She's Crafty...Brittany from LoveStitched!

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Welcome to my week-end feature...She's Crafty! This is where I feature one crafty chick, her fabulous craft project and tutorial too, cuz we gotta have a great tutorial in order to get our craft on right girls?

 Meet Brittany from LoveStitched!  Brittany is one creative mamma!  She's a self described list making, country music listening, vintage knob collecting, cereal mixing, craft store addict, Photo taking, Friday night jammies and a movie watching, California born, craftaholic, organizing fanatic, hopeless romantic wife and mom.  How fun is she?


Brittany came up with a fabulous idea for crafting with her collection of Anthropology knobs (but you could use any fun knobs for this project). Yup, this crafty gal whipped up what she calls "Antropology Inspired Knob Plaques". I love these, they are so cute and functional too...perfect for for displaying any necklace collection!  Or just a fun way to display some funky knobs!  Here's Brittany's tutorial in her own fabulous words:

I had a HARD time coming up with a name for this tutorialANTHROPOLOGIE INSPIRED KNOB PLAQUES

And what I ended up with wasn't OVERLY creative...so call it what you may but here is today's tutorial :

*warning A LOT of pictures*

What you need :

wood plaques

knobs

spray glue (optional)

modge podge

spray paint

e600 glue

scrapbook paper

sand paper (fine grit)

The Tutorial :

I bought these two wood plaques at Michaels for under $4 each

I picked a cream for the large wood plaque and a soft yellow for the small one

Spray paint and let dry
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Next pick a cordinating paper to modge podge onto your wood

* mine if from the AMY BUTLER collection*

using the spray glue...spray a light even layer on to the flat surface of your wood

(you can use modge podge instead I just find that the spray glue dries faster)

once the glue has dried take your sandpaper and rub along the edges of the wood

This will tear the paper off of the wood for you leaving clean crisp edges

Now is the fun part...I got out my collection of ANTHROPOLOGIE knobs and picked one that went with my plaque colors

I went with a simple white knob for this plaque

Using your handy dandy tool kit

(thank you hubby for this wonderful christmas present)

take out your pliers and bend the knob screw until it snaps off

**or get your hubby to do it ;) **

(if your whole screw snaps off skip down to the bottom and follow type TWO of the plaque directions)

now eyeball where you want your knob to go on your plaque....Mark the center with a small pencil dot

now using a philips head screwdriver make a hole in the wood for the knob to go in to

now to make sure your knob stays in place use your E600 glue and rub it all around the flat part of your knob

screw your knob into the hole

and press down while the glue is drying

i then did a light layer of modge podge over the entire wood to give it shine and reinforce the paper even more

and there you have it!

ANTHROPOLOGIE INSPIRED KNOB PLAQUES

Here is another QUICKER version of the knob plaque as well :

(make sure the knob you choose has a screw on the back that unscrews off completely)

- after your wood has been painted

- pick the knob you would like to use

- undo the screw from the base of the knob

- using your E600 glue cover the back of the knob

- place in the center of your wood plaque

- let dry and you are done :)

SIMPLE QUICK ANTHROPOLOGIE INSPIRED KNOB PLAQUES!

now i just have to decide where to put these beauties!

Thank you Brittany for the great tutorial...I'm totally inspired to make these for my necklace collection, or even just as a fun n' creative art display. And speaking of creativity...if your looking for more creative n' crafty ideas...check out LoveStitched!