Denim Craft: Colorful Flower Frame

What you need:

• Plain wooden frame
• Old blue jeans
• Dark blue acrylic craft paint
• Scissors
• Hot glue gun
• Clothing dye or colorful acrylic paints

What you do:

1. Paint the frame with dark blue craft paint and set it aside to dry.
2. Cut green denim into thin strips of varying lengths for the flower stems. Glue them to the frame, ensuring you have three different heights of stems on each side of the frame.
3. Cur flower petals from different colors of denim, cutting them in the shape of a teardrop, six per flower. Glue the petals together to form each flower.
4. Cut circles from the colored denim for the centers of the flowers. Glue the circles to the centers then glue the flowers to the stems.

Notes:

The jeans we used were dyed with Rit clothing dye. Because you will not be washing these pieces of denim any longer, using regular acrylic craft paint is a totally acceptable alternative. Simply paint the denim, allow it to dry, then cut the shapes from the colored denim as described below.