String art

String art is very popular and fun. It is a great way to express your creativity. You can make many different shapes with many different colors. You can make your child's name with strings for the kids room. It will look lovely on the wall. Also you can make string art as a gift for your love one. As a wall décor it can be very stylish and cool for your living room.We know that it will be fun and inspiring…

Cork board rolls // Linoleum Nails // 3M Hanging Strips // embroidery thread (this is a great pack with all the colors you’ll need) // glue gun // white duct tape // mini styrofoam roller

Before you start this project, unroll the cork boards and place a bunch of heavy books on them to straighten them out a bit.

Each piece of cork board is only about 1/32″ thick – definitely not enough to hold a nail stable. So stack three together. Use your glue gun to glue them together. Put them back under some heavy books for an hour or so so allow to dry completely.

You can download the template for the word “dream”( https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-BzPe25r715NzI5ZTI3ZDMtNjY1MC00MmZiLWJhYTUtMDRkYWZiMGFkNGRh/edit) . The “d” and the “m” will print in two parts on two different sheets. Cut them all out and assemble into a single word using some Scotch tape. It should look like this when you’re done.

Reinforce the spaces between the “e” and “a” and “m” with some additional tape. That will make the entire template more stable to work with. Don’t worry about cutting out the inside of the “d”, “e” and “a”. Not necessary!

Center your template out on your cork board.So if there was too much cork at this point trim away a few inches from the top and bottom.

IMPORTANT! DO NOT TRIM THE CORK BOARD WITH A BOX CUTTER! IT WILL TOTALLY SHRED AND FALL APART ON YOU.USE SCISSORS AND IT WILL CUT NICELY WITH MINIMAL SHREDDING .

Paint the cork. If you’re fine with the cork color/texture background, then feel free to skip this step. use some leftover latex paint I had (BM Sea Pearl if you care) and a Styrofoam mini roller. Nothing special.

When the paint dried, there was a little bit of buckling of the top layer of cork board and you could see missed spots .Don’t worry if this happens to you, it’s completely not noticeable after you’re done.

At this point you’ll want to flip the entire canvas over and apply your hanging strips.Do this now so that you don’t have to deal with it once all your nails are in.

Center your template and tape it down.

Insert your nails into the cork, following the outline of your template. They should push in fairly easily with a little pressure (except when you hit a glob of hot glue below…then you’ll need to push a bit!) Trace the inside of the “d”, “e” and “a” by pushing the nails right threw paper.

When you’ve traced the entire template, carefully remove the paper. Work slowly and you’re nails will stay in place.

Here’s the canvas ready for stringing! it already looks pretty cool at this stage.

Now the fun part – stringing! I decided to do this in a rainbow spectrum effect but you could easily do it in all one color as well. This package has a nice assortment of colors. More than enough for this project.