Recycle your magazines into art! After making flowers from magazine pages and seeing all the color possibilities I wanted to see if I could make a picture for my hallway using only the colored pieces from the magazine page! With time, patience and some Mod Podge I made this!
Materials:
- Old magazines (6 to 10)
- Canvas or board (I used a 24″ x 24″ canvas)
- Mod Podge Gloss (watered down glue)
- Paint brush
Directions:
Start by tearing the colorful pages from the magazine. Then tear the colored area that you will use in the design, and make a pile for each color.
I tore the colored areas that I liked, some were large, some small. I found with the lighter colors like yellows and pinks if the back of the page was dark, at times would show through, so I added an extra layer of that color. I also wanted the sides of the canvas to be covered….you need a lot of magazines pages.
Lay out your design, not on the canvas or board that you will be gluing the paper on, but in the area next to the canvas. Once your design is layed out, start gluing. I started with the sides, wrapping the corners like a package and covering the hole side.
If you have never used Mod Podge, the trick is to cover the area on the canvas with Mod Podge (or glue) then place your magazine page on that area and cover that piece with more Mod Podge, you want good coverage on the back and front.
To make it easier to wrap the sides, I used cans on each corner to hold the canvas up. With the design laid out right next to the canvas, I started in one corner and worked around, finishing in the center. This is a laying process, adding pieces on top of each other, if there is a special piece or color you really want to show, make sure you put it on last.
I found a few little designs that I really wanted to show, so I saved them for my last layer for a special touch!
Hope you are inspired!
I like adding fun little surprise pictures!
One more!
This time I used some images (pictures) right from the magazine!
You can see that the fruit, black vase, white & blue teapot (and others) are pictures torn out the magazine. While the background, some of the flowers & leaves and the large white vase are torn pieces of magazine made to look like…a flower or a vase!!
I love the the small fun details!
