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Materials: 1 small rectangular
chip wood basket; 1 can of quick drying dark green spray paint; 1 yard of
7/8 inch wide gold fabric ribbon; 32 foam peel and stick white snow flakes
in assorted sizes (Or you can use a snow flake template and foam sheets to
make your own); 2 medium size red velvet holiday bows. Total cost of
materials = $10.00
(Don't forget that you'll likely have
materials leftover that you can use on future craft projects, which
ultimately would put your supply costs per craft project at less than
$10.)
Tools: Newspaper, paper paint spray mask, scissors and glue
suitable for adhering fabric to wood.
Instructions:
Step 1: Dust the basket. Make sure it is dry. Then in an open
ventilated space such as outside, spread out some newspapers, put on your
paint mask and spray the entire basket with dark green spray paint. You
may want to spray the outside bottom first, let it dry and then turn it
over to do the remainder. Follow the directions on the spray paint can
which suggest using a sweeping motion. Apply as many coats as you like.
With quick drying spray paint, each coat dries in less than 15 minutes.
One coat of green spray paint was applied to this basket along with spot
touch up on a few areas that lacked total coverage. No primer coat was
used.
Step 2: Measure the entire rim of your basket and cut your fabric
ribbon length to this size. Then glue it to the outside of the rim doing
just an inch at a time. Start and end near the handle (or handles if you
prefer to glue the ribbon in two separate halves) where part of the red
bow will cover this section. (If the width of the ribbon, which starts at
the top of the rim on this basket, is too wide for your taste, you can cut
it with scissors.) I used ultra clear drying paper craft glue to glue the
ribbon to the rim. It adhered and dried slow on the wood, allowing
adequate time for smearing it around with the nozzle tip so that the glue
lay flat under the ribbon (versus clumps which would have showed).
(Experiment with your glue in an inconspicuous place on the basket.) Press
the ribbon in a smooth motion into the glue placed on the basket rim and
adjust the ribbon to where you want it to lay. Allow the glue to dry
before moving on to the next step.
Step 3: Adhere the snowflake
foam shapes across the solid wood areas of all sides of the basket. (These
were applied in two horizontal rows with large snowflakes on the bottom
row and smaller snowflakes on the top row.)
Step 4: Attach a red holiday bow to the bottom outside of the
handle on each side, ensuring that it covers the fabric ribbon start and
stop points if they're visible. (These bows have gold wire garland
attached but if yours don't, use green floral wire, glue and/or green or
gold pipe cleaners cut to an appropriate size to fasten the bows.)
Step 5: Fill the basket with your favorite holiday CD's.
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