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PROJECTS
Flower Power Photo Frame
Designed By: Annabelle Keller, SCD, CPD
Typical Project Completion Time: 1-2 hours
(does not include drying time)
| MATERIALS NEEDED: |
STYROFOAM* Brand Products:
Sheet, 12" x 36" x 1/2"
Ball, 2"
Other Materials:
Clay pot, 2"
Wooden dowel, 1/8" x 8"
Craft foam, one green
Acrylic craft paint: bright red, Christmas green, blue-green
Dimensional paint, yellow
Varnish, matte finish
Cardstock, 2-1/2" square, red
Cardboard, 2" square
Metal cookie cutters: 3-1/4" flower; 1-1/2" round
Pencil
Scissors
Ruler
Paintbrush, flat
Natural sponge
Thick white craft glue or low temperature glue gun and glue sticks
Glue stick |
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| INSTRUCTIONS: |
| 1. Cut a 1-5/8" diameter circle from 2" cardboard square. Select photo with a 1-1/2" diameter live area (if you would like to preserve the original photo, make a color photocopy). Center cardboard circle over live area on photo and trace around edge; cut out photo. Center and glue photo to cardstock; cut out around photo, adding 1/8" all around edge. |
| 2. Firmly press flower cookie cutter into foam. Gently remove foam flower from cookie cutter; sand any rough edges with a scrap of foam. Cut out center of flower with 1-1/2" round cutter. |
| 3. Paint flower bright red and wooden dowel Christmas green. When dry, decorate flower with dimensional paint. Sponge paint pot blue-green; when dry, apply varnish. |
| 4. Glue photo and wooden dowel to back of flower. |
| 5. Glue foam ball in flower pot; if foam ball does not fit, roll on tabletop to reduce size. Insert dowel rod in ball. Glue moss over ball. |
| 6. Using pattern, cut two leaves from foam sheet. Glue to stem. |
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