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Look of Embossing with Glue Frame

Are you ready to get creative and make cereal box crafts? Create a keepsake with this Look of Embossing with Glue Frame from Heidi Borchers. No one will know this project was created from the remnants of your favorite breakfast cereal.

Look of Embossing with Glue Frame
 

Materials:

  • Aleene’s Original Tacky Glue in the gold bottle
  • Cereal box cardboard – 6” x 8” for each frame
  • Stylus – for scoring cardboard
  • Pencil
  • White spray paint (I use Rustoleum Flat White)
  • Tape
  • Chalks – either decorator chalks or the pastel chalks (sticks)
  • Brush – hard bristle (like a stencil brush)
  • Aleene’s Matte Spray Sealer
  • Clothespins

Instructions:

  1. To shape the cardboard into a frame, use a ruler and a stylus.Place the ruler ½” from the edge. Score the cardboard, by carefully running the stylus along the edge, keeping the ruler straight. Repeat on each side.

    Look of Embossing with Glue Frame
     
  2. Cut at each edge to make a flap.

    Look of Embossing with Glue Frame
     
  3. Place glue onto the flap.

    Look of Embossing with Glue Frame
     
  4. Line up flap edges.

    Look of Embossing with Glue Frame
     
  5. Use a clothespin at each corner to help hold the frame together until glue dries.

    Look of Embossing with Glue Frame
     
  6. Draw your pattern or design onto cardboard and cut out. Place pattern onto the frame and trace lightly with pencil.

    Look of Embossing with Glue Frame
     
  7. For a finer line of glue, make a nozzle from tape. Place a 2-½” piece of tape onto the existing plastic nozzle.

    Look of Embossing with Glue Frame
     
  8. Outline the pencil pattern on the frame with the glue. Hold the tip of the tape nozzle about ½” from the frame and let the glue flow onto the pattern.

    Look of Embossing with Glue Frame
     
  9. Add additional dots onto the pattern.

    Look of Embossing with Glue Frame
     
  10. Let the glue dry completely until clear.

    Look of Embossing with Glue Frame
     
  11. Paint the entire frame with the white paint.Let dry completely.

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  12. You can use either pastel chalks (sticks) or decorative chalks and the hard bristle brush.Rub your brush over the chalk to pick up the chalk ‘dust’. Then place brush onto your prepared frame. ‘Scrub’ the chalk dust into each area. Then lightly blow off the excess dust.

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  13. Color in each area.Clean or rub your brush on a paper towel in between each color.

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  14. Fill in the background and sides. If desired, spray entire surface with spray sealer.

    Look of Embossing with Glue Frame

 

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