Craft: Display Stand!

This little stand was inspired by none other than Shelly at House of Smiths.  Who is amazing at making her house look a lot like a house I want to own.  Her house is so bright and breezy!  And she had loads and loads of tutorials that I'm sure you've seen featured all over the place because - well, how could they not be?!

One day as I was reading through my blogs I came across this gem she made and I pinned it for later.  How cute did hers turn out?!  And the simplicity of it!  I can do that!  

So I did:

Only I'm not as cool as Shelly.  I didn't stencil my pattern on - I mod podged paper onto it, but still, it gets the job done, right?!  And with the little white pumpkin - forget about it.

(September 23rd is the first day of fall and the first day I get to put up all my fall decor...you just watch out!)

So this is how I did my version of Shelly's way cute stand:

1. Scapbook paper of your choice.

2. Mod Podge

3. Wooden circle (found in the unfinished wood aisle for cheap-o!)

4. Paints of your choice.  Go nuts.

5.  Paint brushes.

Oh yeah - one of these too:

This old thing used to hang out in the guest bathroom as an accent until it was tipped over and cracked.  I'll show it to you.

Anyways as you can see:

You paint...a lot.  This took about 4 coats.  And yes that's the crack.  After it dried that crack became less visible, even though after the tip was glued on, you'd have to be a detective to know it's there.

See - barely even visible:

While that's drying you turn your attention to your platform/ tray of choice:

Since the paper will be covering the top, you don't have to go all out and paint the entire thing, just the parts that would be visible, I painted underneath too.

Then it's time to measure the top of the wood and cut your paper to size.  And then you mod podge:

After you mod podge the scrapbook paper to the wood itself, you wait for it to dry and then mod podge over the top as well.  Because I'm impatient, I rarely wait until the bottom dries and it creates a bumpy mess:

So as soon as that dried I put a heavy book on top of it to hopefully smooth things out:

Luckily after a good smush the bumps were gone.

Then it was time for the Gorilla Glue:

Always, always, always remember this!

I seem to forget and then find myself cleaning up a bubbly mess of excess glue.  It's not pretty - just trust the bottle.

I put a line of glue along the edge of the candle stick and then it was time to leave it alone...with a book on top making sure it was really on there!

Yes, that's a lot of glue, right?  Well if you can imagine, that's actually after a lot of clean up.  Seriously you guys, its everywhere before you even know it!

The bottle suggests that you leave it like this for about 3 hours.  I left it overnight because I know myself...I'll wait for about two, then test the strength of this stuff because, how strong can it really be?!  And then I have to start all over.  So I found the will power and left it alone.

Which left this:

I painted that little pumpkin - not much of a tutorial because there wasn't much to it.  Find a cheap pumpkin and ya paint it.  Done.

But once paired with the fun new display stand and it's oh so pretty!

Next step: glass to make this baby a cloche!

Well that's all there is to it!

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