I promise you – PROMISE YOU – that if I can do this and have them turn out so incredibly well, so can you. Within 20 minutes of finishing my first and second batches of picture tiles, they were on my walls.Īnd that’s it. I like to give little half-swirl strokes, which just enhances the painting-like feel of the finished product. So use creativity when you’re brushing on the Modge Podge. Because your ink is probably going to run just a teeny tiny bit, it will give the appearance of a painting. Now you just brush Modge Podge all over the front and across the sides to seal everything down and in. Just take your sandy device, if you’re using one, and run it firmly, in quick motions, across the edge of the picture.įor some reason, I really wanted you guys to see this step. I like to use sandpaper or a little sanding block, but you could also flip over the picture tile and use a straight-edge razor blade to just shear off the extra paper. Now you want to get rid of the excess paper around the edges (unless you want to fold them down, Modge Podge them, and have your picture extend down the edges, which is fine by me). The white stuff on the picture is just dusty stuff from the tile I’m smoothing with. You are getting rid of air bubbles now.Īlways pull in one way, or you’ll just reposition the air bubbles all over the picture (I learned that after the 20th one). Then take a straight, heavy object (like another tile or a book) and press down and pull the heavy object across the tile/picture. Gently rub the paper over the tile until it’s positioned just right. Once your backside is coated (hahaha), flip it over and place it onto your tile. Now flip it on over and give it a healthy coating of Modge Podge all over the backside.Ĭoat it evenly throughout the back of the paper – but don’t take too long or the Modge Podge will start to dry. Now you have printed pictures the size of your tiles.ĭon’t worry about cutting straight or messing up. So print them on printer paper (or photo paper, if you want to get all fancy). The not-laser-sharp, somewhat rustic look of regular printer paper for this makes these things SO charming.
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If make the image just a little too large, I can sand it down so it’s even with the square.Īlso, feel free to use just regular old printer paper. I always go a little over on purpose, because I’m like a monkey when it comes to cutting straight. I resized my photos for these tiles to exactly 4 inches (square). For mine, you can see it’s just under 4 inches. So in your photo editor, when you go to resize it, you choose the “size” by inches. That’s right, you need to measure your tile. Crop it into a square, and then resize it to the size of your tile. So on your computer, pull up your photo editor (whatever you have is just fine – Picasa, Photoshop, whatev). Now, you’ll want to choose photos that work well if you crop them into a square.
Not sure if it was a fluke, but the cheapest tile I could find at Home Depot was $0.30-ish, and the cheapest at Lowes was $0.10.) (FYI, I found that Lowes prices on tiles were cheaper than Home Depot. Buy single tiles – or a whole box, if you want that many.
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How to Make Picture Tiles to Impress Your Friends and Strangersįirst, you need to go to Home Depot, Lowes, or something like it. You will turn your house into a tiled shrine of pictures.Īnd it will be glorious. It’s just grainy and doesn’t dry clearly.īUT, if you can overlook that one minor issue, I think you’ll love this. (Although I think it’s an EXCELLENT glue for your kids.) I wanted with all my heart and soul and feta cheese to be able to report to you that homemade Modge Podge works as well as the original. The only thing that’s not particularly crunchy about this is that it uses Modge Podge or similar (and I’m not sure what’s in Modge Podge).
Tiles that cost $0.13 each (for the 3.8 x 3.8 ones). Long story short, I discovered this method of transferring my photos cheaply, quickly, and beautifully to something uncommon and unique. You might think, with my trigger finger on the camera all the time, my house would be littered with photos. (Also, I can’t ever remember if pink and purple go together or not.)Īnyway, this extends to photo frames. I do not decorate.Īrguably, one of the reasons why is because I. Lately I’ve been having this huge urge to decorate the house.
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