Cheap Baby Room Art
I'm in the process of creating a white framed art collage for baby Fisher's room. So far every piece was found at goodwill. I like to go look every couple of weeks and pick up things that are 1/2 off that week. These 3 pieces were bought together.
The Inspiration:
My Art:
All 3 frames were purchased at goodwill for 1.50 each. They were plain wood with old ugly art inside. I remover the art and painted them white with cheap acrylic paint. The background of each art is scrapbook paper.
On top of the scrap book paper I hot glued some remnant fabric that was used in other parts of the baby room.
I purposely fray the edges of the fabric to get a more vintage look.
The decorated bottle caps are made by cutting out little circles of scrapbook paper and hot gluing them onto a bottle cap. I save all bottle caps in a jar. It seems like such a waste to buy bottle caps at the craft store when beer bottle caps are everywhere.
Painted the yellow with two different acrylics paints. Dry. Stamped on the Little Wonder stamp ($1 acrylic stamp from Michael's) Paint over the stamped lines to make the image stand out more.
I used 2 different scrapbook papers for the background. The newspaper looking page is torn and glued onto the polka dot page. I painted the bird with acrylic paints following these
step by step pics.
Bella's First Birthday!
This project was surprisingly easy and inexpensive. I picked out an unfinished, open back frame from Michaels (every few weeks all of the frames are 50% off) and a thick foam posterboard. I cut the posterboard to fit into the frame and hot glued on some felt.) I also painted the frame. I should have sprayed the painted frame with some sealant but I forgot. I took the frame and felt-covered posterboard back to Michaels with my reciept and they permently attached the 2 for free. They will also attach a bracket to hang the frame free of charge. The rest of the project was cutting out felt pieces to play with on the board. I used black puffy paint to decorate some of the pieces. 
When I was all finished I painted a hobby lobby cardboard box the same color as the frame, filled it with all of the felt shapes, and tied it with a ladybug ribbon. Voila!
Important note: Use a flannel fabric! Use cloth diapers! The awesome thing about these burp cloths is the patterned side will stick to mommy's clothes if you use a flannel fabric. The white side will absorb massive amounts of baby spit. Non-flannel burp clothes slide off the shoulder. Non-cloth diaper burp clothes don't absorb as much.
