I saw this pin on Pinterest and thought it was neat because it could be personalized to the people who ordered it.
It wasn't until I came across this gallery wall explanation at Our Humble A{bowe}d that I thought about actually doing anything with the pennies.
Here's her picture of what caught my eye:
I sorted through our mound of pennies to find ones with everyone's birthdays. When I found them all, I decided to try and clean them up a little by using plain old ketchup.
After a couple of go-rounds, they were nice and shiny. Or shinier than they had been, anyhow. The only downside was that my hands were ketchup scented all night, no matter how many times I washed them.
Then, I just glued them in a vertical line onto a scrap piece of scrapbook paper with Aleene's Tacky Glue.
While they were drying, I found another piece of scrapbook paper that I thought looked good. It also had the added benefit of having a pattern with straight lines so I could line up my penny row without a whole lot of measuring when I got that far. Work smarter, not harder. Yep.
Once I cut that paper to fit in the 5x7 frame, I set the penny row on it and taped the top and bottom of the two papers together. The last step was to put it all together in the frame.
Ta-da! Another easy project!
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