But now back to the crafts. I have managed to do some crafts in the midst of traveling back and forth from Colorado for work, Did I take pictures of my steps on all of them? probably not, I know one I did for sure and that is.....THE TICKET BOWL!!!!
The ticket bowl you ask? I was perusing good ol' Pinterest and Kyle said "ooo honey look at that one, it'd be perfect for Derek!" And low and behold it was a bowl made of raffle/carnival tickets. I clicked on it looked up how to do it and thought we can totally do this it will be cheap with our homemade mod podge and the cork leftover from other projects all we need is to find a roll of tickets. How hard could that be?
Let me tell you it was all quite simple except finding a roll of tickets that wasn't $10 or ones that only had a star or a party hat on them. I went to office supplies stores, Target, and Party City and they all fit under that category. So what did I do. I went to Amazon and found some for $3 in his favorite color(GREEN) and what made it hilarious is it says "one drink." It's only funny b/c he is in that stage of his life where that's all you do...College aged hah! Of course it was one of those items where they will only ship it if you buy more stuff b/c it is selling for so cheap, but that gave me a great excuse to buy my other Christmas presents that I needed to anyways. 3 days later they were in my mail box and I went straight to work.
After that long introduction here is what you need to make it all happen:
- Roll of carnival tickets(mine was 1000ct
- mod podge (mine's homemade 50% elmers with 50% h2o)
- foam brush
- cork
- scissors
- pen
- clear gloss spray paint
Next slowly and gently start pusing down on the center of the tickets and work your way out. (make sure that your words are right side up when you push down) This forms the tickets into a bowl shape. Depending on the size roll you have will deteremine the size bowl. I'd say mine is pretty medium size.
When you have it as pushed out as it will go...I left the top of mine kinda thick so I had like a lip/collar around it... Take the mod podge and put it on the outside and inside as well as the on the cork. Make sure to get in all the cracks and let it dry.
Once it has dried do another layer and dry again. Then go to a well ventilated place and spray that sucker with the spray paint. This gives it a nice glossy finish and helps it be water proof and not fade in the sun. OR so I am hoping.
This is just supposed to be a bowl where he can drop his keys and his wallet in after work or shoot maybe put a snack in it if he wants to. But I wouldn't recommend doing cereal or ice cream. Hopefully he likes it. If not oh well I only spent like $4 on it. Does that make me awful?!
I'll put the pictures up as soon as I get them onto this computer...I am using the boyfriends work laptop to post this, I felt bad that I hadn't in a while. Look for more blogs to come too... I have been busy busy doing more Christmas crafts/gifts as well!
Hope you all are having fun getting in the spirit of things!
See you next time Goonies! :D
