. Think about how you want to hang it before you begin.
Christmas Ornament Wreath
Make this using left-over ornaments, or old ones, or ones you can get for cheap at Walmart or Dollarama, or even a variety of other objects that may work, like Lego for example. You just need a lot of them. If you're using a bunch of things from home, the easiest base would be a metal clothes hanger, but you may have a wreath form like below, or a metal form if you took apart your cedar wreath.
NOTE: So above I used a wreath form from Michaels that was mint green, I just painted it black. Then you remove all the ornament toggles from each ornament for easier gluing. If you're using the hanger method, make sure you glue the little toggle (the thing with prongs and a cap that the hook goes on) to the ornament itself, so as you string the ornaments on the hanger and it weighs down they don't fall off. You don't need the hooks.