Weekend Art Project « The New Domestic. E made a painting this weekend! We’ve been wanting a large scale art-piece to go up on our dining room wall. We had a large framed photograph up but, at 26″ x 32″, it didn’t have the right scale for the room. We wanted to go big. Like, 60″ x 36″ big. Inspired by color field paintings, I made a sketch in Illustrator and we tried different color combinations til we were happy. Update: To complete the dining area, we painted a high chair red to add another splash of color to the room. Also, congrats to everyone who has been DIYing there own versions of the Weekend Art Project. If you love this style of geometric art, patterns and triangles visit our shop. Picture, Picture on the Wall... How to-sday . frame collage headboard. When we first moved into the new digs, I had grand plans to paint each room with some sort of bright, chipper color and lovely finish.
This, the guest room/my studio/my office was going to be bright white with blue-grey horizontal stripes. Lovely, right? Then come paint it for me. While I was waiting for you to all show up to paint, I decided the walls needed some 'bang.' I decided to give our platform bed the illusion of a tall, stately head board, complete with all the quirk and bizarre of my art collection.
Read on to find out how to do this without a straight edge, butcher paper, or a care in the world. Oh, and learn how not to do your hair. Oh, and if you're wondering where the art came from, it is Tina Crespo, Cricket Press, D.U.R.A., Katie Daisy, Mis Nopales Art, thrift shops, international travels, personal photos, and a few bits that I can't think of...
What You Need 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 6. 7. Oh, and that little stop-motion above is really neat, right? 8. Craft: Valentine's Day Wall Art. I loved how my Valentine's Day garland and wreath looked so I decided to make another Valentine's Day decoration. In our living room we have a big blank wall that is patiently waiting for us to finish the wall art we plan on hanging. I decided to use that space and try to make a simple, cheap wall art. Supplies: Card stock, pattern to print (I did sheet music), scissors, tapeCost: $0 (I already had all of the supplies) I started off by printing off sheet music. I printed two pages on each 8 1/2'' x 11'' sheet of paper. Then I found a heart shape that I liked (via google images). I cut out the hearts by hand - I'm very jealous of people with cricuts or other similar machines that do it for you. :-) I had originally planned on just taping the hearts to the wall (I was going for very simple wall art) but decided it might look neat if the hearts stood a little bit off of the wall.
Does that make sense? I printed the outline with the folding lines (light grey) onto card stock and cut them out. The Daily Telecraft: DIY: How to Create a Framed Button Artwork. Quilled E Monogram with Fringed Flowers. So I made a monogram for a friend who is turning 40 and requested a no gift policy – well, I'll still be able to say "I didn't buy anything. " I wanted to show the flowers bursting forth in different stages of bloom. The "moat" which corrals the quilled flowers ends up hiding the quilled base from most angles; tilting the blossoms on their sides doesn't hurt either. I designed each flower pattern and cut them digitally on the Silhouette.
I’ve just discovered Moxie Fab World through a reader’s post of an intricately quilled heart, by Sweet Spot Cards. Project 30 Week 30 – Circular Paint Chip Art. Happy Mother’s Day!! I am so excited, because with this post I will have successfully completed my 30x30x3 journey, and on time too! I couldn’t be happier with the projects I’ve completed, and I can’t wait to keep going with some new projects, and maybe some new features as well. For now I have some really fun new paint chip art, created from different sized circles. I know I’ve posted paint chip art before, but that technique was so different from this one I felt these pieces deserved their own post. All of these pieces are created from circles of three different sizes, 1 1/2″, 1″ and 1/2″.
I started experimenting with using a singular color palette, as you can see in this turquoise version, and I think it is a fun variation. This may not have been the project I was planning, but it certainly has quite a celebratory look (especially those small ones, they remind me of confetti!) To all the mother’s out there, Happy Happy Mother’s Day, and a lovely Sunday to everyone! Like this: Lansdowne Life: Repurposed paint chip artwork. With all the painting projects I've tackled in our house, my collection of paint chips has been growing and growing.
