Cindy Piccoli shows how to create a mini-screen using a foam core board and acetate for a stained-glass look. The screen is divided into three sections and can be used for covering up something or simply to add height, color and texture to a table display.
Steps:
- Cut a 1/2-inch thick foam core board into three equal parts with a craft knife. (Piccoli's boards each measured 20" x 30".)
- Iron and cut fabric (i.e., pillow case) into three equal parts with pinking shears.
- Make a template from paper; Piccoli used circles, squares and triangles. Place each template piece over fabric and foam core and trace.
- Mark foam core with pin, tracing the template circle and cutting into the foam core.
- Trace circle from the template you created on the fabric with a pencil or pen.
- Pull off fabric.
- Circle can be popped out of foam board.
- Pinch fabric in the center of the circle and cut straight back creating triangles leaving the base of each triangle attached to the fabric.
- Fold back each triangle through the circle in the foam core, and glue all the way around creating a circle (figure A).
- Glue acetate gel, lighting gels, cellophane wrapping paper, or pure acetate on the back of the board covering the circles.
- Glue ribbon onto the edges.
- Tape the decorated foam core boards together.
- Flip again and cover the masking tape with velvet cording. This allows the boards to be flexible for a screen or table top.
- Place a lamp behind the screen for a beautiful stained-glass look.
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