SUPPLIES

• Large paint sticks
• White paint
• Paint brush
• Large piece of burlap
• Uphol­stery tacks
• Jute or ribbon
• Hot Glue
• Faux flow­ers

I am so excit­ed to share this project. It was def­i­nite­ly one of those “ah-ha” moments in craft­ing. I just love it when a plan comes togeth­er. My inspi­ra­tion came from see­ing a tray made from paint sticks and draw­er pulls which I thought was absolute­ly genius. I loved the idea of re pur­pos­ing the sticks but I want­ed to take it a step fur­ther by cre­at­ing some­thing to hang on the wall.

I start­ed by assem­bling the paint sticks side by side on a flat sur­face, and hot glu­ing them to two short­er pieces of wood on top and bot­tom. The best part is the sticks are suu­u­u­u­per cheap. You can find them on the paint isle at Wal­mart, 3 for 96 cents I believe. If you don’t have any scrap wood lay­ing around I rec­om­mend using two of your paint sticks here. This is basi­cal­ly all you have to do for this first step. You can see in my pic­ture that I acci­den­tal­ly for­got to alter­nate one of my sticks toward the middle.…whoops. It’s still cute though.

Now you’re ready to move on to pain­ing your new board. I used white and then dry brushed with a soft grey col­or. It kin­da reminds me of shiplap don­cha think? 

…or maybe a lit­tle white pick­et fence?

Once your paint has had time to dry, its time to make your pock­et with the burlap piece. I had some scrap lay­ing around and lit­er­al­ly just messed around with fold­ing it until I got it just right. Here are the steps:

• First fold your piece in half “ham­burg­er style” the way you did in grade school
• Then fold a short lit­tle piece of the top sec­tion down cre­at­ing a lit­tle cuff
• Now fold in each side. If you have excess, now would be the best time to trim it up.

After this step, your flo­ral pock­et will start tak­ing shape real­ly quickly.

Posi­tion your pock­et on the board and tack one bot­tom cor­ner using an uphol­stery tack. Repeat on the oth­er side pulling the burlap nice and snug across the board. 

Next, you’re gonna want to insert and arrange your flower stems in the top of your new pock­et. It’s impor­tant to do this before tack­ing the top corners. 

Now you’re ready to secure the top of your new pock­et. Once secure, you can sim­ply embell­ish with a small piece of string or rib­bon just under the cuff. This adds the per­fect lit­tle amount of detail with­out tak­ing away from the beau­ty of the flowers. 

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