I wanted to re-use them in some way, so I decided to make a mosaic-style piece of artwork. We have a wall in our living room that had no art and not much color. All the decorating was happening on the other side of the room, leaving the room a little unbalanced, so something colorful was more than necessary. After gathering up paint chips from no less than four places around the house, I was amazed to discover that I had a nearly inch-thick stack.
This project is actually a slightly more sophisticated variation on a simple project I did way back in 2002. I punched out multi-hundreds of dime-sized dots. I had a piece of wood cut (approximately 11" x 32") and painted it a warm red. I started at the bottom of my wood panel, gluing down dots with Mod Podge and then putting more Mod Podge over the top, but that quickly got very messy. I love it! And now for a little contest! Intersecting Circles Wall Art Tutorial. Remember how I promised a fun paint chip project a few weeks ago? Well, here it is (finally)! It's more DIY art for us "non-artists", so I hope you have some bare space on your walls 'cause you're sure to want to make this. Yeah, it costs $129 at World Market.
My version cost about $3. Total. No joke. If you want to make one, here's what you'll need: one canvas in a size of your liking TONS of paint chips Mod Podge and a foam brush Lots of patience Saran wrap A book (I used the Complete Works of Shakespeare Volume 1, but you can use any book you like--lol) A template (Directions on making one follow) Ok, first let's talk technical stuff. If you're mathematically inclined, a picture like this may help you envision what we're trying to accomplish. Or, here's a simple way I came up with to make my own template--it's easier than it looks so please don't get scared now!
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Use your template and trace a it a bajillion times on a bajillion paint chips and cut those shapes out. Butterfly Specimen art from Spunky Junky {{tutorial}} Hello! Hello! Love Stitched stalkers readers! My name is Halsey and I am so happy to be here today. Don’t you just love Brittany’s blog? She totally cracks me up with her funny stories, her amazing tutorials, and I her keen eye for fashion! When I am not chasing my Punk around or lovin’ on my Hunk I run a lil’ blog called Spunky Junky. Today I am going to show you how to make a butterfly specimen box on the cheap…as in super, uber cheap. For this project I used: paint sample cards in coordinating colors from Lowe’s-FREE self-adhesive foam mount stickers a butterfly punch and a mounting board (aka the Costco cardboard insert so pictures can’t bend) FREE I tried to pick out paint sample cards that coordinated with the colors in my home. Once I cut out the butterflies I used the adhesive foam stickers to stick the butterflies to the mounting board.
Super cheap. Thanks Brittany for so letting me crash your pad today! Thanks for sharing Hasley! Button Monogram. This is a really COLORFUL & creative way to display your child’s initial. Super easy for sewers & crafters who have lots of extra buttons laying around. Gosh I LOVE buttons… Supplies needed: - Printer (to print out your letter) or a large letter stencil - Scissors - Cardstock (large enough to fit your frame) - Pen or Pencil - Adhesive, Scotch Tape Runner allows you to reposition buttons - Paper Piercer - Buttons and Brads - Frame without glass or shadowbox (this one is from IKEA) Click here for step-by-step directions to the entire project.
String Heart. Heirloom Button Art. When my Grandma passed away about a year ago, her granddaughters were able to chose some of her jewelry to keep and remember her by. I picked a couple pairs of earrings and a brooch that belonged to her mother, my great grandmother, and a tin full of really old buttons. I already had a few buttons that belonged to my dad's mom, so I was excited to have a collection from both sides of my family. I'm sentimental about family things, so I knew I'd want to do something with these old buttons rather than hide them away. My amazing sister, Ali, was visiting us this week and I thought this would be a fun project for us to tackle together. After Evie went back to bed, Ali and I got busy arranging the buttons on this interesting white burlap. I cut the fabric down to size and ironed it flat. The top row is green, then yellows/golds, two rows of whites and creams, blues, blacks/browns/purples and then reds/pinks.
Then we cheated and fabric glued all the buttons in place. Button art on the cheap. I love kitschy little home decor items/wall hangings, because a little color goes a long way to spice up a room. ESPECIALLY when you live in an apartment (hello Mod Podge Command Central) and you can’t paint the walls. I have a love affair with buttons; I would marry them if I could. I decided to spice up a boring wall in my room with this cute little piece, incorporating my very favorite buttons and, of course, Mod Podge. Here’s how to make it. Gather These Supplies Frame – mine is from the Dollar Tree Spray Paint or Acrylic PaintGloss Mod Podge Flat paintbrush Scrapbook paper – one sheet Buttons – as many as you want; I used 15 Craft glue Craft knife and mat Pencil or pen Let’s do this thing!
