This is the kids bathroom. This is kind of a funny angle, you are seeing the reflection in the mirror. This is just tissue paper. I used wallpaper paste to make it stay on and put a sealer coat over that. I have had it in there for about 5 years and it has held up. I painted blue lines in the shape of a square as well. Below you can see where I got my inspiration. It sure wakes you up in the morn! I'm actually ready for something a little more subdued.
You can find inspiration anywhere. I was walking down the isle one day at Walmart and saw this bag and fell in love with it and immediately knew where I wanted to duplicate it.
This is a picture I made on the opposite wall, simple... made with scrapbook paper.
Another simple idea, cups I found for a dollar and covered with paper. This gives me an opportunity to see the papers I love more often.
Nothing original here. I like to make cards with paper, but I had to show how I display them, and old shutter works perfectly!
I am making this for my church. These are just wooden letters that I have modpodge with tissue. Great idea for a kids room, you can do all kinds of things like this an old ginger jar lamp, letter's to their name, this method works on anything!!!
I got this at Marshall's, it's a tic tac toe board. It suggest you put pictures in it but I wanted to use scrapbook papers, yet another opportunity to get to look at my favorite papers. If you can't find one of these I think the same thing could be done with a big picture frame. For the x & o's you could use buttons, or probably find wooden x & o's at the store. This sits on my coffee table, just adds a bit of whimsy to my room.
This is fruit I have had for a long time. (Don't those nutty bars make you hungry?) I forgot to take a picture of what it looked like at first, just regular old fruit, nothing special. I wanted to make it look different so I thought I would crackle paint it, first I spray painted it with ORB and then put the crackle on and then off white acrylic. I wasn't that excited about it and the sponge I used kinda fell apart as I was using it, so it really looked bad. Luckily I was able to wash it off. As I was washing it, I dropped the apple and now it has a nice crack in it! But no worries cover it up with paper! I took a lunch sack and crumpled it up and tore pieces and started modpodging it all over the fruit, overlapping it and slathering it with more modge podge. I love the look of this, so cheap and now it looks like leather. I wrote the french word for the piece of fruit on it and stuck it on top these cute little containers I got from the dollar store, wrapped a black and white checkered ribbon around it and wa~la there you have something for nothing! Side note... I got this topiary at a garage sale last weekend for $2.00, so cheap, but fabulous!!!
Here is the final vignette. I thought I was giving these away, but I might need to keep them for myself!
Up close and personal...
Come a little closer... actually I don't care for my handwriting but no worries when I go to my niece's house she has one of those new fancy machines that cuts out lettering so I'll just cover up what I have done and add her fancy letters! So find something in your house that needs a little papering, (besides the cat box)and show me what you come up with!
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Thanks so much for showing us all the unique ways you've used paper to brighten up your home!
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