This little project seemed to take forever! Collecting enough bread clips or climps as they call them in the right colors took awhile but I did get some help from my friend Lisa, from Beadsoul on Etsy. For some reason her husband collects them so she sent me a bunch! The other reason is I wanted to use a square frame; Ikea has these cool square frames with big mats but they were out of them! Ikea is not my favorite place to go (I am an online shopper!) so I waited until I absolutely needed something else like a little cart for my craft room!
First I laid out my climps to make sure I had enough colors in the pattern I wanted on a sturdy silver piece of standard size square scrapbook paper.
I made an "X" to figure out where the center was and just glued the four center climps and worked out from there. I used Yes glue but I am sure a glue stick could work. The cool thing about Yes glue is that with the plastic climps, it takes a while to dry so you can adjust things if necessary. You will notice the climps are not perfectly square or all the same size so I alternated the directions and fit them as closely as possible so a small border was left on the outside edge of the scrapbook paper, that allowed it to fit perfectly into the Ikea Ribba mat. I let it dry overnight before framing though.
What do you think? Perfect little art piece for my kitchen? Comments welcomed!
Very cool! Now to collect a bunch of these guys. :)
ReplyDeleteStephanie, once you start collecting them you won't be able to stop! Thanks :)
DeleteI think this is really wonderful
ReplyDeletehaikuplatespecial, Thanks so much!
DeleteThis is great Heather! I never would have thought to create something with bag clips. The effect of the artwork is very cool.
ReplyDeleteMiss Val, thanks so much, I've always loved colorful geometric patterns & thought this would be a quick project once I collected enough clips :)
DeleteI can see it more as a background for some 3-D artwork, like a creature made from Legos, then framing in a shadowbox.
ReplyDeleteJoyce you, I can see that too! Thanks for stopping by :)
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