For a long time I have known that if our second child was a girl her room was going to be "Shabby Chic". Around the same time my husband and I agreed that if #2 was a girl her name was going to be Mandy Mae; a tribute to both our mothers. Mandy was the name my mom wanted if my older brother had been a girl. Mae is my husband's mother's middle name.
I spent the past week on vacation daydreaming of our little girl's room. The first piece that I am making for her room is a framed "M". My inspiration was from a frame I picked up for $2 at the thrift store and had intended it use to for a baby shower for my sister-in-law. We have since changed her theme and will not use this. Waste not!
Using all supplies I have laying around the house I began my impromptu art project. The frame is about 12x12 - the perfect size for left over scrapbook paper. I narrowed down my paper option to four and then I raided my material bin. I found a pale green fabric that was perfect with one of the papers I had selected.
By eye balling the size of the frame I tore out the shape of an "M". Tearing the fabric gives it a nice shabby frayed edge. To do this start by snipping the fabric where you want to tear it. This only works for vertical and horizontal cuts, so for the angles I made a full cut and then frayed the fabric's edge by hand.
Next I used all purpose craft glue and applied it to the frame smoothing it out with a sponge brush. Be careful to only have a thin layer of glue; too much glue will result in a wrinkled canvas when you lay your paper. After laying the paper I used the same technique to apply the fabric "M".
That's it! It was that simple using only items I had laying around the house from previous projects. This project was competed for less than $5.
Five things I always have on hand:
- All purpose glue
- Sponge Brushes
- A good paper cutter
- Scrapbook paper
- Scraps - never throw (fabric, ribbon, paper, etc.) scraps away!
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