06/08/10

Here is a little project I have worked on for Mikayla's "new" room. Wanna see how I did it? :)
I was originally going to have someone else make her one of these. I got this "idea" from my friend Gretchen when we visited her and her kids during spring break. She made a "name" sign for one of her girls that had words of what she loved surrounding the name.

Because I didn't photograph it, I didn't remember how it looked. When I checked into someone doing one for me it was going to be a bit more than my budget allowed so I decided to try something myself.

We went and bought a canvas, some paint, 3-D "pop-ups" and my mind went to creating.

Here is my canvas - nice and white. I am about to paint it that lovely lime color.

Almost done with the painting.

After it dried I used painters tape to make a border to make it look like it was "framed." This is when the perfectionist/linear side of me came out because I didn't want to use a ruler so I just "eyed" the taping. Love me some straight lines.

Then, I put tape all on the inside so I could spray paint the border without messing up what I had already done.

Spray painted.... nice and lovely. (If you didn't read yesterday's post, do so now. lol For those of you who did, this is what I held that caused my finger to turn black!)

After that dried, I began to peel away the painters tape. (Notice the lovely black finger and nail... that was after I had tried to scrape it off!)

VOILA! A lovely "frame" to my canvas.

Then, I used chip board letters for her name. They are black glittered. I used pink glitter letters to write out the words of what she told me she loved. After that, I decorated with butterflies and flowers which are more of her loves. Last but not least, I added the "bling" because girlfriend loves her some of that. :) Click on it to view it better!

The best part.... when Mikayla saw it she threw her arms around me and kept saying "Thank you!" I loved doing this for her. I can't wait to see it hanging in her "new" room.