Sunday 29 April 2018

Pimp It Up - Chopstick Wands

 
 
Over on our Challenge Blog the theme for April was Pimp It Up and I was just in the process of pimping up something myself so thought I would share




One of our customers told me about these and as we had just had another family trip to the Harry Potter Tour, could not wait to give it a try. They are really simple but very effective. They also cost next to nothing to make as I used all existing materials from my craft stash that I already had. The chopsticks were found in a kitchen drawer and the box was an old wine glass one (from the 1960s)
 
 
The main texture comes from your glue gun. Hold the chopstick and run glue down - you can roll it or make blobs or drips. I placed them in a chunky piece of polystyrene to hold them to dry after I painted them with DecoArt Acrylic paint
To give more texture, I put on a ring of glue around a couple of the chopsticks and pushed in some beads, I added different Tim Holtz ideology embellishments to make them all individual

I painted them all so they had 2 coats of paint and then started with some Treasure Gold


 The old box was already covered in an old cream paper with gold metallic flowers on. I used one coat of Wilted Violet Distress Paint and you can still see the flowers

 I downloaded a couple of Harry Potter Ollivander's labels and printed them off on some adhesive labels. I used antique linen ink pad to give an aged effect and cut them out to put on the box















 I used some purple tissue paper in the box
 Thank you for looking :0)
Susan
 


12 comments:

  1. OMG Susan!!! These wands are amazing!!! I love them and I will definitely try to do some for my nephews!!! Thank you for the inspiration!!! xx

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  2. These are just fabulous Susan....such a unique gift for Harry Potter fans! xx

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  3. You are so right Susan, this is so effective! Goes to show how useful and versatile the hot glue guns are... What a lovely gift idea!

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  4. Spectacular!!! Will definitely be using your idea, Susan. Thank you for sharing! ♥

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  5. These are awesome Susan - amazing wands!

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  6. What an amazing project!!! Can't wait to try making some wands of my own! XXX

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  7. OMG!! These look amazing .... I have to try this. Thanks for sharing xx

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  8. Wow these are great, my girls would have loved these when they were younger, shame they are all grown up now!

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  9. These are amazing and so much fun to look at!! Definitely in the running for crafty Christmas present ideas for friends and family!!

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  10. Amazing transformation and such an inspiration! Thank you for the tutorial! Hugs!

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  11. Brilliant and having seen them irl they look even better all done up in their beautiful box. Great project Susan xxx

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  12. Wow! These are fabulous Susan! And the detail is amazing. Jude x

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