Happy Tuesday!
I don't know about you, but I am a Pinterest addict. Can't help it. It's on my desktop, my laptop, my IPAD. I have no shame, I honestly get joy from searching the pins. I can honestly say that I do make the recipes, and try the DIY projects that I am so obsessed with. So, here is one that I tweaked a little bit...
I have a weird sized wall in my kitchen that I always have trouble with. It has windows on both sides, but can be a focal point if you are standing in the kitchen. I wanted to do something with all the cool subway art that I keep seeing everywhere. I found these prints at this great blog:
L♥ve From Home: 'Tis the Season!
So, I sent them off to Costco and had them made in 5 x 7 (for a whopping $.39 each). I had some old 8 x 10 frames that were stacked in my hall closet ( from Ikea, Ribba frame )
I had painted over the original black frame with brown paint in their former life, so I set up shop and thought I should sand them before repainting them white.
I used my handy dandy "sham wow" to wipe them down and get all the sanding stuff off of them. Then, I broke out some left over white spray paint that I had from another project.
Well, I ran out of spray paint. So then, I opened up my craft box, and pulled out some white acrylic paint (which I thought would work better than the water based craft paint--it just sounded more official...."acrylic"....)
I finished painting them, and while they were drying, I traced the old matting (is that the right word?) from the frames onto green 12 x12 scrapbook paper that I had to make a contrasting border around the photos.
As I stood at my kitchen counter,
cutting butchering the traced picture border with my kitchen shears, my handsome and brilliant husband suggested that I just attach the picture to the top of the paper, and then just trace the outside border of the matting to size it. Since Costco cuts their pictures a lot straighter than i can cut with scissors, I decided to go with his plan. (see photo above).
Once the paint was dry, I put it all together-and it came out pretty darn good!
I hung the three on my wall---I probably could have done them larger, maybe 11x14 so the scale was better, but I already had the frames.
Grand total for project $1.56 + tax. :)
If I can do it-you can do it!
Kathy
