My Crazy Junk Art Kitchen Cabinets

I got bored with my mis-matched ugly oak cabinets and one day just started gluing stuff to them and still haven't stopped! Actually, I sanded and painted a base coat of yellow and green on this door first, but I didn't care for the results.

My kitchen is a work in progress. I go through a LOT of glue - mostly Elmer's white glue (the "school" glue is too thin).

Most of my junk is actually junk, but I did buy the little fork from a scrap-booking store because it was so cute and cheap. The heart is a piece of broken jewelry.

Garage sales, thrift shops, and friends are great resources for interesting "junk." Now I look at junk mail differently, searching for interesting art, colors, and words to cut out for free. I also hoard teeny free trinkets, keys, stickers, scrapbook paper, playing cards, broken jewelry, game pieces and all kinds of stuff.

Our cat broke one of my favorite teacups, so it ended up on this cabinet door, as well.

I stuck the broken edges into a piece of styrofoam with tons of white glue and kept building stuff around it to keep it secure. Once dry, I glued the back of the foam to the cabinet.

It's always easier to work flat, when gluing heavier things. If you want to try something like this, unscrew the doors from the cabinets and set them down on a table until glue and paint are completely dry.

My Blocks Cabinet - Decorated with strange little domino-like blocks, which were a yard sale find.

This was the second cabinet I did. I glued the blocks on one by one (without a plan) and added a metal scrapbooking charm that says "create." I consider this door complete. I like the simplicity.

My "Metropolis Cafe" cabinet. I like the partial cat face on this one. This is decorated with mostly ripped paper, glue and beads. It helps to put a few 3-dimensional objects on, for interest, I think.

I came upon this cool site and I love making goodies to print for my junk art. The site is http://www.mycoolsigns.net/en/flickr