DIY Wood-Burned Salad Servers

DIY Wood-Burned Salad Servers with personalized Woodland Bliss favor tags and labels from Evermine {www.evermine.com}
This project comes with a warning. Not that wood burning pen tools are very hot and can burn you (although that is true and worth remembering). Not that your finished project needs special care (it doesn’t). No, the warning is that wood burning is addictive! Once you get the hang of it, you are going to hunt down wood to decorate.

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DIY Wood-Burned Salad Servers with Woodland Bliss personalized favor tags from Evermine {www.evermine.com}
These salad servers make a great gift. It takes relatively inexpensive wooden spoons and turns them into a unique showpiece. The wood burning tool set that I have is similar to this one. It comes with interchangeable tips that can be used for wood burning, soldering, and cutting stencils, plastics or Styrofoam, and more. I spent some time practicing with it to see how much pressure to apply and what speed to burn the wood. Before you start decorating anything with a wood burning pen, spend a little time getting used to the feel of it and practice your design.

DIY Wood-Burned Salad Servers
Recipe Type: Craft
Author: Stephanie Rose
Ingredients
  • [url href=”http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005P1TRAS/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B005P1TRAS&linkCode=as2&tag=gardther-20&linkId=HEF7IIU4P7W4G64F” target=”_blank”]Wood burning pen set[/url]
  • [url href=”http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006Z4LXII/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B006Z4LXII&linkCode=as2&tag=gardther-20&linkId=CQ5UFPBQ3JOQ5OEG” target=”_blank”]2 wood rice ladles[/url]
  • Pencil
Instructions
  1. [img src=”https://bdn.evermine.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/saladservers1.jpg” width=”680″ height=”453″ class=”alignnone size-full” title=”saladservers1″]
  2. First, choose some wooden spoons that would make good salad servers. I found wooden rice ladles that were just the right size for the project. They are the same as in [url href=”http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006Z4LXII/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B006Z4LXII&linkCode=as2&tag=gardther-20&linkId=CQ5UFPBQ3JOQ5OEG” target=”_blank”]this set[/url].
  3. [img src=”https://bdn.evermine.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/saladservers2.jpg” width=”680″ height=”680″ class=”alignnone size-full” title=”DIY Wood-Burned Salad Servers”]
  4. Ready? Ok, let’s get started by plugging in the wood burning pen to preheat it.
  5. Draw the design you would like to burn on the wooden spoon with the pencil. I used the design on the Woodland Bliss labels for inspiration.
  6. [img src=”https://bdn.evermine.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/saladservers3.jpg” width=”680″ height=”1020″ class=”alignnone size-full” title=”DIY Wood-Burned Salad Servers”]
  7. Follow the instructions on the wood burning pen to burn the design into the wood. For this project I used the pen tip. I burned the lines and outlined the leaves first.
  8. [img src=”https://bdn.evermine.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/saladservers4.jpg” width=”680″ height=”453″ class=”alignnone size-full” title=”DIY Wood-Burned Salad Servers”]
  9. Then I used the tip to burn smaller leaves on the stems. Finally I used the side of the pen to rub the wood until it turned a bit darker and filled in the leaves.
  10. [img src=”https://bdn.evermine.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/saladservers6.jpg” width=”680″ height=”909″ class=”alignnone size-full” title=”DIY Wood-Burned Salad Servers”]
  11. Add some graphical elements to the handle if you wish and then give the salad servers a wash with soap and water to remove any leftover pencil marks.
  12. [img src=”https://bdn.evermine.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/saladservers11.jpg” width=”680″ height=”1020″ class=”alignnone size-full” title=”DIY Wood-Burned Salad Servers”]
  13. Tie them together with some string and a kitschy [url href=”https://www.evermine.com/tags/” target=”_blank”]tag[/url], add a personal [url href=”https://www.evermine.com/labels/” target=”_blank”]label[/url], and now these are ready to give to someone special!

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Stephanie Rose is a gardener who lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada, where she has grown over 100 edibles, 400 perennials, and countless other plants in her small urban yard; a hobby that continues to grow with each season. Stephanie writes DIY garden projects, yummy recipes and crafty goodness at Garden Therapy where she hopes you will find something to inspire you to get outside for a little, well, garden therapy.


3 Comments

  2. […] Decorating the cutlery makes cooking and eating more cheerful, and the easiest way is painting or washi taping it. Another but more difficult way is to burn the wooden cutlery. You’ll need a wood burning pen set, 2 wood rice ladles, a pencil. First, choose some wooden spoons that would make good salad servers. Draw the design you would like to burn on the wooden spoon with the pencil. Follow the instructions on the wood burning pen to burn the design into the wood. Burn the lines and outline the leaves first. Then use the tip to burn smaller leaves on the stems. Continue reading the tutorial here. […]

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