Turn sporting event tickets into framed "art" ~ Madigan Made { simple DIY ideas }

Madigan made. . . sports ticket art.

Remember my post last month about personalized art?

Well, this art project is very personal to Mr. Madigan. It is for our sports-themed basement.

I already mentioned a few projects I completed for the basement. Remember the golf ball art? And the "bronzed" baseball trophy turned statue? And the sports subway art?

Here's one more sports project. Hopefully these frames will not overwhelm the theme?

Ever since I have known my husband, he saved all his golf score cards and any ticket to a sporting event. He knew that some day he would want to display them, maybe in a media room or basement. I came up with these frames as a way to meet that wish.

These tickets just prove that you can frame anything and it could be art. (if that is what you want to call this!)

Want to make one of these yourself? Well, first you will need:

A sports fanatic husband (who loves to golf and is often invited to sporting events by friends and family)
Many, many, many sports tickets and golf score cards (Mr. Madigan collected them for 10+ years.)
Adhesive (scrapbook glue dots/tabs would work well)
Large empty picture frames (I like the ones from IKEA. They are large and come with mats already.)
Poster board

First, cut your poster board to about the size of the glass.

Open the frame and using a pencil, draw an outline of the mat opening onto the poster board. Use that line as a guide for laying out your tickets.

You could lay out your pattern before adhering anything. But I just start in one corner and work my way across. Use the adhesive to secure the corners of the ticket to the poster board.

Try to alternate the type and look of each ticket and avoid too many of one kind next to each other. Carefully overlap the tickets when needed. You may need to trim off some of the tickets (I also trimmed down some of the golf score cards, too).

After you've covered the entire mat area, pop it in the frame. Could not be easier!

I love this project because once Mr. Madigan collects enough tickets to fill another one, I can just go and buy another frame at IKEA. (Unless IKEA ever changes their frame selection! Hopefully that will not happen.)

I slowly made these displays over the past several years. I made six total frames for our basement (one just recently).

Here are four more of them below.

I bet you could do this with other types of tickets...

For your music lover: Concert tickets?

For your theater buff: Broadway show tickets?

For your roller coaster fanatic: Amusement park tickets?

It really is a great way to save and display a memory.

The sporty basement is getting there. I'm waiting on one more piece of furniture and another small project.

Once the whole room is finished, I promise to share!

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Update Dec 2010: Since this is one of our favorite projects this year (hubby's especially), I will be adding it to the CSI Project's Fav Project Linky: