Looking to make something cool for my family that is personalized, I came across a youtube video of mosaic tile art. It featured tile covering a trinket or jewelry box. So looking through my stash of craft supplies is a must. The first find is a box of scrabble tiles. This will be my desired thickness for the other tiles. Searching in the kitchen also brings up a fondant roller, and some texture plates. The fondant roller has 2 thickness pieces so the tile will be a uniform thickness. My jewelry stash is key for charms and metal that can be embedded in the clay. Even going in my scrapbooking collection yielded rubber stamps and some metal brads and keys. In addition, pearlex powder was used for different looks, and also some jewelry enamel paint for some of the charms and stamped tiles. This added colour and interest
Here is my first attempt at mosaic tile art. It is a plastic book box that is Harry Potter themed. I think it originally had a game or sticker collection in it. The front cover had a recessed area that can be filled with tiles. Most of it is scrabble tiles with Harry Potter pictures and dimentional magic on top.
Also in the top gold bakeable clay tiles are a lightning bolt and a deathly hallows symbol.
My second project almost made itself. This photo frame is a great base for a space themed mosaic tile art piece. The scrabble tiles miraculously fit vertically. In my button collection there was planet buttons, and although they are plastic, they can be glued onto the clay tiles after they have cooled from baking in the oven. Some computer parts were embedded in the clay. As you can see, anything can be used!
The third one will be for me! This project will be on a serving tray that will become a wall hanging. We found it at Value Village for $4. Gesso is applied. Then, paint is mixed with all purpose sealer. The mixture is allowed to dry and then lightly sanded. The paint is important as not all the tiles will sit together perfectly, and a little colour underneath will look better.
Using only 3 colours will keep it looking not too busy. Funny story, as I was making some tiles, the cat jumped up and stepped on the soft clay, so I decided to make a tile of her paw print. Here she is her name is Snowball
Here is my completed artwork.
And here is my longest secret I've kept - a whole year in the making - personalized tile boards for all the kids in my family. I used charms, metal findings, beads, stamps, shells, number tiles and even stones. Some tiles are glazed, and some are not. Each have a cross because we're Christian, and a maple leaf because we're Canadian, and they each have their Zodiac sign. This was a very long project but well worth it.
Here is the first for a boy who loves his sport - football. I wanted to design his to look adult as kids have a habit of growing older, and it's my hope he'll want to keep it as an adult. I chose dark colours and a chunky jewelry theme.
The next three are for the girls and they each had a different colour preference. Each one has the same jewelry piece to tie them all together as family.
This one was fun as I fit in a lot of jewelry I had in my stash.
Tori's is purple and has some running charms.
It was good I had a unicorn in my jewelry stash as someone loves unicorns!
She liked the blinged key the best.
Hope this inspires you to try something different.
Here is my first attempt at mosaic tile art. It is a plastic book box that is Harry Potter themed. I think it originally had a game or sticker collection in it. The front cover had a recessed area that can be filled with tiles. Most of it is scrabble tiles with Harry Potter pictures and dimentional magic on top.
Also in the top gold bakeable clay tiles are a lightning bolt and a deathly hallows symbol.
My second project almost made itself. This photo frame is a great base for a space themed mosaic tile art piece. The scrabble tiles miraculously fit vertically. In my button collection there was planet buttons, and although they are plastic, they can be glued onto the clay tiles after they have cooled from baking in the oven. Some computer parts were embedded in the clay. As you can see, anything can be used!
The third one will be for me! This project will be on a serving tray that will become a wall hanging. We found it at Value Village for $4. Gesso is applied. Then, paint is mixed with all purpose sealer. The mixture is allowed to dry and then lightly sanded. The paint is important as not all the tiles will sit together perfectly, and a little colour underneath will look better.
Using only 3 colours will keep it looking not too busy. Funny story, as I was making some tiles, the cat jumped up and stepped on the soft clay, so I decided to make a tile of her paw print. Here she is her name is Snowball
Here is my completed artwork.
And here is my longest secret I've kept - a whole year in the making - personalized tile boards for all the kids in my family. I used charms, metal findings, beads, stamps, shells, number tiles and even stones. Some tiles are glazed, and some are not. Each have a cross because we're Christian, and a maple leaf because we're Canadian, and they each have their Zodiac sign. This was a very long project but well worth it.
Here is the first for a boy who loves his sport - football. I wanted to design his to look adult as kids have a habit of growing older, and it's my hope he'll want to keep it as an adult. I chose dark colours and a chunky jewelry theme.
The next three are for the girls and they each had a different colour preference. Each one has the same jewelry piece to tie them all together as family.
This one was fun as I fit in a lot of jewelry I had in my stash.
Tori's is purple and has some running charms.
It was good I had a unicorn in my jewelry stash as someone loves unicorns!
She liked the blinged key the best.
Hope this inspires you to try something different.
