I have had so many projects that I have wanted to get done for a long time, but just did not have the time to complete them, let alone even GET to them. So this recent staycation that Fer and I have been on has afforded me a good amount of time to get to a lot of things and here is one of them.
I have been collecting wine corks for a long time and for the most part just store them in two large glass cookie jars, but have been wanting to make something with them for awhile (which is why I collect so many.) I made a coaster a few months back and I do plan to make more of those but this time I used a good amount of the corks up on these "cork" boards for our kitchen.
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I have had these pictures for quite a while and they have served their purpose but now I found a new purpose for them. They are a good size and as you'll see below the detail on the edge of the frame lends itself to a classy bulletin board, right. :)
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So armed with some black acrylic paint and tons of corks I went to work. I thought it would be a good idea to paint over the whole picture in black in case any of it showed thru the corks it would be more uniform that way.
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Here they are all covered.
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Then I started to arrange the corks, not as quick and easy as you would think if you want it to look good. I arranged them all make sure they fit well and looked good and then I started gluing.
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Here they are all arranged and ready to be glued.
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gotta love the glue gun. :)
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I would take a few out at a time so I wouldn't lose the arrangement I wanted them to be in and glue each one individually.
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all done. Don't they look GREAT. I would say start to finish the project probably took 2 1/2 hours most of the time spent gluing each cork down of course.
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looks good.
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I hung them on the wall with Velcro. I am very impressed with the outcome.
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and now to put it to use.
9 comments:
VERY cool! Love them, love them, love them!
hello! came across your project on yhl! your cork boards are so charming. what a cute little dog too! love the rest of the blog as well.
Great idea! I have hundreds of corks. This is a great project. I also like your coaster idea.
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Great job! Love this idea! I have been collecting corks for a while to do this very same idea.
Love it! I've been saving my corks for months to do a similar project. Just out of curiosity, what size frames were those? The corks fit perfectly!
Love this idea!!
Nice work! They look great!
Such a good idea. and they look so classy!
Thanks so much for all the comments and for visiting my blog!!
I posted some more details regarding the project here:
http://simplyem.blogspot.com/2010/02/i-was-feature.html
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