Okay so as this is a photo project, and I used pictures of my friends. I don't want to show up the final products incase my friends don't want their faces on the internet. But I'm sure you can imagine it. It's a poster covered in pictures cut in the shape of the bird.
Also the inspiration from this came from how people would hang their pictures on the wall. I wanted to make a poster instead and decided to cut it in a bird shape to add some pizzaz.
What you'll need:
A poster boards
Poster
Ruler
Scissors
Pencil
Mod Podge or Glue
Photos
Decorating Supplies
The first thing you are going to want to do if you want to do it at all is to draw your shape on your poster board. I enlarged my picture to size on the computer so that if printed out it would fit on the board then took measurement and used those to draw the shape.
Whether you used a shape or not you are probably going to want to draw the gridlines based on the size picture you have. My pictures were 4x4 so I made 4 1/4 inch squares so that there would be a 1/4 inch border between the pictures.
After you have your grid drawn you are going to want to place out your photos so you know where they go.
Then because I had a shape and I needed to know how to cut the pictures so that the picture would fit the bird I used scrap looseleaf paper to trace all the individual squares.
Then I cut them out and matched them with the pictures.
Because the squares on the bird were bigger than the actual picture I had to go and cut off a border of 1/8 inch. If you are doing this too (which you don't have to. You can wing it or you could not even have a border) then cut off half the amount from each side that you added to your actual picture width. So I added 1/4 inch to my pictures so I cut off 1/8 inch from each side. I used a ruler to make dots and then redraw the shape.
Then I used tape to secure the stencil to the paper to make it easier to cut out the shapes and I actually cut the pictures.
Then it's time to cut out the shape and cover up the lines from the pencil while still kind of keeping them so you know where to put your pictures.
I decided to mod podge tissues on mine. I didn't want to paint and I was going to use tissue paper but we didn't have any so I just tore up some tissues and mod podged it on. I had to use quite a lot to cover up the pencil lines. I would not recommend this but it did add some nice 3D aspect to my final product. If you do I recommend erasing the pencil lines slightly so they are less noticeable.
I did the outer edge too...
And then cut off the excess.
Then glue on your pictures and you are done. Again I don't want to show you mine for my friends privacy but I'm sure you can imagine what it looks like.
I hope this inspired one of you and if you do try it out you should put it on Pinterest and send it to me at http://www.pinterest.com/glueandyou/crafts/. I'd love to see it. And make sure to make it your own!
