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How would you convert a nice stack of dice into an art piece?
Hello Community!
Sice you are the most creative people I know I think you'll be able to help me:
I used to collect dice and I have a nice stack of them. I'd like to turn them into a piece of art without destroying them but I don't know what would look nice on my wall.
Any ideas?
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4 years ago
Collage?
4 years ago
I have actually seen it turned into jewelry.
Reply 4 years ago
yeah, it is a popular iten in jewelerry plus I own a hella lot scrap boardgame paws, whatya think, would I be able to like turn them into jewelerry and post it on Etsy?
Reply 4 years ago
that sounds like a great idea
4 years ago
Yes, I have seen people make jewlery out of them & wall scuplture comes to mind. send me a picture of the dice, renewalof48@yahoo.com or on this page.
4 years ago
Clean out a long fluorescent bulb and put them in the glass tube. Run a strand of mini LEDs through it to light them up.
Reply 4 years ago
I like this one really much! what do you think, is it hard to remove the "cloudyness" of the bulb and is it hard to obtain a worn out one?
Reply 4 years ago
I've cleaned out one of these bulbs before and the white frost is some kind of powder coating that washes right out. Maybe check a thrift store for an old under counter mount light. It's likely to still have the bulb in it.
5 years ago
Instead of a shelf, could you make a very shallow shadowbox? It'd be like a picture frame but with 1/2" of space between the glass and the back.
Reply 4 years ago
yeah that was my idea, too but I had to realize my dice are soo fdirrecent in size & shape it'd probably end up looking bad. But maybe should I do this with a portion of them? Will think about it!
Reply 4 years ago
That makes sense... Another idea: if you went more 3d, maybe a glass clouche would look cool:
https://www.restorationhardware.com/catalog/produc...
You could almost build a sconce-like shelf for it if you wanted to keep it on a wall.
5 years ago
I don't know how many you have, but if you zoom out quite a lot you can do something with the greyscale they generate (one eye is pretty white, 6 eyes is pretty grey). Some kind of mosaic (there are some online tools to help you design it).
Reply 4 years ago
they are soo diff in sizes and shape it wouldn't work out :(
5 years ago
Fix a batten to your wall as a narrow shelf, then stack the dice on that, in an aesthetically pleasing manner.
Use small pieces of Blu Tack* to affix dice directly to the wall.
Double-sided tape should hold them together in an invisible, reversible manner as well.
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-Tack
Reply 5 years ago
I used to have blu-tackked dice on my wall but they stained it pretty badly plus half of them fell down pretty often, so blu-tack is not the perfect solution.
Are you sure dobule-sided tape would hold them without a damage?
Reply 5 years ago
I can't be 100% certain, as it depends on the quality of the tape and the exact nature of your dice, but I would do it with my dice.