Sometimes a craft project comes along that sounds like it is either going to be totally awesome, or totally horrible. This was one of those times that I wasn't quite sure how this was going to turn out. It all started by me telling my husband to save all of our empty toilet paper rolls. This was met with with a very questionable look but at this point in our lives, he knows that sometimes my mind is madness, so he went along with it!
Once you've collected all of your rolls (I used 8 rolls for this project), you want to flatten the toilet paper roll and cut strips about half an inch thick.
After you've made all your cuts, you'll want to plug in your trusty glue gun. You will use a lot of little spots of glue to put all of those pieces together. Take 4 pieces and make them into a T shape, gluing each piece together at the tips. It sort of looks like a little flower.
Its starting to look pretty! So at this point, just continue to glue, glue glue until you've made as many little flowers as you'd like. After you're happy with the amount you've made, you'll want to start gluing them all together.
Now after you've glued it all together, you can do one of two things. Spray paint it and be done and hang it on the wall as is, or you could put it into a frame. I chose the frame, I just felt like it would look a little more finished. Since I was putting it into a frame, I had to end up cutting a few pieces to make it fit.
I had an old frame from Ikea that I decided I would use. It was just your typical silver frame.
Like I said earlier, because of its size, I had to cut and snip a few pieces until my eyes were happy with the way it looked, then I took the whole thing and just stuck it in the frame. Mine fit pretty snug so it held it in the frame really well. If yours is a little looser, you could always hot glue a little into the insides to hold it in place. Now it was time for my favorite part. Spray paint! I painted the frame oil rubbed bronze and the toilet paper rolls I sprayed first with silver and then went back over it with little spritzes of the oil rubbed bronze to give it a speckled look.
In a way I think it looks like an iron scroll piece. Of course, we all know its just good ole TP!
It didn't come together exactly how I had pictured it in my head and it's certainly not perfect but I like it anyway!
