Hey everyone, after a busy weekend I was finally able to get a tutorial done. This one was really fun to do; we were playing around cutting the spoons, but it took some patience... And a lot of glue.
Materials- sorry I didn't get the picture of all this
Plastic spoons- the flimsy white kind, I used almost six packs of 48 spoons
Small round mirror
MDF wreath frame 18"- this can be found at Michaels in the floral section
Poster board
Hot glue gun and glue, also wood glue
Paint in your colors of choosing- I used three reds to do a slight fade from dark to light though you can't see it in the pictures
To begin, use your MDF frame to trace and cut out a circle from your poster board. This will be the base for the mirror.
I traced a few different sized circles onto one side of my poster board to use as reference points when gluing on the spoons. The largest is the inside of the wreath, the middle is a plate, and the inner is the mirror. Next, I glued the wreath frame on the opposite side of the poster board. Use whatever glue you would like on this part.
While the base is drying cut all the spoons handles off. I used probably close to five boxes of the spoons, but I would have six on hand. I found that these spoons are just flimsy enough that you can cut through them with regular scissors.
You want to cut as close to the rounded part as possible, but I found that leaving a little piece of handle on some of them came in handy.
I also recommend sanding down the edges of the spoons that will be used for the smallest circle. This will be about 23 spoons. Do this so that if any of the edges are seen around the mirror they look clean instead of jagged.
Next comes the gluing. Plug in your hot glue gun and let it get nice and hot.
Start on the smallest circle that you traced, the outline of the mirror, and glue the spoons on. Try to keep them right on that circle. You can overlap them a little depending on the look you want.
Continue gluing the spoons on in circles going outward. Tuck the bottom of each new layer underneath the layer on top of it so it is hidden well.
The next step is painting. I wanted to have a slight fading effect in my colors so I used three different shades of red that were very close together. You can do any sort of painting effect that you would like.
I started painting from the inside to the out, using my darkest color on the inside and moving to my lightest color.
You can't really see the color change in the picture because it is so minimal but here is what my final painting looked like. The husband picked red because it is his favorite color and also one of our main accent colors downstairs.
The final step is gluing the mirror into the middle. I had to be a little creative in this part because mine didn't sit flush against the base, so I used a paper plate the same size as the mirror to give a little more room to glue. Use whatever kind of glue you feel comfortable with here. Then, secure some string onto the back for hanging or just put some nails in the wall and use the MDF frame to hang, either way, do it how you like it done :)
There you have it, a fun mirror made out of spoons that I would say cost about $15 :) I love it and hope you guys do too.
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