Shoe Box Wall Art Tutorial

Picture heavy tutorial. it's very simple and pops with your personality.

First things first gather up your materials you'll need acrylic paint (59cents), left over shoe boxes, paint brushes, tape, and stencils for designs. If your shoe boxes have attached lids cut off the lid from the box. Clean the boxes free from any dirt before painting. Remember to paint in a ventilated area. Acrylic does not smell pleasant in stagnant air >_<

Next paint over the boxes with your base color. Painting on the inside of the boxes or lid is usually easier because of the absence of designs. But if you do chose to paint on the outside remember to add a second coat after the first has dried  to cover the designs.

Once the base coat is done drying add in your designs with wait time in the middle of the layers to be extra sure your designs don't smear. If you're doing a sky and cloud scene like me. (tips on painting clouds:) load the brush with paint and make a circle on the beginning of the cloud. scrub and sway your brush on the blob to create a cloud. never re dipping your brush just spreading the original over the background. It creates a create see through looks that is characteristic of clouds.

I chose the generic freed caged bird. Next choose the layout that you want on the floor.

Attach tape on the back and viola a wall art that pops off your walls.

New Year New Start

It's a new year and one of my resolutions is to blog more often. Just to find a new outlet to a stressful life. Have you ever felt that way? So stressed out you just need to do something? I craft when I've been thinking TOO much. A less painful solution usually follows if not i still have something pretty for my room. xP

now my first project this new years was not so inventive of me but happened when i started staring at my ugly plain white walls.
Next was a more inventive side of me. I painted over my left over shoe boxes for a wall art that popped. tutorial on the next post :]