You are going to laugh, but I actually had this frame, spray painted Robin’s Blue, in my craft stash. Because I lost the back of my frame, I had to cut a frame back from a spare piece of cardboard. Lay your frame back down onto your sheet of scrapbook paper and trace. Project 6: Canvas Art « A Smith of All Trades. You don’t have to know how to sew to work with fabrics. I’m OK at sewing, but my machine is missing the pedal… Oops. Here’s a different way to use fabrics — no sewing involved! Like I said I few posts ago, I’ve gotten really into making what I like to call “canvas art.” Basically, I cover a piece of canvas in fabric or lace and add all sorts of embellishments to it.
In this post, I’ll show you how to make a basic piece of canvas art with no embellishments. First off, you need some kick ass fabric. Anyway, I found this beautiful black, white and silver fabric a month or so ago at a local fabric store on the cheap, so I snatched it up not really sure what I’d do with it. The silver is actually metallic, too. For this project, I’m using small canvases. Cut out your fabric so you can wrap it up and over the back edges of the canvas. You need a staple gun and a lot of staples for this next part. Line up the edge of the fabric with the inner most side of the canvas and staple away. Like this:
Project 21 Week 23 – Crayon Alphabet. I have been really excited about this project for a while, ever since I spotted it here. I thought this was the cutest idea, and immediately rushed off to research where I could find nice cheap shadow boxes and crayons. Flash forward a few weeks once I had assembled all my supplies, and this is what you get: I chose the letter B to start in honor of my little guy Basel, my adorable long-haired dachshund puppy. Not to mention, its just an interesting letter. I was debating whether to do a B or to make a Z, which is my default letter of choice in honor of Zipper8Design. But I decided to go with the B because I liked the curves. Basically I used Photoshop to create a template with my letter in pale gray. Then once I had the letter sized appropriately I printed it out, cut the paper to size for my shadow box (purchased at Michaels, though I have my eye on some square frames at Ikea) and started cutting up my crayons.
So go out and have some multi-colored fun today! Like this: Like Loading... Frame your own artwork. For a while now I have wanted to make an art piece of my own to place above our humble dining room table. The problem? I am no artist. That's right, sometimes crafty girls cannot paint or draw.. or it may just be me. Either way, I have created a fabulous piece of "art" using scrapbook paper, ribbon, fabric, cardstock, embellishments, and any other scraps you have laying around the house. It's beautiful and sophisticated, and I didn't have to use a paint brush! Do you want to make your own? Let's get started. What you need: Large Frame with the piece of glass insert (I got mine on sale at Hobby Lobby. Here we go! Here are some close-ups of the different types of textures I used.
Here is the end result. This project is a little time consuming, so mommies - plan accordingly! This is where the completed artwork will hang. Hope you try this fun project. And let your husband hang your framed artwork up. ;) Ciao bella, The Purple Carrot | purplecarrotkc.com: DIY Frame Key Holder. Time for my first official DIY post ever. Let me start off by saying I do not consider myself to be a crafty person, though I aspire to be one, ha. I have a mom who can do about anything crafty there is to do. Growing up, she managed a fabrics and crafts store, taught craft classes, sewed tons of our outfits, fixes band suits in high school, took in and hemmed prom dresses, etc etc. If you don’t believe me, she has a quilting blog to prove it! That being said, I hope at least a little bit of that is in my blood, and that someday it will come forth. But we will start simple. Very, very simple with a frame key holder, inspired by Pinterest. DIY Frame Key Holder Things you will need: A frame.
What to do: Take your frame and plan out where you’d like your hooks to be placed. Yes, it’s that easy! To some, they may not even be considered a DIY project due to it’s level of non difficulty, but it was a definite start for me. Now I need to get pinning and find my next project! Make Your Own Canvas Portrait!
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