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Art Display Rack
How To Make An Art Display Rack... by Julie Jones ~ click to enlarge~ Supplies Needed: Yard Stick Hot Glue Gun Ribbon Metal Clasp Barrettes If you are like most parents, you have lots of artwork from your kids. Most of us have a hard time throwing any of it out. Here is a clever way to display your child's artwork before putting it into the "round filing cabinet" or a file box. ~ click to enlarge~ STEPS: Make sure you've picked a ribbon that is at least as wide as your yard stick. Cut your ribbon to a length of 36 1/2 inches. The 1/2 inch allowance is for overhang. In this example, the yardstick was not tightly wrapped in the ribbon. The ribbon was just allowed to slightly overhang on the yardstick. With a heated hot glue gun, start to run a generous bead of glue down the front side of the yardstick for about two inches. Center the width of the ribbon with the width of the yardstick and attach the ribbon to the bead of glue. Don't forget to allow 1/4 inch on the end to overhang on each end of the yardstick! Continue to run the glue down the length of the yardstick in small sections until the entire stick is covered in the ribbon. Lay out the barrettes in their desired location before you glue them down. Be sure to put the clasp at the top of the yardstick and the part that holds the artwork pointing towards the bottom of the yardstick. Once you've picked out a look that you like, begin to glue the barrettes down. Stand back and enjoy this quick and easy art display that you've made for your child's room! This basic design is so versatile, it could be used several ways. Here are a few more options: Use bulldog clips instead of barrettes for a boy's room. ~ click to enlarge~ Use a pretty piece of moulding and attach ribbon just to the bottom half of the wood, then use clothespins as holders and put it in your laundry room, or beside your front door as a mail holder, a place for keys, or a place for messages and reminders. Use smaller rulers and make several of the displays to hang in a various pattern along your wall. Paint your yardstick and then run a smaller piece of ribbon down the middle as decoration. Wrap your yardstick in paper instead of painting it. Run a few long strips of ribbon vertically from your horizontal yardstick. Use these ribbon strips to actually hold barrettes for your daughter. ~ click to enlarge~ The possiblities are endless! Just grab your glue gun and some pretty ribbon and start decorating! Julie Jones MemoryVilla.com Design Team Member ~see my gallery~

Art Display Rack

How To Make An Art Display Rack... by Julie Jones

~ click to enlarge~

Supplies Needed:

Yard Stick
Hot Glue Gun
Ribbon
Metal Clasp Barrettes

If you are like most parents, you have lots of artwork from your kids. Most of us have a hard time throwing any of it out. Here is a clever way to display your child's artwork before putting it into the "round filing cabinet" or a file box.

~ click to enlarge~

STEPS:

Make sure you've picked a ribbon that is at least as wide as your yard stick. Cut your ribbon to a length of 36 1/2 inches. The 1/2 inch allowance is for overhang. In this example, the yardstick was not tightly wrapped in the ribbon. The ribbon was just allowed to slightly overhang on the yardstick.
With a heated hot glue gun, start to run a generous bead of glue down the front side of the yardstick for about two inches. Center the width of the ribbon with the width of the yardstick and attach the ribbon to the bead of glue. Don't forget to allow 1/4 inch on the end to overhang on each end of the yardstick!
Continue to run the glue down the length of the yardstick in small sections until the entire stick is covered in the ribbon.
Lay out the barrettes in their desired location before you glue them down. Be sure to put the clasp at the top of the yardstick and the part that holds the artwork pointing towards the bottom of the yardstick. Once you've picked out a look that you like, begin to glue the barrettes down.
Stand back and enjoy this quick and easy art display that you've made for your child's room!

Here are a few more options:

Use bulldog clips instead of barrettes for a boy's room.

~ click to enlarge~

Use a pretty piece of moulding and attach ribbon just to the bottom half of the wood, then use clothespins as holders and put it in your laundry room, or beside your front door as a mail holder, a place for keys, or a place for messages and reminders.
Use smaller rulers and make several of the displays to hang in a various pattern along your wall.
Paint your yardstick and then run a smaller piece of ribbon down the middle as decoration.
Wrap your yardstick in paper instead of painting it.
Run a few long strips of ribbon vertically from your horizontal yardstick. Use these ribbon strips to actually hold barrettes for your daughter.

~ click to enlarge~

~see my gallery~