2 Types of Artwork {For FREE!}

 

Welcome to the latest post in the seemingly never ending project that has become my master bedroom! (Some of the other projects including The Patchwork Headboard are here, here and here). It's almost finished. I can't wait! 

I am trying to spend as little as possible to finish the room, and what's better than FREE? Nothing, right? 

Let's start with the watercolor paintings.

Oh, isn't that kid cute?!? I may be a little biased....

I'm sure you've seen these watercolor portraits from Grow Creative floating around. They're so cute, and as it turns out, super easy to do. Be sure to listen to her tip about picking the right picture, though. I started out with 4 different pictures of my little guy, but the others turned out looking a little too much like kids from another planet for my liking. No problem! I just did the same picture in four different colors.

How to do it for free? 

• Recycle some old frames. You can leave them as is or paint them like I did. Mine were originally black.
• You don't need fancy watercolor paints. I used some that were from a kids' art set I got when I was in high school a few (ok, over ten-yikes!) years ago. 
• I used some drawing/sketch paper I've had forever too. 

And now for the second type of artwork which involves one of my favorite things...paper! I have a slight paper obsession, so gathering supplies for this project was no problem for me. I was first inspired by this project from Creative Passage, and then this one from Simply Living inspired me to make it into a smaller version.

To make this project: 

• Cut square pieces of plywood and paint them white (or whatever color you'd like). I happen to have a few 8x8 inch squares leftover from the Patchwork Headboard, so I used those and some white paint I had sitting around.
• Cut out lots and lots of petals/leaves to create your art. I tried to use the same shape as the version from Simply Living.
• Create your pattern and use Mod Podge to fasten the pieces onto the wood. Seal them all with a coat of Mod Podge.
• Oh, but how will we hang them? This is the BEST part of the whole thing. Pop can tabs! Check out the post from Practically Functional to see how to do this. It's genius!

And there you have it! Two simple and FREE artwork projects.

Questions? Please feel free to leave a comment or send me an email. I love hearing from you!

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Family Art {Without Picnik}

I've been seeing these around some linking parties and just had to make one! The first one I saw was here at Tales of a Trophy Wife. She used Picnik, so I gave it a whirl. My first version came out alright but didn't print all that well, so I decided to try it again in Photoshop...much easier and it printed so much better (the resolution on my first version wasn't that great). Also, since Picnik is going away soon, I figured it would be nice to have a version of this made without Picnik for people to refer to. :-)

Now our family  photo from one of our favorite summer spots has a companion on the wall. I just love it!


I won't go into too much detail how to make it in Photoshop. You just need to create a Blank File, change the background color, and start adding your layers. I used Webdings to create the people, the line tool (or the rectangle tool; cant remember) to create the bar the people are standing on, and I downloaded "Daniel" font here for the lettering.


Finding the correct Webdings was the hardest part, so I wanted to make it a little easier for you. I have the male and female "people" for you to download below. You won't be able to see them until you put them on a colored background, so you'll have to trust me that they're there. :-) If they don't work, please let me know. I also created a Word document with the images in it here, so you can see them and just copy and paste from that if it's easier (I imagine you might be able to even do the whole project in Word). You may have to actually download the document to your computer to be able to select the images. Have fun creating! 

Male Image Download

Female Image Download

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