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Tutorial for upcycling pizza box into a wreath

It really breaks my heart to see the amount of cardboard and plastic, in good condition, being dumped.

I love finding ways to reuse, upcycle or repurpose household stuff, especially kitchen ware like plastic bottles, cereal boxes, milk cartons, milk jugs etc.

We have a set tradition of having Pizza from Pizza Hut for Friday lunch (our weekend)

And that’s how I have heaps of pizza boxes !!

Today, I am sharing a simple yet easy way to use the cardboard from the pizza box to make a wreath.

The felt flowers are also handmade. You can find the tutorial to those HERE.

This frame was salvaged from a friend, who was leaving the country and wanted to get rid of it since it was too large and had no glass in the front. Ofcourse, I rescued it.

Here’s the tutorial :

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Link for Tutorial for felt flowers

Black and white wreath (1)

Now for the bunting:

Bunting for wreath

Rubberstamps Bunting and rubberstamping Felt flowers on wreath

The heart shape in the wreath is made with white foam which was packaging material in the box, from a recently bought earphone set. I added a felt heart and a button over it. And voila, it looks lovely !

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I think, its stinkin cute ! I liked it enough to have it hung in the hallway.

Black and white stripes with pops reds and pinks is just so attractive.

I believe, crafters can breath life into any mundane object with their glue guns and some paint 🙂 – One minute that box could have been chugged into the bin but we found a way to make it adorn our walls.

Although, I have designed the frame and wreath with the HOME sentiment, It could be easily replaced with words like Love, faith, friends or names of festivals.

I hope you find inspiration in my projects and might consider attempting some of them.

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I love to salvage ‘stuff’. I, almost always find inspiration ‘especially’ in broken items. Unfortunately that also means, that alot of broken items don’t land up in the rubbish bin immediately in my home. (as they should) eg Broken mugs are stored to be used as mosaic material

Would you believe this frame was an empty shell with no base/back or glass infront and now — Ta da !!

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This frame was found in one of my frame piles and I decided to FINALLY work some of my magic on it.

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I absolutely love the HOPE sign below, but one of our new fosters (kitten) jumped high enough, to break it.

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Like I said, its not THAT EASY for things to be chugged in the bin – – – at my place !!

(the fact that my husband and sons are fed up of my habit is another story for another day though )

Long story short –

I decided somehow the HOPE sign and the frame would look good together. Here’s a simple tutorial of what followed.

upcycle broken frame 2 — The frame did not need to be sanding, so I proceeded with two coats of acrylic paint.

upcycle broken frame 3 — Found this light weight, foam backing for the base/back. The frame had hooks intact on the back so I measured the black foam and cut to fit in the back of the frame.

upcycle broken frame 6 — For the background, I got some cardboard and painted colors – colors that are generally out of my comfort zone eg yellow, purple, blue !

upcycle broken frame 5 — I applied some DAP instant Grab adhesive to glue the two broken spaces on the HOPE letters.

upcycle broken frame 7 — Let it rest for atleast 12 -14 hours.

collage art 1 — Having painted stripes of cardboard, I went on to roughly place the stripes on the black base foam board to see how the pattern looked.

collage art 2 — I decided, I did not want a symmetrical pattern and wanted a random distressed look . I snipped the excess cardboard which had exceeded the black foam’s border.

collage art 3 — I measured and placed smaller pieces of cardboard on the empty edges

collage art 7 — Then I hot glued all the pieces along with regular PVA glue for additional strength.

collage art 8 — Finally I placed the frame over and adhered it from behind.

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I wanted to give a 3D effect to the sign hence I added a piece of cardboard on the back of the HOPE sign at two places and hot glued the sign to the colorful background. That way, it gives a popping out impression.
I have added random thin golden paint strokes to conceal the spots where it had broken – in turn giving it a more marble-like effect.
It is necessary to give one coat of modge podge or varnish on the entire frame and background – so as to make it more durable and it will be easy to clean it in future too (from dust etc since it does not have a glass covering)

I absolutely love how this turned out. Did you like it too ??

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