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How to Make a Sugar Skull Bunting With a Wood Burning Tool
by
SunflowerHugs
(IC: blogger)
1 Hour
Easy
Michael's sells wood burning tools and with a coupon, they are very affordable. With the round flat tip you are able to transfer laser jet (toner based) images onto wood or fabric. Here's how to make a bunting with the tool...
Start with taping the wood burning tool holder to your table. This will prevent the tool from falling and from you burning yourself while trying to catch it. Add the flat round tip that is used to transfer the images.
I prepared my wood chip bunting pieces by giving them 2 light coats of white craft paint. I had already experimented on transferring the image on the natural wood and decided the colors would pop more on a white background.
To get the sugar skulls, I Googled it and found tons of images. I just copied and pasted them into a document and then sized them to fit my bunting pieces. I chose 6 different skulls and did 2 of each. All of them fit on one page.
Center the image on the piece as best you can, and then tape the image, image side down, to the wood piece. I just taped the top to keep it in place. Turn on your wood burning tool and let it heat up for a few minutes.
To finish it up, I painted the edges of the bunting pieces black and strung them together with black yarn. It took about an hour to do the whole thing!
I can't wait for October to hang it up for my Halloween decor!
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Published August 31st, 2015 8:00 AM
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