Frame with rolled paper tubes

This project can be done by everyone from 8 to 80. It's a recycling and inexpensive project and  it's a lot of fun.

We are going to learn how to do a frame with a cardboard stencil.

Before we start you should read this 2 posts:

• Paper rolls and paper coils, recycling old paper
• How to do a stencil?

What we need:

• rolled paper tubes,
• rolled paper coils,
• cereal box,
• glue,
• scissors,
• craft knife,
• old paper,
• varnish, transparent,
• white paint, or any other color you like best,
• paint-brush.

How to:

1. Roll about 60 paper tubes;
2. Roll a few coils too, minimum 4 like the tutorial;
3. Use the scissors to "unmount" the cereal cardboard;
4. Keep the 2 larger pieces, one will be the frame back, the other will be the stencil;
5. Use one of the big pieces and draw your image, the one you want to appear in stencil, in this tutorial is a flower, draw always on the backside;
6. Cut it;
7. Paint the front side with the color you chose, we used white;
8. In the second big card piece, same size as the first one, glue the paper tubes, leaning against each other;
9. Leave about 0,5in at the top and at the bottom, just like the image;
10. Take you paper coils and glue them in the cardboard piece corner;
11. Wait to dry;
12. Cut the excess rolled paper;
13. Apply glue both in the coils and in the stencil base;
14. Glue the stencil to the base with the rolled tubes, just like the image;
15. Press and let it dry, we used small paper clamps;
16. Glue small pieces of paper around the edges of the frame.
17. Let it dry;
18. Varnish it;
19. Let it dry again;

Et voilá!
Paper all the way!

Enjoy!