Bathroom Wall Art!

So, I am currently working on about 8 million projects trying to get things ready for my very first apartment away from home! I have bought things in my bathroom to be a sea green and coral with bright white. So I started thinking I am going to need something creative in my bathroom, and well this is what happened.

I will show you step by step what I did so that you can try it for yourself! Maybe your experience will be slightly kinder than mine.

SUPPLIES:

1: Picture Frame

2: Spray Paint (If you wish to update an old frame)

3: White Material (Course type)

4: Fabric Paint

5: Small Paint Brush

6: Painters Tape

7: Your Initials Print out

8: Razor Blade

9: Push Pins

Step 1:

Pick a frame size and either spray paint an old one (as I did), or buy a new frame. Take the glass out and wrap your material around it (Make sure you have washed and ironed your material first). Tape the back of the material up so it will not move on the glass.

Step 2:

Put your frame on top of the glass/material, Make a border with your Painters Tape. Make sure it looks even, I measured mine to be two inches on every side. My frame is a 16x20.

Step 3:

Take the Print out of your Initials and tape every part of the black that you can to the center of the material. Once you have done so, take your razor blade and cut out the black from the white. This is why you need a course type material so that there is no chance the material will cut when you are doing this step.

Step 4:

Tape up your material. I made the first line then laid a piece of tape on the edge of it so the lines were even and then made my second line. Once you get to the circle it gets a bit more complicated. My lines after the circle somehow got whop-sided and I did not realize it till after I was done. I took my razor blade and cut each edge so they would be correct. once you cut it just peel off the excess and you have a straight line.

This is the fabric paint I use.

Step 5:

Paint your picture. Be EXTREMELY careful with your paper. I dabbed the paint over the paper so the paper would not rip. I left it at this point to dry over night. (It was very late)

**NOTE: Take your material OFF your glass. The paint WILL go thru the material so make sure you have paper or whatever you don't care to throw away under your material.**

Step 6:

Take off your tape and touch up and spots with some white fabric paint. Put your glass on top, trim your excess material off the edges, and put both glass and material in frame. I added a second layer of material because mine was so thin.

Step 7:

Clean glass with windex (if needed), hang up, and  ENJOY!

Hope this helps all of you create your own! let me know how it goes :)

How To Make Sand Dollars White

Me and My best friend went to St. Simmons Island for the Fourth of July and decided to walk the beach before watching the fireworks and we found some dead Sand Dollars along the way.

So I know the Sand Dollars in the stores are just so pretty and you have nothing to do to make them white, but if you are like my family we love walking the beach! We love finding shells and bringing them home, so I though I would share with you how to remove the ugly brown "skin" from them so you can have pretty WHITE Sand Dollars that you or the kids found, so you can display them!

Step 1: get some Bleach and a bowl that your Sand Dollars will fit it. Pour just enough so that the Sand Dollars can float in the bleach. Rinse the Sand Dollars and make sure you get all the sand off! Be VERY gentle, they can break from to much water pressure coming out of the faucet.

Step 2: Put the Sand Dollar in the bleach. I put them upside down, it seems to have a much better effect because the Sand Dollars like to float and that means the side up doesn't whiten as well, to me I would rather have the side everyone will see be whiter!

Step 3: After a little bit a white substance will form on the Sand Dollar. You can take them out and rinse them off (be gentle they are even more brittle now) and see if they have reached your desired tint of white. I left mine in there around 10 minutes, I have never left one in there longer than 20 minutes, they start to fall apart when you pull them out if you leave it in there too long.

If you get one that looks like this don't worry, it just means it isn't done. Stick it back in the bleach and let it soak a bit longer.

Step 4: Let them dry! And presto, you have pretty white Sand Dollars!

Happy Fourth of July Everyone! 

Kait

Welcome!

Welcome to my blog! I am extremely crafty and I love making all kinds of things! When I see something I try and figure out how to make it, and I absolutely love it. I plan on using this blog to share how I make items so you can attempt them yourself! I also plan to post things here to keep my family up to date on what I do, so keep checking in to see what is new to make and what is up in my life!
Kait