Scrapbook Paper + Glass Plates

Good afternoon to all my Pinterest Peeps! Time for the breakdown and-dum, dum, dum- the verdict on my latest Pinterest project. This week I tried the Scrapbook paper + Mod Podge + Glass Plates ='s Oh so Pretty!

 I have to give serious props to prettyhandygirl.com. This chick is super craftastic to come up with this, and  waaaay more talented than I am. Therefore her plates came out way better than mine. But I think with a few small changes on my end I could get mine looking like hers.

Items needed: Glass plates, Mod Podge, Scrapbook paper, scissors, a pencil, glass cleaner and a couple of canned goods from your pantry.

Ok, so when I was scouring the Dollar Tree looking for those dang trays from my first blog post I saw glass plates on one of the aisles. I picked up two just in case I blew it on the first one. Spent like $2.20 on them and these are nice glass plates.

Next, I headed over to Michaels for some scrapbook paper. The tutorial says the thinner the paper the better so that's what I went with. I think picking out the paper I wanted was the most time consuming of this whole project.  I already had the Mod Podge so I headed home to get started.

thin paper works best

trace the plate onto your paper

First I wiped off all the fingerprints with some bobo Windex. The next step according to the tutorial is to lay the plates down on the paper and trace around the edge to get a circle the same size as the plate. Then cut out the circles.



slits in the circle



Once you've got your circles, you cut 4 slits evenly around it. BUT NOT ALL THE WAY TO THE CENTER! Next, cut four more slits between the ones you've already made until it looks like this.  You should end up with 8 if you do it right. Confused yet?

Now you're ready to glue the papers onto the plates. But THIS is where it got a bit tricky in my book...You cover the bottom of the plate with your Mod Podge(Make sure its a thin coat!) Then you're supposed to lay the paper onto the center of the plate. 

Next, you gently press the paper around the edges, but you have to make sure it slightly overlaps at each slit. (Otherwise you get this gap where there's no scrapbook paper and it looks like crap.)  That sounded easy enough. But once I pressed the paper down it was painfully obvious it wasn't frickity frickin centered! I tried again with the other plate and the same thing happened again which means I'm an idiot or this is hard to do. 

 I was hoping it would look o.k. once I was done so I just proceeded to the last step which was to apply a VERY thin coat of the Mod Podge on to the back of scrapbook paper that's already on the plate. I smoothed out the wrinkles with my finger just like Pretty Handy Girl said and then placed the plates ontop of the canned goods to dry.

Once the plates dried they looked like this:

 

Here's the verdict: These aren't bad and I'm sure if I stuck a bunch of cookies or something on them no one would notice BUT they definitely don't look like the one's on Pinterest. You can definitely tell the paper is completely uncentered and you can see the Mod Podge through the glass.

What I'd do differently: To solve the whole uncentered paper, especially for us new to this crafting craze, I wouldn't cut the paper to fit the exact size of the plate. I would make sure the paper was a good 2 or 3 centimeters longer than the edge of the plate. That way it wouldn't have to be exactly centered to turn out OK.. Once I laid the paper onto the plate and pressed it down I would just trim the excess off.. BAM!

To fix the visible Mod Podge, I'd just dilute the stuff with water to make it a lot thinner. Or buy the aerosol Modpodge. Those two simple fixes and this would be a pretty darn simple and cheap decorative plates for parties, baby showers, wine tastings, whatever.

Here's what I spent:

Two really nice glass plates from the Dollar Tree = $2.25

Scrapbook Paper from Michaels = $0.59 a sheet so about $1.25 total

Mod Podge = $5.67 (you'll use this shiz over and over again if you're a Pinterest freak like me.. It's like the crafter's crack and most of you have this anyway. Or you can make your own by watering down some elmers)

The whole project took me less than 20 minutes and cost about $3:75 not including the Mod Podge. Not bad, and if you take my suggestions it should work out for you.

The only Negative I can say is that these plates can never be washed obviously. You can either use them once and be done with them or you could always wipe them off really well with some Lysol and wet paper towels. 

Next week we're making a super cute, super simple piece of personalized art for your child's room!! This one you'll love, love, love!! 

xoxoxo

The Posh Pinner