Spooky String Art Wooden Plaques
String art is a fantastic way to create bold, graphic designs with a lot of texture and dimension. A spooky string art wooden plaque is a durable, high-quality craft that you can bring out year after year. Start with a solid wooden plaque, which you can sand and stain with a dark walnut finish or paint with a distressed white chalk paint. Print out a circular spider web template and tape it to the center of the wood. Using a hammer, tap small linoleum nails along the points of the template, ensuring they are all driven to the same depth and spaced evenly.
Once all the nails are in place, tear away the paper template. Tie a spool of white embroidery floss or metallic silver thread to the central nail and begin wrapping the thread from nail to nail, building the radial lines and then the concentric circles of the web. The physical depth created by the raised thread casting shadows onto the wood beneath gives this craft a stunning, three-dimensional quality that looks highly professional.