help! what should we do with this target?
My boyfriend and his friend went to a shooting range last week when we were in Vegas. Seeing as how I have zero interest in guns, I chose to skip the outing and go shopping instead. He came home from his field trip happy as a clam with a couple of cell phone videos and this souvenir. I’m not sure why, but I totally dig it. I’m convinced it will make a cool piece of art for our apartment, but I haven’t figured out just what to do with it. Should we add some color and splatter paint it? Should we cut it up and rearrange the pieces? What about a collage of sorts? This weekend I’m going to get creative and make something of it, but I’d love some inspiration before I get started. Any suggestions? — Erica P.
OMG..I would use it to decoupage a table top or the back of a sturdy wooden chair or photo it and print on cotton fabric for pillows…who would have thought guns would encourage creativity..lol
Frame it and pretty it up by attaching something sparkly or shiny on top of each of the holes…
I tore this idea out of ” Country Living” but haven’t done a thing with it yet : )
http://www.countryliving.com/crafts/projects/cd-case-craft-0909
I think the new 3M stuff would let you rearrange the pieces on the wall when the whimsy hits.
i cant believe you didnt go shooting!!?
I kept one of my targets as well, they just look too cool to throw away.
I was thinking about just simply putting it in a poster frame.
Nothing! I’d just tack it up as is. It’s so cool, it doesn’t need messing with.
I agree with Kristin! I just started shooting, and of course I saved my first (available) target & just tacked it up on a Hoosier cabinet in the kitchen.
Turns out I’m an OK shot with a .22, but a shotgun, well, that one scared me!
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my husband went to the shooting range last year for the first time and i could not bear to throw it away for quite a while either. there was just something strangely beautiful and nostalgic about the target sheet. i hung it up next to my daughter’s artwork on a metal clothesline type thing i got from ikea. was quite a conversation piece!
I made lightboxes out of my first targets- you can even put colored paper behind the holes so the light shines through all pretty:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/donnak/1470323736/
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