DIY: Swatch Art

I love paint! Ok, that's an understatement, I am obsessed with paint. So obsessed infact that I have pretty much every swatch from Lowe's and Home Depot. It's so embarrasing going in just to pick up some swatches, hey, they're FREE!

So having so many swatches I felt inspired to make something with them, something fun, so I made some Art for Nolan's Room. Yes, more Art, I love Art!

Pick your colors.

Than cut out the swatches any size you desire.

Makesure you plan out your pattern before you start taping them together.

Than get some double sided tape.

Once it's all taped, it should look like this from the back.

And the front.

  So you wil need to cut the excess paper sticking out.

Almost done!

Done!

 Than Frame, and hang!

I absolutely love this piece, the pattern, the colors, it's so whimsical, yet chic! This is going on Nolan's Gallery.

This Post is part of Link Party on the Winthrop Chronicles blog, Funky Polkadot Giraffe,

DIY: Crayon Art

I saw this on Pintrest and decided to give it a try, it looked so creative and cute. Perfect for Nolan's room. I think it turned out pretty cool.

Tada!!

DIY: Cool Map

So my friend Sam called me one day and told me about this really cool DIY art project she was working on as a gift to give to her husband for their 1st. year anniversary. Since the first year is the year of paper for wedding years, she decided to make this super cool Map!

I loved her idea so much I decided I would do the same thing.

Here is a quick tutorial on how you can also have a cool map.

Supplies:

-Cardstock

-Tape

-Map ( you can google any map you want than print it out)

-paper cutter

-A lot of patience (this project all together took me about 3 hours, of course I did it all in about 1 week because it's very time consuming and also it takes a lot of patience, so I did it in little bit time frames. )

Sam made a map of Pittsburgh, as you can see, hers was super more intricate than mine.

She did a great job!

Here is mine!

I decided I am going to make a different one everytime we move to a different city. I have to make one more, because so far we've lived in two cities. I love the way it turned out, it looks so cool!

DIY Coral Art

I have wanted Coral Art for a long time now, but everytime I find one I really like, I really don't like the price and cannot afford it.

By Nature Posters

$84.99

 Fortunately, I was able to increase my chances of having my beach inspired coral art by making it myself. Here's my DIY/High Low Project for those who want to exercise their drawing skills.

By IKEA

I purchased two of these awesome frames at $2.99 each

Used my good old Colored Pencils

Than I used my artistic abilities by looking up Real coral photos online and the end result is this!

Red Coral Art $4.00

"Love Too" Project

I first saw this beautiful painting on Better Homes and Garden April 2010 issue, and I absolutely fell in love with it. I later on saw it again on Sex and the City movie in Carries apartment. Loved it again, so I looked it up online and found out it was actually not a painting, but a Needlepoint canvas by Paul Smith, oh my gosh, did you see the price on it? $3,125.00 So of course I gave my hopes up.

Luckily, my clever and artistic mentality told me not to give up, so I decided to make my own "Love Too" wall hanging. Except I know not how to Sew, let alone Needlepoint Stitching. I do however love to draw, so I decided to give my artistic hands a try, after not drawing for 5 years, I decided, why no? I love this! So all I needed was, awesome set of drawing pencils, I used a B pencil, coloring pencils, and nice thick drawing paper. There was one little detail that I did think about, I cannot draw it exactly the same nor color it identical, because of course, copyright, or patent rights, so all I did was change a few things of my own. Here's what I came up with.

First of, instead of drawing LOVE, I drew AMOR, which means love in Spanish! than I changed some colors of the letters, and very intricate designs of the vines. I also made it smaller, therefore it is my own now! The project alone, took me about 7 hours to complete, of course I didn't do it all it one day, with a 6 month old teething, and expecting more attention, sick husband home because of food poisoning, and messy house to clean, it took me about 1 week 1/2, but all together it came to about 7 hours. Check it out!
Ok, I'm still not done, I still need to get a great frame. Once I frame it up, than I will post the end result! Hope this inspired you to be creative, and don't let the dollar signs stop you from being able decorate the way you dream of at night!

Ok I finally framed it after all this time. What do you think? It's way smaller than the actual size, but I really like the way it turned out.

VOILA!!!