I love music, and I love notes on a page (which by the way I also want to learn to read those notes, so I'm working on that also). I started noticing that I had some friends with old sheet music they really didn't want. Instead of throwing it away they gave it to me! Now I had some new material for new creations.
This is actually my second creative session with these sheets of music. I made some necklaces with some of it, too, which you can see here. Some of them already sold, but more will be coming soon. These necklaces are some of my absolute favorite items at Golden Apples Designs, so I will be making more in the near future.
Here are the materials with which I started. They were accumulated through clearance sales, gift card purchases, or broken things I thought might work out into something cool one day. That small brown frame with no back, for example, was the top of a small music box that broke.
And so I began.
I used glue, just plain old craft glue, and carefully attached the pieces of sheet music to a couple of the frames and used the sheet music to cut out pictures for other frames. I also had the ocean picture printed along with the picture that has Victor Hugo's quote about music. After only a couple of hours total (some was drying time), here is the result:
So here are five more gifts ready for Christmas, and it only cost me a couple of hours and about $7 total that I spent over the last eight months or so on the frames.
I'll be doing some more of this soon and listing some similar music sheet creations at Golden Apples Designs.
Join me in my Homemade Christmas Project and begin making gifts each month for Christmas. I would love to see what you have created, so feel free to email me or post pictures on our Facebook page!
