Welcome to the
Homestead Blog Hop! If you have arrived from
Karen's post over at Club Scrap then you are in the right spot. If not, please head back over to check out the complete list of participating bloggers. You wouldn't want to miss out on all the fantastic paper crafted inspiration along the way.
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| Click HERE to see a photo that inspired this project. |
Get your pizza boxes and let's get crafting!
1. Cut eighteen windmill blades from 4x12" pizza boxes strips.
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Combine 3 parts yellow ochre and 1 part light green acrylic paint to match the Homestead green paper and paint three wooden skewers (from the grocery store).
3. Mark and poke holes into each blade.
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| Make first hole with paper piercing tool. |
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| Widen the hole with the tip of a pencil. |
4. Cover each blade with
Homestead green paper and distress the edges with Earth hybrid ink.
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| Trace the shape of the blade onto a 4x12" strip of green paper and trim. |
5. Create a circular frame out of small white wire-coated coat hanger. Thread blade pieces onto the formed frame. Hot glue ends of coat hanger together to secure.
6. Hot glue each blade into place on back of the windmill.
7. Measure and trim painted skewers to fit onto the frame in a spoke fashion. Punch a 1" circle out of green paper and back with pizza box circle of the same size. Spokes will insert into the corrugated sides of the circle hub. Secure ends with hot glue into hub and onto windmill frame.
8. Create a faux barn board wall with more pizza boxes cut into random 4" wide pieces.
9. Cover each piece with
Homestead brick paper of the same dimensions and attach with Club Scrap®
Book Binding Glue.
10. Distress edges using a paper piercing, distress tool (both from Tonic) and Earth Hybrid Ink.
11. Pierce holes in barn boards and insert brads to create faux nail heads.
12. Cut pieces of pizza box from two sides and top of box. Attach barn boards using book binding glue to form the base.
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| Back of wall hanging. |
13. Print out windmill quote from the
Homestead Digital Kit created in iScrapbook application onto matte photo paper.
14. Trim out quote and distress edges with tool and ink.
15. Add embellishments to the windmill and quote using die cuts and the wooden tag from the
Homestead collection.
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| Attach metal medallion distressed with red acrylic paint (to match the barn boards) onto hub of windmill. |
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| Wooden distressed tag, wax linen threads and grommet. |
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| Green, Brick, Pumpkin, and scraps of hybrid quote print out die cuts. |
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| Sizzix decorative strip die |
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| Ink and curl edges of leaves and wheat die cuts. Layout the pieces in a pleasing design before permanently adhering to wall hanging. |
16. Attach to wall hanging to complete the project.
I really hope you enjoyed the project as much as I enjoyed making it.
Enjoy the rest of the Hop and the next stop is
Roni's Inkstains Blog!
