Photo Shelf

Made By Me for Monday!!!

Hello everyone!!!  I hope you all had a fantastic weekend and are looking forward to a wonderful week!  Did you do anything creative this weekend???  We had some super gorgeous Spring sunshine to enjoy.  It was wonderful!

Just a quick note, I have had BUNCHES of emails about my craft room since I posted it last week.  Did you miss the post?  No worries!  CLICK HERE to see it :)  Anyway, I have decided that in the next week or two, I will do a part II Craft Room post.  Maybe that will help answer some of the questions.  Oh, and THANKS BUNCHES for the oh, so, kind comments about my creative space.  You all made me smile!

Onto this week's creation!!!  First of all, you are going to have to excuse the fact that I forgot to take a before picture!  OOPS!  Sometimes I just get so ExcItEd to get started on a creation that I forget to take a before picture!  But, we all know what an unfinished shelf looks like right???  SO, all you need to do is picture the shelf in an unfinished state :)  Okay, got it pictured? 

Well, here is what it looks like now:

My paint color is Mississippi Mud.  I use it a lot because it matches my home decor so well.

I LOVED this shelf because of the picture openings.  Anything that lets me display pictures makes me happy!  I added strips of scrapbook paper around the "frames" with mod podge to make the photos stand out even more :)

This is the top of the shelf.  I mod podged scrapbook paper to it.  The paper has just a slight glittery look to it which I absolutely LOVE! Oh, and it matches my bedroom perfectly (which BTW is where I am hanging the shelf).

I inked the edges of the shelf lightly before I mod podged it.

Here it is all finished.  I added my boys names in vinyl on top of their pictures.  I used my handy dandy Cricut Machine to cut those.  Couldn't live without it!!!

I will be linking up at some of these parties HERE this week.  Show them some love!  It is a lot of work to host linky parties each week!

I hope you will come back and join in on my linky parties too!

Wednesday: Wandering Wednesday Blog Hop

Thursday: Thrilling Thursday Linky Party

Friday: Fun w/Food Friday Linky Party

See YOU there!!!

Photo Display

I was in my local craft store and they were having a 50% off sale. I am a sucker for clearance stuff. I don't know why, but when I see a clearance sticker, I am immediately drawn to it :)

I found this metal garden thing-a-ma-bob and it was only $9.00. I knew that there was something I could make with it. So, I bought it!
Since my craft room is decorated in red, black, and white, I knew that the green just wasn't going to work. So, first I spray painted it red and then I put a black glaze over the top of it.
Here it is at that point. Since I am more of a floral girl and not much of a leaf person, I decided that I wanted to do something about those leaves.
I liked the leaves, but I didn't love them.
So, I came up with an idea to make some durable plastic flowers to glue over some of the leaves. Want to know how I made the flowers??? CLICK HERE :) I did a separate blog post on those :)
My flowers. I just love how they turned out. There are SO MANY things you could use them on!
Hanging in my craft room, but not quite finished. At first I was thinking that I would hang some of my craft supplies on this (which would work GREAT!), but then I decided to use it to hang photos, quotes, and memorabilia on.
I used clips to hang the stuff, but since it is metal, I can also go back and use magnets to hang more items on it.

JOIN IN THE FUN! Check out where I LINK UP :) CLICK HERE.