My Puzzle Wall Tutorial

DO you like to put puzzles together, but don't want to take them back apart?

You want to glue them together but not sure what to use.  Or what to do with them.

by this at Walmart or any craft store.

Take poster board or a big piece of card board

I bought 2 sheets.  I put my puzzle together on top of one.   And you can use the 2nd sheet to cover the puzzle when you are not working on it.  Then no one will mess up what you have done so far.  And if you have cats, they can't get to the loose pieces.

Once you put your puzzle together put the 2nd sheet of foam board and have someone help you flip it over.   Layer a piece of either newspaper or gift wrapping paper onto the back of the puzzle.  

DO NOT glue yet or your front of your puzzle will stick to foam board.

Now flip again

Before coating if you want to add a label to the puzzle write or type 

one up 

and apply to bottom right corner.

 Coat the front of your puzzle 3 times with Modge Podge.

Dry in about 2 hours between each coat.

Now put foam board over it and flip again.

You can either coat the back or glue paper on the back.  I glued Kraft paper on the back of mine

Once you have several puzzles.  And an empty wall you can start covering it.

I started in the middle toward the top.

Tools you will need are:

1- yard stick

2- ruler

3 - scissors

4 -  pencil

5 - Hammer

6 - xacto knife

7 - straight pins with flat top

8 - Level

Starting at top middle of your wall hang your first puzzle.   

Use your level at the top or bottom of the first puzzle you put up to make sure it is level

Using the Straight pens 

Add your puzzles in random sizes so it forms a sort of collage.

Holding the Straight pin so that your fingers are all the way to the head and all the way close to the wall.  

Keeping the pin at an angle tap tap tap small taps.  If you don't follow these directions you will constantly bend your pins.

If your puzzle is bowing in the middle at all add a pin somewhere around there.  Do not tap them in all the way, then tap side of head bending the pen.  Flatten it done and it will hold puzzle flat.

I should have removed the boarder that the previous owners put up.   But wasn't sure how.

I first started in the middle of the wall but then I had a problem at the top.  See how one has a gap.  So I took the Rhino down and started at the top.  I also found no matter how flat the side of the puzzle looks it is not flat. 

So I used some green card stock I had on hand.

I cut 3/4 th inch by the length of paper

I then lined around each puzzle.

I learned by mistake.  Here is what it looks like when you don't line them.

when you line around them with green or another dark color it will look like this.

Using the Straight pens 

Add your puzzles in random sizes so it forms a sort of collage.

Now why do you need Ruler and yard stick.  Well I ended mine at a certain point on the wall.  So I had to cut them to fit.  I also wrapped them around the corners.

I ended up with a small 8 x 8 square.  So I took a small puzzle one of my Foster girls did and cut it to fit.  The Monkey face.

The Tree I had to cut to fit a space there.

Had to add another part of the Kittens puzzle to the top right corner.

I still need to finish beside the curtains.  Curtains by the way are pulled to the side because I have a bird cage sitting on desk right now and I don't want them pooping on the curtains.  lol

And now the finished or almost finished room.

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Snowman Painting with Acrylic Paint

I am so far behind on posting it is not even funny.  I'm sure all of you are getting behind on things also.  The holidays are fun by overwhelming.  LOL  I have taken a couple more painting classes since the last post and want to share them with you.  

  I'm so sorry I forgot to take pictures of the steps.  I took a few so will put them below.  

But before I do here is the steps I remember.

Paint your back ground a blue you like.  Mine is Teal and blue mixed.

Next either with Chalk or with painting draw a head and body.  You can draw it up high like I did so your had hangs over the top of the painting.  Or down lower so hat and top of hat is inside the painting.  Like they did at Painting with a Twist in Picture below.

So as you see they put there head down a bit lower.  I also didn't make my head quite as big.  I had it smaller and kept making it bigger and bigger.  But it still never got as big as theres did. lol

Next paint your hat and scarf on.   I as you can see chose to make mine look like a Yarn crochet fuzzy hat.  I mixed purple and white by taking a medium size flat brush and tipping the left side of the flat brush in white and the right side in purple.  Then dabbing it on.  NOT swiping.

My hat kind of well seemed to get bigger and bigger because it just doesn't look like theres.  But now I see there head was wider.  I like mine a lot though.  The Teacher teaching didn't teach us the blue shading on the face.  I see that now and wish I had noticed it then on the wall example.

I wasn't real thrilled with so much body and thought it needed something so I added more scarf.  The Teacher said to use white shading above the fold in the had but I took my Purple and lightened it with white.  I like it better.  Or think I do.  lol.  

I then added my mouth and snow.  And a little shading on scarf in a circle to look like it is tied in a not.  Up close i didn't' think I did such a good job.  But in this picture it looks good.  So I am proud of myself.

Now in the pic below if you look all the way to the right at the painting on the wall it has a tongue inside the mouth showing.  I was going to attempt that but changed my mind.  She did not teach the mouth.  I added that after seeing the one on the wall off to the side.

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Hope you enjoyed this painting.  I have another that was done before this one but have to find my photos I took.  Happy Holidays to you.

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Halloween Almost Here

But with it comes this darn colder weather.  Well at least it is back up to 81 for a couple days.  Not quite sure where the Fall weather went.  Someone must not have gotten the memo on that.  LOL

With Halloween comes Kids and Candy.

Do you get lots of little ones (AND BIGGER ONES) ringing your door bell with the words Trick or Treat upon there lips?   For 14 years we lived out in the country and only one little family stopped by.  2 years ago we moved to the City or just outside of it and my goodness what a difference.  I think we got 85 last year if not more.   I'm going to count them this year and hopefully take some photos.  I just love Halloween and all the decorations.  Here are a few pics of my decorations. Maybe you will get some ideas from them.

Above is the rubbery eyes I got from the dollar store.  I took a fish bowl jar and put it on top of a candle holder.  I put a piece of styriphome glued to a butter lid, on top so I wouldn't need so many eyes.  

On the top shelf I got a hold of different bottles and put labels on them Like Eyes of Newt, But Juice.  I used a gold web spray inside of a jar then added a tiny skull.

How to Make a Potion Bottle

Just Click above to learn how to make a Potion Bottle.  Easy Directions.  But I'm sorry I have not finished the top of it.

Below are a few pictures on how I decorated our front porch.

The witch and Frankenstein Below I got off a local Sales site for hardly nothing.  Check out VarageSale.com and look up your city see what is the closest near by where you live.

Every year I say I am going to make up treat bags and every year I don't seem to get around to it.  Last year I made some little ones so happy with giving out candy and little disney rings.  Had lots made up to sell (Hello Kitty) and Etsy say NOPE can't do that.  So I gave them out to the little girls.  Even had one little boy say  (I think I would like one of those too).LOL

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