Project..Project..Project..Projec...Project...Project...Project..Project...Project...Project..Project..Project..Project...Project..Project.. Project... BY AIM MEMBER PAULINE COOMBES Materials: make + Cocktail sticks + Craft knife + Emery board (sandpaper or + Acrylic paints and/or files) distressing inks + Tacky glue Scuore + Cocktail sticks + Heavyweight paper or lightweight card + Piece of foam or similar to + Thin gauge wire (30 or less) stand pieces to dry ¢ Acrylic paint of choice + Paint brushes + Tweezers 1. Take a cocktail stick and file down one end: to speed this up use a craft knife to whittle away some and then an emery board to complete, see picture on the left. | would suggest about an inch and haif in length needs to be done. aN \ A i — 2, Stain toothpicks with either distressing inks or acrylic wash to give old look, stand in foam and leave to dry. 3. Use the design (on following page) to. create the rake ‘metal’ by cutting out of heavyweight paper or light card. 4. Cut pieces of wire into approximately 1/4 inch pieces —this one used 7 pieces and | placed them using tweezers. eeProject..Project...Project..Project...Project...Project...Project.. Project. .Project..Project...Project..Project..Project...Project. Rake template not to scale Fog ines ‘Might need to cut Glue line for wire slightly depending on how wide the cuff and NY handle are 3 | | I Wires glued to card 5, Place tacky glue on double side of the paper and using tweezers place the wire evenly along the edge making sure at least 1/16” of the wire is glued to the paper keeping the tops as even as possible. see photo. Leave to dry. The legs will be trimmed to required length later. 6, Fold over top to sandwich the legs between two piece of card. Leave to dry. 7. Then fold the side piece over the top and leave to dry. When dry trim the wires to an even size of choice. 8, Take the trimmed and stained cocktail stick and glue the cuff of the rake round the stick leave to dry. 9. Use acrylic craft paint of choice to colour the rake When dry trim handle to length required, round of the ends with an emery board and touch up with stain or paints. Text and project photographs, dlograms © Pauline Coombes 2014 When dry bend rake prongs at right Formottetiey nauane Coombes: angles to the handle using tweezers. coombes. pauline @yahoo.com ea te ee ee