Ribbons & Glue: Laundry Room Clothespin Wreath... Do you decorate your laundry room?
I totally would if mine was like big enough to turn around in. My sister has a Fab laundry room. Like long racks and counter space Fabness. Since her Birthday was last week, I made her a Laundry Room Clothespin Wreath inspired by her actual room and what really goes on in there...Wash. Dry. In my laundry room, it's- wash, dry, dry again {maybe even a 3rd dry} to get out the wrinkles and possibly, a fold may occur. Laundry Room Clothespin Wreath I used Mod Podge to adhere the patterned paper on the clothespins, clipped the clothespins onto a wire wreath and used my Silhouette to design and cut out the font and outlines which was inspired by another cut file. Polka Dot Circle Tree. Like many others, I’m a sucker for tree themed wall art.
Especially the fun silhouette type trees that are in style right now. The leaves are left up to interpretation using all sorts of shapes, such as hearts, shamrocks, circles and more. Sometimes ideas just pop in to my head, as was the case with this polka dot circle tree. I was browsing the web and came across a tree. Diy Sunburst Mirror {Tutorial} *This post may contain affiliate links I love this mirror from Layla Grace, but at $308 a pop this sunburst just wasn’t in the budget.
Actually one mirror is more than the entire budget. 99C STORE: Silver Antique Mirror. I challenge myself recently to invent a way to make a silver leafed mirror without the cost and trouble of actually silver leafing something.
I got this round mirror at the 99c store to experiment but then quickly realized that this was the PERFECT mirror for a project like this. So here you are my creative friends.
Painting with Watercolors, Glue and Salt. Ever since our adventure with “secret message watercolor painting” the munchkin has been enamored with his watercolors.
So this week we decided to mix things up a bit by painting with watercolors, clear Elmer’s glue and salt. Isn’t the final result neat? The idea for using glue and salt with watercolors came from Pinterest. I kept seeing pins with notes about sprinkling salt on wet watercolors or using glue to create designs on top of the paint. Finally I saw this post about combining the two techniques and I was like, that’s it, we’re doing this. As you can see in the photo above, the munchkin was super into this activity. We used canvases for our paintings because I had some around, but watercolor paper would work equally well.
After setting everything up the process was simple and fun! So, kinda like cloud watching, the munchkin was all about seeing shapes in the blobs of glue. After adding the glue the final step was sprinkling salt around on the painting. Frequently Asked Questions. DIY Chrysanthemum Clock from Plastic Spoons. Pinterest Challenge: AZ Love / Nail and String Tribute to the Grand Canyon State. So I found Curiously Wrought's work through her Etsy on Pinterest the other day--how cute are these?!
Click through the link below to check out my step-by-step tutorial: So although mine isn't PERFECT like hers are, I seriously love how it came out! I chose to go with an orange backdrop keeping the Grand Canyon in mind and how much I love those vibrant, orange sunsets! Which of the states would you make? And then it made it to my wall next to my desk! The finished product: Grandma's Garden- Crayon Art. It's hard to find a good present for our grandma (actually, she's my mom, but Anya's grandma).
"I have everything," she says always. Ok, we will not buy a present, we will make it! My mom has a beautiful garden in Russia. She grows everything there: potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots, cabbage, apples, strawberries, black and red currants, gooseberries... and it's not all. Her favorites are flowers. My mom's birthday is in February. To make a piece of art, we used canvas (12"x12"), crayons (we used 3 boxes to pick only greens), artificial flowers, glue gun and hair drier. Turn canvas upside down so crayons are pointing down. Get Crafty With Maps. Toilet Paper Art « This Handmade Circus. TP Tube Wall Art. If you filed away the idea of making cardboard wall decor after seeing Suzy Myers' surprising faux iron scrollwork, now is probably the time to be saving up a supply of toilet paper tubes.
I noticed a commercial for the Scott's Naturals tube-free variety a few nights ago, and realized cardboard rolls may soon be a thing of the past. The ad is a wonder of tp roll skyscrapers and such... wish I could share it with you here, but alas, no one has posted it on YouTube yet. (But it seems even tp rolls can stir up controversy, as you'll see in this video!) Leaving that behind, I didn't have to look far to find lots of inspiring cardboard tube decorating ideas. Here's a terrific family tree idea and tutorial by a young mom who blogs from Alaska at No Dime Design. From The How-To Gal, turquoise wall art that she rightly calls trash to treasure.