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Crafty Fiesta: La Guitarra Fiesta Frame Box

May 3, 2012 by FaveCrafts 20 Comments

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It’s a Crafty Fiesta all week long here on the FaveCrafts blog, and we’re joined by I Love to Create to get you geared up for Cinco de Mayo with some fun and festive craft projects! Be sure to keep tuning in every day through May 5th for all our amazing Cinco de Mayo craft ideas, DIY inspiration, and a giveaway each day. Check out today’s funky painted frame box tutorial, and then be sure to scroll down to enter our giveaway below!

 

La Guitarra Fiesta Frame Box

Every fiesta needs music, and the La Guitarra Fiesta Frame Box project from I Love to Create is a musically inspired craft that sings with color! Brighten up a table, credenza, or any area that needs some extra “pop” with this pretty painted craft project. Then, once the fiesta’s over, you can stow away your favorite treasures and keepsakes in style!

Materials:

  • Crafty Chica® Little Chica Paint Packs™
  • Aleene’s® Spray Acrylic Sealer™
  • Crafty Chica® Loteria Game™
  • Crafty Chica® Chunky Glitters™ (Rockabilly Ruby)
  • Aleene’s® Original Tacky Glue™
  • Foil
  • Wood box with a frame opening on lid (found at craft stores)
  • Newspaper
  • Paintbrushes – small and medium

Instructions:

  1. Remove the glass and backing from the frame portion of box lid.
  2. Choose four colors from the Crafty Chica™ Little Chica Paint Pack™ to paint the box: one for the inside, one for the outside bottom, one for the outside top, and one for the framed area on top of lid.
  3. Cover work surface with newspaper. Squeeze puddles of paint onto foil and paint box. Let dry.
  4. Use the back end of the paintbrushes to create flowers, dots, swirls, and squiggles in contrasting colors all over the box. (Refer to photo.) Let dry.
  5. Spray inside and outside of box with Aleene’s® Spray Acrylic Sealer™. Let dry in a well-ventilated area.
  6. Remove the frame backing, paint it, and let dry. Use Aleene’s™ Original Tacky Glue™ to affix the Loteria Game “La Guitarra” image in the center. Let dry.
  7. Brush on a thin coat of glue around the painted surface; then immediately sprinkle a coat of Crafty Chica™ Chunky Glitter™ onto glue. Let dry; then shake off excess glitter and insert into frame with glass.

Want to make sure that you always have good love vibes in your home? Of course you do! Well with this pretty love shrine, you can do just that! Enter to win this Crafty Chica Love Shrine from I Love to Create just by answering the question below in the comments section!

Love Shrine

Contest Rules:

  • Contest open to US and Canada residents 18+
  • One comment/entry per person.
  • Contest closes April 3, 2012 at 11:59p CST.
  • Please answer the question below in order to be entered.
  • Winners will be posted on this blog and notified by email

 

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  1. kassy says

    May 3, 2012 at 8:51 am

    my favorite craft to make for friends or family is about anything they ask for. if they ask for something, obviously, it’s because either they need it, or just wanna have something amusing.

  2. Lisa M says

    May 3, 2012 at 9:01 am

    my favorite craft to make for friends or family is soap or candles

  3. sherelyn nichol says

    May 3, 2012 at 9:13 am

    I love paper crafts, so making pop up cards is always a fun thing to do.

  4. robin says

    May 3, 2012 at 9:46 am

    we make flowers, we cut shapes of flowers outta colored paper and put glitter or beads on them and then give them as gifts on holidays or birthdays

  5. Rebecca says

    May 3, 2012 at 12:32 pm

    Journals with matching pens.

  6. Laura says

    May 3, 2012 at 12:32 pm

    I love to make beads out of rose petals. The recipients are always so pleased with them, espy if I make a rosary out of those beads. There are many methods out there for making rose petal beads, but my favorite is to grind them in a meat grinder (the old fashioned kind that you attach to the side of the table and crank) and run them through it by the handful, and rerunning the resultant mush through until it is the consistency of wet clay. Then, the fun of rolling that “clay” into little balls (marble-sized because they shrink) and then you stick a T-pin through the middle and stick it in a piece of foam core (or whatever) and leave it alone to dry for a few days…depending on the humidity. Presto! Pretty black beads that you get to say “I made myself, out of rose petals.”

  7. Carmen says

    May 3, 2012 at 12:43 pm

    I am a knitter, so I like to knit for my family and friends.

  8. sharon cameron says

    May 3, 2012 at 12:56 pm

    I make show I know a person’s favorite colors or what they really love…my craft is worked around that…but my favorite thing for a family member is a cross stitch picture of a loved one!

  9. Mary Mac says

    May 3, 2012 at 2:33 pm

    I love to make cards and photojournals

  10. Teresa (Knittingdancer) says

    May 3, 2012 at 2:36 pm

    I love to knit scarves or dishcloths for family and friends.

  11. Marg Roswell says

    May 3, 2012 at 3:07 pm

    My biggest request these days from friends and family is family heritage albums. I have completed 8 so far, with another 12 to go. I enjoy doing these albums, looking at all the old pictures and wondering what these ancestors would say about our times today.

  12. vicki richey says

    May 3, 2012 at 3:07 pm

    I am currently making coasters with old family photos…won’t they be surprised…lol

  13. Sue D says

    May 3, 2012 at 3:22 pm

    I make cards for friends and family.

  14. Charity McAllister says

    May 3, 2012 at 3:26 pm

    I love to give the unexpected! It may be a new quilt a sock monkey or a necklace full of zombie ears. I love making it all. Friends and family never know what to expect from me. 🙂

  15. jshel says

    May 3, 2012 at 9:40 pm

    I like to contact them in person to let them knoww I am thinking of them. And wish them well.we’ll!!

  16. melisa bennett says

    May 3, 2012 at 11:03 pm

    I like making anngels because try are always around when you red them

  17. melisa bennett says

    May 3, 2012 at 11:05 pm

    I meant when you need them

  18. Linda Darden says

    May 3, 2012 at 11:52 pm

    I usually try to incorporate something the person is interested in: chickens, frogs, ladybugs, mice, etc. Otherwise, I pick something I just have fun doing and would like if someone made it for me.

  19. Amy Jones #8546 says

    May 4, 2012 at 2:17 pm

    I love making cards for my friends and family.

  20. jshel says

    May 4, 2012 at 5:54 pm

    I like to make cards and knit socks or booties just depends on how much time I remember to give myself.

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