Paper Mosaic Tray

As my husband knows, I usually opt to decorate things using the most time consuming method known to man.  At some point he knows that I will groan and complain and wonder who in the world let me start the project!?!  In the end I will love it and take photos of it and love it some more.  It's an endless cycle.  Here is the white tray from the last post.  If you didn't read that post, it used to be brown, but I rescued it, and now it's white.

Of course it wasn't enough to just have a white tray, I mean - that's boring!  So I took some white poster board and using water colours painted it seaside colours.  Yes, it is taped to the table.  My table gets a beating with all the projects it has to live through so I figure why stop now.  The paper is still a bit wavy, but as it dries it flattens out.  I have zero patience and so I used a hair dryer to speed things up a bit.

Then using a paper cutter I cut it into stupidly small half inch squares.  If you are going to try this at home, I would strongly suggest using a square punch, as it's almost impossible to get perfect squares otherwise.  Using Mod Podge I glued each square down.  Weeks later I finished it by sealing in the squares with a coat of Mod Podge.  

It took forever to get the squares glued on.  I went with paper because I thought it would be faster.  I'm thinking it might have been faster to use real tiles!  

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