Altered Spool
I’ve
been seeing a lot of these altered spools on the internet and they all looked
so pretty and I thought I must try making one of these spools. I made my spool
using a toilet paper roll and 4 circles of chipboard (or in this case cereal box
chipboard) cut out with my Cricut machine at 4” in size. For the top and bottom
of the spool I glued 2 pieces of the chipboard together for each end. I used
the Blue Paradise papers for my spool, so before gluing the spool together I
cut 4 circles at 4” on my Cricut again and glued one of these circles to both
the top of each circle and the under side of the circle. I then cut a piece of
the Blue Paradise paper to wrap around the toilet paper roll. Once all of the
pieces were covered with the paper I was then able to glue the spool together.
The
glass knob on the top of the spool I picked up at a local recycling store for
$1.00, I love finding bargains like that at these types of stores! Once I got
that glued onto the top of the spool I took some white lace and glued that all
around the top circle of the spool. I then took a string of pearls and wrapped
them around the bottom of the center piece a couple of times; using some hot
glue in spots to hold them in place, then loosely draped the pearl string up the
center and brought it onto the top of the spool using some hot glue to glue it
down on the top. In my stash I found this small dangly bracelet that I had
picked up at the dollar store one day and decided it would look pretty dangling
off the top of the spool.
For
my flowers I took one of the French White Open Paper roses and sprayed it with
some purple glimmer mist. I had also taken a small piece of the same lace and
used it to make a lace flower which I dipped into the glimmer mist that was on
my craft mat from spraying the white rose, never waste anything I always say
lol. I glued the purple rose, one of the pretty white meadow flowers and a
small purple rose bud, which I made, onto the top along with this cute little
bird I found in my stash. I then glued my lace flower and another flower from
my stash onto the bottom and I was done and quite pleased at how it turned out.
I hope this inspires you for Meg's Vintage challenge! TFL!
Products from Meg’s
Garden
Blue
Paradise paper P6215
White
Lace L2895
French
White Open Paper Rose
White
Meadows flower
Other Products
White
pearl string
$
Store bracelet
Prima
flower
Glass
drawer knob
Small
craft bird
