Nursery Art!

This piece is the major focal point for the soon-to-be-gender-neutral nursery!

 

Believe it or not, this project cost me about $.75 to make! I used a large canvas I already had that was up in Molly’s room and all the paper used for the mosiac came from my scrapbook paper scrap box! I used a bottle of regular old Elmer’s glue ($.75!) and just glued away piece by piece until I had the finished look I wanted.

This is what the piece looked like when I started. This hung above Molly’s crib in her girly nursery.

 

After I removed the old artwork (and turned into 2 scrapbook pages of course!) I free hand traced a large sunshine onto the canvas in pencil.

 

I spent the next three evenings cutting scraps of scrapbook paper that were blue in any shade, gray in any shade, and purple in any shade into small squares of various sizes. I usually did this mindlessly while watching a show with my hubbie.

Piece by piece, I glued it together layering the pieces ever so slightly as I went.

You can see how I layered the pieces around my traced out sunshine.

Molly was pretty excited about it, as you can see!

 

Then the next  evening was spent cutting any yellow or orange scraps I had into squares. I didn’t actually have that many, so I did break into my 12 X 12 stash for some more yellow and cut up an entire 12 X 12 piece of paper as well.

I cut  triangles for the rays from card stock scraps and actually layered them on top of the blue once they were paper “mosiac-ed.”

Then I cut a large half circle out of cardboard and layered that on top of the triangles for the main portion of the sun.

The letters I traced onto white card stock scraps using some chip board letters I had and cut them out by hand– tedious but free!

I LOVE THE WAY IT TURNED OUT!

This piece will hang in the center of the room between their two beds and set the tone for the room. Bright, colorful, and happy!

 

Now if only the weather would cooperate and allow us to be able to paint the room, that’d be awesome. We actually had snow today!

 

We need to be able to open windows for ventilation because I am preggers and Molly will still need to sleep in there. I was so bummed about the fact that once again, the painting is being put off that I could hardly pull myself out of that state of bummed out disappointment. To help perk myself up, I made another art piece for the room… to be shown to you all later!