Tutorial Tuesday: Decoupage Tray

I know, I'm a huge liar/slacker, and yet AGAIN this tutorial comes to you on a Wednesday!




You will need:
Tray (or other various other flat, smooth surfaced items)
Clear polyurethane (I like MinWax)
Mod Podge (or white school glue)
1 solo cup
1 paint brush
1 piece sand paper
A bunch of images
-magazines
-news papers
-maps
-print outs

Lightly sand the tray (nothing serious, just so the surface is a little scratched up).

In your solo cup, mix 1 part Mod Podge (or your standard kiddie glue) with 2 parts water.

Cover the tray with a generous amount of the ModPodge mix.

Now, arrange your images, and continue to cover with the Mod mix (you want the paper to be wet, it's ok if it's a little soppy, just be careful not to rip your pictures).

Make sure to layer them and not to have them all facing the same direction (if your are going for a more organized look, disregard those instructions) to give it a random, more sporadic vibe.

These are the final products from last nights Crafts & Drafts.

Kyli

Rachel

Allison

Steve

Tutorial Tuesday: Pink Lemonade Pie

Last summer a visiting friend of mine made this most delicious and refreshing, ultra-easy, summer treat, and this weekend I decided I wanted to make myself a pink lemonade pie!!!

Ingredients:

1 pie crust

1 container pink lemonade drink mix

1 container of vanilla ice cream

hot pink food coloring

In a large mixing bowl, combine ice cream (softened), 1 packet/container pink lemonade powder, and 4-6 drops of food coloring.




Give it a good mixing, at this point you'll be able to tell if you need a few more drops of food coloring (I like mine REALLY pink).


Fill the pie crust and pop it back in the freezer. Depending on the quality of the ice cream you used, it takes 20 min to a full hour for the pie to refreeze (i buy the cheep stuff, so it only too about a half our before we got dig in).


Really. It's that easy.

Tutorial Tuesday: Cork boards.

I know I'm a day off, but (provided I have technological cooperation) I'm going to try and do a Tutorial Tuesday.

A few week ago I finished up this project. Recovering the disgusting fake wood cabinets in the kitchen (if you look in the top left corner you can see some of it on the doors above the fridge) with a few coats of chalk board paint and a cork board.


I had a few dozen corks left over so I decided to make a smaller one.



Pick out a board. Something flat and smooth.

This is the back of a flooring sample I snatched from a pile, in my old office building.

Get your little fingers to work slicing those babies in half.

Here I've got a cheapo kitchen cutting board, and one of the gracious boyfriends box cutters from the garage.

WARNING!!!
You will get blisters. Be prepared.

Then, work some hot glue and finagling magic and waaaalaaaa!!!!!!!

A gift for my friends Andy and Briar, who provided the initial donation of wine corks that started the mania.

I know this tutorial leaves much to be desired in the progress and instruction department, so next time, I promise, it'll be much better...............and on a Tuesday.