DIY tiny frames for tiny labels

Let's take a moment on Remembrance Day to honour soldiers, past and present. 

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I am very excited about today’s post! 

Excited indeed! 

This weekend, instead of doing my schoolwork, I decided to do some crafting. I’m responsible like that, you see. But this craft marks the beginning of my biggest project to date! So I am excited! The rest of the project will happen after midterms.  Actually, my biggest project to date is my DIY upholstered headboard. I'm not sure if this one is bigger or not. We'll see.

This weekend I used silicone moulds and moulding sticks to create tiny little frames for tiny little labels! 

Ok, so I just gave away the rest of the project. If you read my blog regularly, you may remember when I mentioned my big project in my post about bedroom updates. The plan is to revamp my dresser, giving it a healthy coat of black, along with some other much needed updates. 

So these tiny little frames: 

They are only about an inch big, but I think they’re going to make a huge impact on my dresser revamp. I made them with Mod Molds, a product by Mod Podge that you use with a high-temp mini glue gun. 

This mini project to make mini frames for mini labels was hugely easy. Simply put a Mod stick in a glue gun, and fill up the silicone mould. I bought a new glue gun just for this project, in order to avoid some sort of Mod/glue stick battle, but I don’t know if that was necessary. I don’t know, maybe you can use regular hot glue rather than spending money on these Mod sticks, but I didn’t want to chance wrecking the silicone mould. So here we are: 

Once the moulding cools, pop it out of the mould and start again. And again, and again, and again… 

You’ll notice that the frames are a little rough in their current state: 

I used a regular exacto-knife and a steady hand to shave off the extra bits of mouling I didn’t want. Oh, and I threw out the first one I made because it wasn’t as good as the others. *Learning curve* 

Then I painted each one with black acrylic paint. 

Which turned out to be mat, because acrylic paint is not shiny all by itself. 

So I sprayed them all with my high-gloss, clear, acrylic, top-coat spray paint. 

To add the labels, I printed out tiny words in a pretty font, cut them to size, and used scotch tape to tape them to the backs of the frames. No frills there. 

Check them out! 

I plan on using E6000 when the time comes to attach these labels to my dresser. Just a tiny dab in each corner should *hopefully* do the trick. Stay tuned!