Another way to make artful pins is to start with the thin wooden shapes you can buy by the bag at a craft store. The only limit here is your own imagination. Here’s what you’ll need for those:
- Wooden shapes
- Glue
- Fun yarn
- Beads, findings, other found objects
- pin back
- flexible wire
Take the wooden shapes and paint, draw or both your design on them.
This was done with Sharpie pens then sealed with acrylic medium. After that, I took a scrap of copper metal and bent it up into a shape (so there were no sharp edges) and glued it on as well.
Or you can just draw your design on and be done with it, as in this one. What can I say? Sometimes less is more. If you do use a pen to embellish, make sure it’s completely dry and then seal it. Otherwise, since wood is porous, it may bleed a bit.
Lastly if you’re going for bigger pins, you can buy the larger wooden shapes and paint them, wrap them with fun yarn, add some beads on and you have another funky masterpiece.
Enjoy, have fun with it, that’s the main idea.