My sister L is an amazing human being. I fully believe that cartoon birds braid her hair in the morning, she is an always honest support system and there is something about her that is just bright and awesome. I wanted to get her something this Christmas that she would really like, but I didn't have a huge budget to work with. I found a cool shop on etsy, (here) that prints off beautiful images onto pages of old dictionaries. There was a gorgeous one of a peacock that fit L's style so well I just could resist. It was only 4.00 and I figured I could mat it and put it in a pretty frame for a total under 15$ but of course the closer Christmas got the busier I was, I couldn't seem to find a mat or frame that fit the style and feeling of the print. (I don't have that great of a selection around her, hobby lobby and walmart -bleh) so Christmas came and went and the beautiful print sat where it was.
When I flew to see my family for our belated holidays I brought the print with me thinking I could get it done there, luckily it turned out. While staying in my parents house I was going through things I wanted to bring back with me, I stumbled on crafting gold! In my old piano bench I found about a million old books of sheet music. No one had looked at them in years and one in particular had the cover missing and was filled with progressive piano pieces that I had never liked and never bothered to learn. Having a crippling pintrest addiction I knew just what to do.
following along at home you will need:
an object to be covered (naked hat box at a craft store for 3$)
vintage paper (that you are ok with ripping up)
center piece (i got mine at ....)
modge podge
To start I ripped some of the pages out of my music book and started going to town, shedding them into pieces I could easily wrap around my naked hatbox. I particularly liked the ones with hand pencil notations for the last person who had owned the piano.
After I had a nice little pile of music note scraps ready I laid out the center piece on the lid and used massive amounts of modge podeg to put it in place, I wanted this to be a fairly hardy piece. I put a layer underneath and a layer on top.
From there you just arrange your pieces to cover your hatbox, if you have some trashy television to watch you can multitask! (I usually watch project runway while I am crafting)
You can make a patterns with colors of words or just go random like I did
Once you have it all in place I recommend trimming the edges and then applying one last thick layer of modge podge on to be a sealant.
I adore how it turned out. It was a project for under 10$ and took less than an hour!
And my sister loved it!
