Easy DIY Wall Art With Scrabble Tiles

Last updated on 21 April 2016

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As I was sorting some old books at the library the other week, I was told to throw out all the borrowing cards in the back flaps. You know the ones – you’d borrow a book, and the librarian would write in the due back under the previous due date so you could look back and remember to return them before you collected fines. That doesn’t happen any more in the big libraries (perhaps it still does in smaller places? I really don’t know), so all these borrowing cards were being tossed. But as I was collecting them into a ‘throw out’ pile, I realised that only one side had been written on. Ideas started forming…and then this happened.

I had recently been given an old Scrabble set that was falling apart, so the tiles were sitting in a bag, waiting to be used. I thought combining them would be fun, and it didn’t take long, didn’t use much brain power or energy, and I think it looks pretty neat. So! Here’s what I did.

Super easy. I just laid out the cards on the canvases, glued them down with normal glue, though thinking about it PVA, ModPodge or something similar would have been better, thought of a little something to put on it (as far as I know, that quote is from my head…and I can’t seem to find it anywhere else…but let me know if I’m delusional), and glued the Scrabble tiles onto one of the canvases. Boom. Done.

As you can see, I didn’t actually hang these where I would actually have them…but I didn’t to show you what they looked liked. I found a spare wall in our house, but when I have my own house one day, then I will put them up for real. But you kinda get the idea. Sorry about the average-as pictures. No excuses really (okay, so there was so little light in the study, and it was all horrible and my camera was being dumb and I was tired and ….).

I really like reusing old things that are meant to be thrown out, and turning them into something new.