Paint Stick Coastal Flag

I got this creative idea from Crafts By Amanda blog. She has a wonderful step-by-step tutorial on how to make this. My advice to you is to use 5 gallon paint bucket stir sticks and not the regular paint sticks. 

http://craftsbyamanda.com/2013/05/paint-stick-beach-flag.html

Here's the exact paint used in this craft. The oyster beige was used on the starfish.

This was a fun and basically free craft! I live in Florida so the starfish are readily available. I used hot glue to secure the sticks together by gluing a shortened paint stick across the backs of the sticks. Used twine to make a hanging loop. Done!

Starburst Mirror using Clothespins

Wood Clothespins (31)

Mirrors (From Dollar Tree in the candle section)

Glue (Hot Glue and Elmer's)

Picture hanger or ribbon

Optional:  Decorative paper, spray paint

If you want your clothespins to have paper on them cut strips of decorative/patterned paper in centimeter wide strips. I noticed that some clothespins are different lengths so just use the clothespins you bought to determine the length of each paper strip.

After you cut 31 strips of paper and cut them to the length of your clothespins use regular Elmer's Glue to glue your paper to the clothespins. Feel free to use any kind of adhesive, including Mod Podge. Wait for them to dry. Be sure not to use a lot of glue, a thin strip will do.

 I used hot glue to attach all of the clothespins, but for the kids version use Super Tacky glue to attach the clothespins to the mirror so little hands don’t get burned.  Place the glue on each clothespin as show below.  Open and close it a few times so the glue gets on both sides of the clothespin and then attach to the mirror.

Add glue to one clothespin at a time and then attach to the mirror by simply clipping it to the edge. Repeat the process until the entire edge is covered.

If adding a ribbon to hang – open a clothespin and put the center of your length of ribbon right up against the hinge and then close. This clothespin must be hot glued on.

This idea was taken from In My Own Style