I wanted to share with you a super simple, but oh so special gift that I love to make. I made a few of these for Christmas presents, and then made Andrew one for his office for father’s day!
To start, I use instagram to add a filter to my pictures and make them square. If I want to make a collage of pictures or add text I use picmonkey to edit.
Then, I have something like this:
In Microsoft Word, I create a 4×4 text box and fill it with my picture. You can get four 4×4 text boxes on 1 page like this:
I print it out on cardstock and gather the rest of my supplies:
I spread 1 coat of Mod Podge on the back of my picture, and place it on my 4.25” tile. Then, smooth out any bubbles and apply a top coat over the picture. Again, make sure there’s not any bubbles.
When it’s dry it should look like this:
and be waterproof to sit your glass on
Once everything is good dry, I add a piece of felt with hot glue to the back.
And then I usually get so excited, I don’t wait ‘til Christmas or the holiday to give it to the recipient. I am TERRIBLE at surprises!
What is your favorite thing to do with Mod Podge? Leave me a comment or join me on facebook to share your ideas!
check out these other Mod Podge ideas:
Those are very cute, and a great gift for grandparents, too! I may have to borrow this idea and use pieces of old maps to match my living room’s funky global theme. Thanks for the idea!
Cute! And a great idea…think this will be my gift next year. This year I mod podged cute scrapbook paper and also used some pictures to the large glass marbles and made magnets. I also did a fun gift for my girlfriends and I decorated flasks with cute fabric and ruffles–they probably wont get used but they were inexpensive to make (@$12/each) and fun to create!