Here are three recent ideas I found there, all focused on working with wood.
1. Wood Grain Silhouettes - Ditch the jigsaw in favor of paint to create reverse image artwork. Lowe's provides a complete how-to on creating personal plywood art, and HGTV's Genevieve Gorder makes over a foyer, showing the project in action.
2. Wax Paper Image Transfer - Use wax paper, an inkjet printer and a credit card to transfer images onto wood. This step-by-step tutorial by Angela Lerew at Unexpected Elegance has images and advice for achieving the best results.
3. Staining Wood, Naturally - How to use vinegar and metal to stain wood. According to The Money Pit, "A handful of pennies will produce a beautiful pale Caribbean blue stain. A wad of steel wool will give you a rich reddish hue. A combination of tea and a metal object in vinegar will produce a black stain." The article also provides ideas on using other non-toxic ingredients, such as tea, coffee, walnut hulls and black raspberries to stain wood, as well.
Would you try any of these projects yourself? Which one inspires you the most?
(Images: 1. Lowe's, 2. Unexpected Elegance, 3. The Money Pit)
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I like this wood grain portrait idea a lot but not sure every silhouette would look as nice as the pony tailed girl. Great project for a rainy day.
I love the iron on transfer idea! Beautiful!
A different tip for the wax paper transfer... As much as this looks awesome, some printers just won't let you put anything else in it.
A tip I got from a nail ploish tutorial is using newsprint and soaking the paper in rubbing alcohol and putting it on a different surface and transferring the image. I'm sure with the rotate image and you used a newsprint like material, this would be easier to achieve than fighting with ripping and jamming your printer with wax paper at home.