diy crafts
I decided to embel- lish a plain, boring, brown accent pillow. Pennies are the perfect embellishment to bring
some metallic and texture into the space! First, I laid out my 100 pennies onto my coffee table, and for good luck, I flipped them all over to be heads up. I then had some fun laying them out to create a shape. Yet, the shape I came up with was just too flat and I wanted more design to it, so I started to pull apart the shape until I created a design I was happy with. Then it was time to start gluing. I used the hottest setting on my hot glue gun. I was very happy with how it turned out and surprised how heavy 100 pennies feel! This penny embellishment project could result in many dif- ferent design possibilities. Just think how different a chevron penny embellishment would look on a turquoise pillow! Abbie, Ecolectic abbiemarshall.com
Tips: 1. When using hot glue on metal, its best to use a hot glue gun with multiple heat settings so you can get the glue nice and hot. The hotter temperature helps keep the cool metal from setting the glue too quickly. 2. To keep the glue from leaking to the other side of the pillow cover I
put a piece of aluminum foil inside the cover. Then, starting in the middle of the design, I placed the pennies onto the cover, gluing and working from the middle out. 3. Measure to find the middle of your pillow cover to make sure your design is centered and straight.
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