Leftover materials = New wall art!

Hellllllloooo again!  I just finished another fun wall project!  If there is one thing you will learn about me, or have already learned about me, it's that I HATE bare walls.  I think every wall should have SOMETHING.  You definitely don't want to over do it, keep things simple, but do something!  We have a space in between our eat-in kitchen and our living room.  I already have a nice little console table there, but the wall above the table was pretty bare.  This spot is important because as soon as you walk in the front door and look directly down the hallway, you will see this wall.  Here it is, bare and boring.  I forgot to take a picture of it completely bare, so you'll see on the left hand side the startings of my project...

I decided to use some of my left over mouldings from a previous project and put them to good use.  First, I measured what I wanted on the wall.  Then I just simply nailed in the moudlings into a rectangle.  Then I painted the inside of it white (using some left over paint).  

 

And that's what we got!  Next was also easy & FREE.  I had 3 left over frames from my previous wall paper art project that use to hang over our couch and decided to use those.  I printed 3 FREE printables from Sprik Space and slipped them right in to my frames (I have used her free printables before, seen here).  I had some left over ribbon from my scrap booking so I decided to attach some simple black ribbon to the back and give it the illusion of it hanging from some door knobs.  That's right, I said door knobs.  This is where the only cost came in.  I went to Hobbs Lobbs and bought three door knobs.  Hobbs Lobbs has TONS of different knobs ranging in all different prices.  Mine were $2.99 a piece totaling: $9.00!

Here is the final product:

 

All I did was nail/screw the door knobs into the wall and the photos are actually hanging on nails.  The ribbon is just "resting" on the knobs. :)

 

I'm in love!  It just makes the wall look so yummy!!  Here is a view from the front door:

 

Umm, please excuse my son's blocks on the floor.... So you can see that you will notice it as soon as you walk in.

 

Ta-Da!!!  Here is the total cost break down:

• Moulding - Free (left over)
• White paint - Free (also left over)
• Frames and prints - Free!
• 3 Door knobs - $9.00

There you have it folks, another inexpensive way to dress up your walls.  Even if you did have to buy the moulding, it is CHEAP. $2.09 for 8 feet.  Total for my project: $9.00!!

Thanks again for reading! :)

FREE Printable Art

Well who doesn't like the word "FREE"?  I found this awesome website this morning where you can print free art and graphics.  It's 100% legal and this blogger has tons of options to choose from.  I chose the word "LOVE" to print out in 6 different ways.  Also, I printed them out on 5x7 glossy photo paper just to look a little bit more fancy.  If you do not have a photo printer, no problem!  Just print them on regular ole' paper. 

Since I am re-stylin' my guest room I needed some art to display in the room.  I made a trip to Ikea yesterday and bought some of the essentials I needed for the room.  Well I picked up these:

These were $1.99 for TWO frames in one pack.  So I got 3 packs (for you math people, that = 6 frames total). :)  All I did was print the art I wanted, seen here:

I then laid them out on the desk, strategically of course

Then put them in their new homes! :)

See??  They look great and the best part is, they were free!  I have purchased everything I needed (I think) for the new guest room.  Today I would like to start painting, but I am dealing with this very upset child, seen below:

Not sure why he is so grumpy today!  Painting may not happen if he won't cooperate! :)  Maybe during nap time...Anywhoo, go visit this awesome site and print yourself some new FREE art!!

Thanks for reading!

Above the head board art

Lately I have been obsessed with Craigslist.org.  I have the app on my phone and I am constantly looking to see what's been posted and what kind of treasures I can find and change!  Well, I found a head board that is faux leather and a rich brown color that goes along with our current furniture.  He was asking $75 and I paid $70! Whoop! :)  $5 off is a good deal, right?? Anyways, I am totally in love with it!!  It is so pretty and it's what I've been looking for.  A big thanks to my hubby for working all night then coming home at 7:30 a.m. and staying awake until 12 to watch Liam so I could go pick it up. :)  Good man!

The past couple days I have really looked around for something to put over our beautiful head board.  Done some research to see what other people have and finally decided on DIY art (duh, what else would I do?!).  I talked to my bestest friend Sarah, and she was telling me about her friend who bought a couple cheap canvas's and painted them with some stripes (using painters tape).  What a good idea! Stripes are awesome, but not really for the theme of our room.  So I decided I wanted to use 4 canvas' and luckily I already had 2.  Off to Hobby Lobby I go with my little mans. :)  I got a pack of 2 canvas's for $7.99!  Whooo!!  I decided to put some of the vinyl art on the canvas's.  I was also going to paint them the lightest shade of green that is also in our room (score, free paint!).  Anywhooo, looked at all the vinyl art they had and ultimately thought we need something circular to break up all the straight edges.  So I got these beautiful flower looking thingy's in grey-ish, silver-ish and black.  Here they are:

I think they are super cute!  These by the way were only $10!  They are usually $20 but since Hobby Lobby is AWESOME, they were 50% off!  Can't beat that.

Here are the simple steps:

1. Paint your canvas any color you want
2. Let them dry for a little bit (you don't have to wait too long since canvas's dry really quick)
3. Now, the FUN part!  Getting these little sticky guys on to your canvas!  

Just press firmly and they will stick just fine.  Here was my problem...

These little guys would stick together!!  Ugh, it was so annoying.  But after a little time and patience... I got it to work! :) Here is what it ended up looking like.  Now remember the color I chose is kind of hard to see with the camera, but its a very light green called "Celery Ice".

Here they are all nice and hung up above our head board:

So.....What do you think??  I am loving it! :)  It really gives the wall some length and really draws your eye to the bed, which is the whole point since I LOVE our new head board.  So there you have it! 

$7.99 - 2 canvas's
$10.00 - Vinyl wall art
                                       
$17.99 TOTAL!

For less then $20 you get a beautiful above the head board art piece.  Thanks for reading again!