Patriotic Paint Stick Decor.
Hi, Guys!
I'm Kristen and Welcome to Studio Knit!
I'm coming to you today from my family's Beach House here in Northern California.
We're having a reunion both to celebrate Independence Day here in the US as well as our parent's
50th wedding anniversary.
So, it is going to be a really special time for our family.
I also am getting together with fellow Kin Community Creators for this video.
We're having a Block Party, as it were.
Francesa Garza, Weelicious, and Carina Stewart, we are all getting together to share some
really fun 4th of July holiday ideas for you.
So, make sure to check them out after this video.
And let's get started.
Our patriotic paint stick decor.
It can be used as a wall hanging, trivet, or even a placemat.
It's a project that family members of all ages and abilities will have fun making together
and showing off for years to come.
Upcycling old paint stick stirers and even those chop sticks you have sitting in the
junk drawer in your kitchen, we are going to make up the base of our new crafty flag.
For our materials, we have wooden paint sticks and mine are 14 inches in length.
And we're going to use about 7 or 8 per flag.
Wooden chopsticks.
a glue gun with glue sticks, and paint brushes.
Traditional for paint and I'm using a sponge for my decoupage.
You can use Mod Podge or even just regular craft glue.
We have acrylic paint.
Papers.
Any lightweight papers, like wrapping paper or I have some origami paper.
It works great.
And little star embellishments.
You can get crafty using adhesive rhinestones, starfish, even old buttons.
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Starting with our first paint stick, we are just going to put on some acrylic paint, go
ahead and brush on however you'd like.
I'm going give mine a little bit of extra depth and dimension here by sort of piling
up my paint and adding in some black and white to give it a bit of a vintage feel.
And to decoupage, just take your paper, cut it into strips, and then with either your
modpodge or your glue, sponge it on and place it right there on the front of your paint
stick.
And then on the back, fold it down after you have added another layer of modpodge and that
is going to hold right there.
And then on the top and the back we are just going to smear our mod podge all over it.
And let it dry.
Once you have all of our paint sticks created how we'd like, line them up and then flip
them over the opposite way right here, because we are going to use our upcycled chopsticks
and glue them in place right here on the back.
And this completes the base of our flag.
It's super simple.
It looks really cute on the wall or we can use it as a placemat.
And now we'll just finish it off with our stars, I have rhinestones, using some buttons,
crafty stars, and some starfish.
So, I hope you're inspired to have some crafty family fun this summer.
And make sure to watch all of my fellow Kin Community creators.
There are lots of fun ideas for you.
And I'll see you next time.
Bye!