As a Christmas present, I surprised my 11-year-old daughter with a partial room-makeover.
She already had a brightly colored, striped bedspread, so I used some of those colors to make her some wall art. Her last room-makeover took me several days to paint her walls with lots of polka dots and inspirational sayings. She really liked it, but it was also a whole lot of work.
Now, we live in a different house and the walls are (boring) white. Yuck! Yuck! BUT, I didn't have the time to paint the walls yet I still wanted to get a similar result. So, I came up with a quick and inexpensive way to transform her room.
One was a large piece of burlap (about the size of a large poster). I painted big circles on it, and hung it with tacks--just like you would hang a poster in a child's room. As you can tell by the above photo, you don't have to be an artist to paint circles. Anyone can do this. :0)
The other was a little more complicated. I had a box of 24 metal wall tiles that I've had for a while--just in case I wanted to use them for an art project. I'm sure you can find these at any do-it-yourself store: Lowe's, Home Depot, etc. I then cut squares of material in the same 3 colors/patterns: blue plaid, solid pink, and floral. The squares of material were just a little bit larger than the tiles. I then sprayed a square of material with TACKY SPRAY ADHESIVE, laid the tile upside down on top of the material, then folded the material around the tile. Once all the tiles had material around them, I used the little adhesives that came with the tiles to stick the squares onto a piece of wood I had "laying around." It already had the wall hanging mechanism attached.
Above, is a photo of the materials I used. (I threw away the empty bottle of blue paint so couldn't put it in the photo.)
Above Hannah's bed I bought a print with lots of bright colors at Hobby Lobby to fit a frame I already had at home. The print was 50% off (don't you LOVE Hobby Lobby's weekly discounts?) so, the print cost me roughly $6. You may not have a frame like this one just laying around your home, but you might have a frame of any size that you can use. Get the measurements, and buy an inexpensive print that fits! If the frame isn't the right color, while you're at the craft store, buy a bottle of paint. If you buy acrylic craft paint, you'll spend less than $1 for it.
So, there you have it: my daughter's Christmas surprise. :0) For these projects, I used so many things I already had: Tacky Spray, wall tiles, craft paint, picture frame, rectangular wooden piece, hot glue gun and glue, and 3 canvases. Here's what I had to purchase: material, burlap, and a print.
I hope I've inspired you to look around your home for some treasures that can be recycled into some new home decorations. And I hope that I've also inspired the creative person within you, who might be a little neglected because of fear--fear that says, "You must be a great artist in order to make wall art."
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