Many of you may remember this post where I showed off my new “full of potential” frame I bought from Goodwill. Well here is the final product! What do you think?
Here is the original frame.
I spray painted it black,
added some pictures, and…
Vuala! My new pride and joy!
Here are a few items that I picked up at Goodwill this past week. I will add links to these items when I have completed their transformation. I’m excited about the potential these items have. We will just see if the ideas I have in my head, comes out when I start working on them. Have you had any great thrift store finds lately? Email them to me and I would love to post them.
I want something pretty simple where it could be added to most decorating styles. Seeing how it turns out I might try to do a resell on this item so I can buy some new projects. But then again, my hubby and I will only be in this furnished apartment for 6 more months…we will need lighting. I guess I will see how attached it get to this lamp. I am thinking about painting the base black and recovering that “beautiful” lamp shade with white fabric. I also might add a black ribbon around the top to add an extra element of classiness. I found a similar idea on this blog, check it out and let me know what you think.
I bought this frame with a specific purpose in mind. I bought a huge collage frame from Wal-Mart, soon after our wedding. I filled it with pictures of us dating and our wedding day. When I finally finished I hung it up on hooks (I hung it by the frame because the cardboard cutout was too small – Yes I know what you are thinking…cheap frame…bad idea) and the next morning collage was laying in pieces on the floor. So this is where this new, sturdy wood (not plastic) frame comes in, except that it is 1 inch too small. But, no need to worry, this small inconvenience will not get me down, I will (somehow) make it work. Stayed tuned…
This blog is on my ‘Check Everyday List’. She has some great project that don’t seem too time consuming. Here are a few that I have found and have added to things I want to make. Check out her site for some great ideas.
She had this great idea for new neighbors. Instead of making them just a plate of cookies, take the extra step and make them feel really welcome. Click here for the full article.
This looks so simple to accomplish and I have been needing something to go in our bathroom. This will be perfect! To make your own work collage, go to this site. Its so simple and comes out great. To see the rest of Just a Girl’s project, click here.
Have you ever wondered what to do with old greeting cards? Maybe its just me, but I have a really hard time throwing them away. Well I recently ran into the biggest card bombardment of my life…I got married. We received a mountain of cards, and I knew there was no way I could keep them all. I decided to keep a select few (ones that wrote a sweet note inside/ something worth reading again) and cut up the rest. Wedding cards usually have great love poems and really cute pictures. I store all of my “scrapings” in a box for easy access when doing projects. They are super useful when scrapbooking of making collages. Click here for an example of a wedding collage where these cutouts were used.
My sister in law, who just happens to be my best friend (yes…best friends married brothers…I know, I know…dream come true!!) made me this photo collage for us as a wedding gift. She used our wedding invitation as a focal point and collaged around it. I absolutely love it!
So when I received another friends invitation in the mail, I knew I had to make one for her too. I hope she loves hers as much as I do mine. I found this frame at Goodwill for $0.99. After I took it all apart, I knew it had great potential.
I glued a 1inch thick piece of Styrofoam to the back of the wedding invitation, then glued it to the center of the background. This not only made it a focal point of the frame but gave a neat 3D / shadow box look. I then surrounded the invitation with pictures of the couple and the engagement ring. I also used different cutouts with quotes and cool patterns on it. Her wedding colors were Lilac and Brown so I tried to keep that as my color template throughout the collage. After I had completely covered the background with pictures, I put the frame back together. This project was super simple and a lot of fun!
I’m still new at this tutorial thing, hence not many pictures. The project is pretty self-explanatory but I will try to do better on my next project and give you more pictures.
