Jazzed Up Walmart Frames

I was looking at the K.I.S.S. blog a while ago and there was the cutest idea that I had never though about doing before. She had taken the mats out of the picture frames and applied scrapbook paper to them  to give the frames a little color and pizazz! 

I loved the idea! I am constantly thinking that I love to look of a mat inside a frame but I am not always loving the colors they come in or how they look with the actual frame itself. 

This fixes all those issues I once had! 

This blue frame is honestly just a $5 frame from the bargain frames at Walmart- spray painted.

I love the way the paper adds a slash of color to what may be a boring or just plain frame!

These are so simple to make and with how cheap they can be, depending on how much you want to spend on the frame, make great gifts! All I need now are so cute pictures to put in them! :)

Scrapbook Paper Picture Frames

I have had these two unfinished wooden frames for about a year now and just finally decided what to do with them...

I started by tracing them both on scrapbook paper that coordinated with the decor in my girls room and then cut it out then applied it too the bare wood with a very thin layer of hodgepodge. When you do this I have found that a thin layer works best and try to smooth it as you go so you don't get any air bubbles trapped between the paper and the wood. Let it dry for a bit. Then I sanded the edges of the frames so that the paper that hung over the a tiny bit got sanded off and the edges started to look a little worn. To finish them all off  I just used an ink pad from my scrapbooking supplies and inked around all the sides of the frame and then wiped off all the access ink after I was all done- I used the ink instead of paint because I wanted the wood grain to show through it- plus it was super easy and now paintbrush to clean out afterwards! And voilà they were done! 

Bird Artwork

I love birds in decor. I think they are earthy, fresh, and just cute!

I bought this frame at Ikea and it was originally black. I spray painted it light pink to match the girls room and then I couldn't decide what in the heck to do with it. I tried about 5 different things and nothing looks cute or how I wanted it to look. Finally I decided that I wanted to incorporate birds somehow. Since it is a picture frame and has glass I just covered the cardboard insert with fabric using spray adhesive and then cut some birds out with a pattern I found online (I honestly can't even find the website I used to print this out... I have looked and looked and haven't been able to find it to link back to) and put them in place of where I wanted them and then put in into the frame and that is my attempt at my own artwork... Simple- but what can you expect from someone who isn't an artist? ha ha