DIY popsicle stick photo bracelet & PSE giveaway

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Over the past few years I've seen popsicle stick bracelet tutorials on various blogs, and while I e'er idea the idea was cool, the finished effect ever seemed a flake juvenile. Since Mother's Day is coming up I've been thinking about some personalized jewelry celebrating my kids, and I had an thought: would adding photos to a popsicle stick bracelet turn it into something I'd actually wear? Well, that would be a yep.

This niggling project really turned out really fun! If you soak really big popsicle sticks (aka super jumbo craft sticks) in warm h2o long enough, you tin bend them to fit within a glass or jar. Once they're dry out they keep their shape, making a cute wood bracelet, which you tin then brand cuter with pictures of yourself & kids.

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Adorable, right? I have a couple videos for you demonstrating how to brand the bracelets and add the photo strip, and and then I'll show yous how piece of cake it is to crop your favorite photos into a photo strip using Adobe Photoshop Elements.

Earlier I get to the how-to, I want to let you guys know I'll be partnering with Adobe for the next few months as a brand ambassador. That means every month I'll showcase at to the lowest degree one project made using Photoshop Elements. I actually use Photoshop Elements nearly every day, both to edit my own family photos and blog photos, and also to create all my printables and pretty much whatsoever project that includes photographs. Information technology has everything I need and is like shooting fish in a barrel to use. And I become to requite abroad a copy Photoshop Elements 14 and Premiere Elements 14 (video editor) at the cease of the post, so keep reading!

Ok, back to the bracelets. These would make a great DIY Mother's Day gift! As soon as I have new pictures of my kids I'm going to make a bracelet with a photograph of each of them and give it to myself 🙂

This video shows you how to form the bracelets:

A few notes:

• I used super jumbo arts and crafts sticks that are one inch wide and 7.5 inches long. Yous desire to find a glass or jar that is small enough to bend the sticks until the ends are pretty close to touching (or if yous accept modest hands/wrists maybe really touching). When I used the pint mason jar and pushed the bracelet all the mode to the bottom it ended up the right size, but the one I left virtually the top was a scrap too big (information technology's the ane yous meet in about of these photos, and I was able to fix it after I took the photos).
• I boiled the craft sticks for 30 minutes, and so let them soak in the hot water for over an hr. At that signal they were pretty soft and it wasn't too difficult to bend them into shape, although it did have a minute or ii of coaxing for each one. Exist gentle when doing so; if y'all push too hard you'll snap the stick (then you might desire to boil some extras).
• Place the jars/glasses with bracelets in them in a 250 degree oven for about half an hour, or until completely dry. In one case absurd, they'll come up out easily.

And this video shows you how to add the photo strip to the bracelet:

A few notes:

• I used matte Modern Podge and a cream paintbrush. Trim the photostrip to size kickoff (information technology should be 1 inch broad and seven inches tall). So paint a layer of Mod Podge onto the bracelet and polish the photo strip on. Try not to get any Mod Podge on your hands at this signal – if you do, wipe them off before you bear on the front of the photo.
• You might need to hold the photograph onto the ends of the bracelet for a infinitesimal or 2 to let it start drying. Then you can prepare it down to let it dry completely (nigh 15 minutes).
• Once dry, sand the edges of the photo strip. So paint another layer of Mod Podge right on acme of the photos. Effort to utilize polish castor strokes as they will exist slightly visible when dry (if you really don't want to encounter whatever brushstrokes you could spray with a sealant instead). Once that'south dry out, your bracelet is done.

1 concluding note: i of the bracelets I made concluded up a trivial also big, so I got brushed water onto the inside of the bracelet to dampen the wood, slid it into a slightly smaller glass, and baked for most 10 minutes. I permit information technology absurd and now it's perfect!

Ok, here'due south how to brand a photograph strip in Photoshop Elements 14:

(Quick note before we outset: I like to use Floating Documents mode in Photoshop Elements, which means you can see and work on more than than one document at a fourth dimension. To plough this on, go to Preferences -> General and click "Allow Floating Documents in Expert Mode".)

1. Get-go by opening 5 photos you'd like to put on your bracelet in the photograph editor in Photoshop Elements. You'll want them all to be either horizontal or vertical. Mine are horizontal photos. As well open upwardly a new blank file that is 7 inches wide, 5 inches tall, and 300 pixels/inch. (Note, if you apply vertical photos you'll desire your new file five inches wide and 7 inches alpine).

2. Hit "C" to select the crop tool. At the carte on the bottom left, set cropping to "custom" and then set the crop size to one.4 inches broad and 1 inch tall. Make sure the resolution (on the lower right) shows 300 pixels/inch. Click and drag on your showtime photo to open the ingather markers. Adjust until you similar what portion of your photos is showing, and so hit the green checkmark to consummate the crop. (Note:If the Ingather Tool Options are not showing along the bottom, click on the Tool Option button virtually the bottom left of the window.)

iii. Repeat the cropping process on all five photos. Hit "V" to get the Move tool, and drag each cropped photo on the new bare file. Arrange them in the order you want them to be in the photograph strip. Make sure the leftmost photo touches the left edge of the file and the rightmost photo touches the correct edge of the file.

4. To go your photos perfectly spaced, hold down the shift key and click on each photo to select them all, so hit "Align Top" and "Distribute Middle". The photos will automatically be arranged in a perfect photo strip.

At this point, you can save your photo strip as a .jpg (use Relieve As and exist certain to choose JPEG for the format). Then yous can order the photo as a v×7 from any photograph processor yous commonly use, or print information technology out at abode on photo paper or heavy weight card stock. Trim off the white infinite, and you're ready to make a bracelet, or display your photograph strip in any way you like. Photo strips are perfect for adding to a bulletin board, displaying on the fridge, or decorating a mirror.

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