Tutorial: Inspiration Board

Hello! As you can see I just can't learn all the time..! I decided to make a little tutorial for my Art-Piaskownica's Recycle Challenge! This time I would like you to recycle old clothespins!

I made an inspiration board for this challenge and thought that I could show you how to make a simple board like this! If you are interested please use it! And If you do, I would be really pleased if you mentioned that you used my little DIY project! :)

Have fun and show me your boards when you are finished!

{ INSPIRATION BOARD TUTORIAL }

Ok now this will really be an easy and quick tutorial. You will spend about 30-40 minutes making this inspiration board! Very very quick and nice looking project! :)

First collect needed equipment:

- regular hammer

- fabric of your choice (I used black because my room is already too colorful but I recommend using flowery or striped fabric - it will be an interesting effect!)

- simple/vintage pins or regular nails/pegs

- clothespins

- canvas stretcher (you can buy it in art & craft shops or just destroy an old painting if you have one that you don't really need any more - I destroyed one of my old paintings)

- colorful ribbons or stripes.. whatever you want really!

I couldn't find anywhere in my flat pegs with a good size.. but fortunately I found some vintage pins in my dad's drawer! Oh I am so happy I found them, they will look much better than regular nails!

 Ok now the most difficult part - take your hammer, pins and the canvas stretcher and start hammering your stretched (but stretch it really good!) fabric to the canvas stretcher.

 Here you have shown the order of hammering pins/pegs.. why is it important? Well if you will do it like on the photo below your fabric will be perfectly stretched without any ugly folds.

Now if you have finished take your ribbons and again pegs/pins.

 And start attaching your ribbons to the canvas stretcher using your hammer and pins/pegs.

Repeat it as many times as you want. I have a small frame so I used only 4.

Now the part with clothespins. I painted them with simple nail polishes. The cloudy one I got from Antilight few months ago - it looks amazing! You can also decorate it using washi tape - it will be much faster than waiting for the nail polish to dry..!

 Now attach your colorful clothespins to your colorful ribbons.. and your finished!

I took some random things and attached to the clothespins. And I have to admit that I really like how it looks now. And as you can see my walls below, black fabric was a good choice.

 My walls will collapse soon if I will add more pictures on them!

I hope that this little tutorial will be useful for at least one person!

And please tell me if you would like to see tutorials more often on my blog..

Have a wonderful and inspiring day,

marysza

P.S. See the cable organiser at the last photo? I got it from Niebieski-Igielnik! We had a lovely swap not a long time ago.. But I'll show you more later! :)