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Wood Burning for Beginners

October 21, 2015 By Laura

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Last week I shared a wood burned adult coloring page with you, and now I’m back with another wood burning for beginners project: a wood burned tea box! With the holidays sneaking up on us, it’s time to think of gifts to share with the special people in our lives.

Wood Burned Tea Box Tutorial

This project is sponsored by Walnut Hollow. I love being part of their Blogger & Influencer program, as it enables me to bring you fun craft and DIY ideas using their unfinished wood surfaces – which are made here in the USA! 

Last week I shared how to transfer and wood burn an adult coloring page onto wood, then color it in just like you color in your favorite adult coloring books.

Today I’m sharing a wood burned tea box tutorial over on the Walnut Hollow blog.

This tea box is a wonderful handmade gift idea, and a great wood burning for beginners project!

Wood Burned Tea Box

The first step, if you want to wood burn a particular image onto a wood surface, is to transfer that image to the surface, like I showed you last week in my Wood Burning and Adult Coloring Pages post.

Here’s a vintage tea graphic transferred onto a beautiful basswood box from Walnut Hollow. (These boxes aren’t just for wood burning. The quality is top-notch. The smoothness of the sanded wood is like butter!)

image successfully transferred to wood

Once you have the image transferred, then you can wood burn the image by tracing over it with your wood burning tool.

After that, you can either leave it as is, or paint, stain, color or embellish!

I applied a transparent silver paint over the box. The paint seeped into the wood burned images and gave a nice overall sheen to the tea box.

metallic paint on wood burned box

My tutorial is a lengthy one, but it’s filled with:

  • step-by-step instructions
  • helpful tips
  • lots of pictures
  • complete list of supplies used

Click here: Wood Burned Tea Box Handmade Gift

A perfect tutorial for those new to wood burning!

Happy crafting!

~Laura

 

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  1. Theresa @DearCreatives says

    October 23, 2015 at 4:09 pm

    These would be such a pretty gift. Heading over to see your tutorial. Feel free to share your projects at my weekly party!

    • Laura says

      October 29, 2015 at 6:17 pm

      Thanks so much Theresa! (And I’ll definitely hop over to your weekly project party too!)

Pet Scribbles is where I share my craft tutorials, home and garden projects, and occasional stories about my cats. I can never have enough pretty craft paints to work with, and I love to make things look time-worn with distressing and aging. Gardening is my therapy!

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