Colorful Doormat Part 2

Ok so by now our doormat slates should be primed, sealed and dried! On to Part 2...!

SUPPLIES:

• 14 Different Colors of Paint
• Paint Brushes
• Thick Rope (it has to fit through the holes you drilled!)
• Scissors

DIRECTIONS:

1) Pick your color layout! I chose 14 different colors from the Martha Stewart Paint Testers I bought at Home Depot.  Once you've chosen them, paint each board.  I did a few coats on each and painted the entire thing, not just the top.  

2) Let them dry

3) Rope them together!  This is actually more complex then it seems.  I estimated the length of the rope needed, cut it longer for a margin of error (I think I did like 6 ft) and dipped the end in glue so it was easier to thread (it was kinda split before).  Now take your rope, tie a knot about 3 inches from the end, take a board and thread the longer side (not the 3 inch end) through the the hole in the board. Once you've strung it all the way through the 6 ft rope strand to the 3 inch knot tie another knot on the other side.  String one side of each board this way until you've done all 14.  They should all be on the same string with nothing but a rope knot between them. Like this... 

 It was ok with me if they were a bit uneven because I am really into the homemade imperfect look.  I do blame the Home Depot guy though!

Oh and here is a bonus photo of my cat Monster he decided to rest in the box that my boards where drying on once I took them off of the top :)

4) Now do the exact same thing to the other side, loop them through and knot them. 

You're done and it hopefully looks similar to this now!...

Tada! I really LOVE it. 

 These photos do not do the colors justice, I am going to take a day light photo and post it soon!

How did yours turn out? What did you do differently?

'Create' Wall Art

Once I put the melted crayon art on my wall I realized how empty the wall of my craft room were. So I decided to make something else for the wall above my craft table. I wanted it to relate to crafting and to motivate me or remind me why I have that room in the first place. After thinking about it i came to the conclusion and this piece of wall art should just say CREATE. It is after all the name of my blog, what I love to do and it defines the purpose of that room!

Here is my how to for my 'Create' wall art piece...

SUPPLIES:

• 5 Different Colors of Acrylic Paint
• 5 Correlating Colors of String/Yarn
• Glue
• Cardboard
• Scissors
• Scrapbook Paper
• A Picture Frame
• A Paint Brush
• A Pencil

DIRECTIONS:

1) Take the piece of cardboard and the pencil, draw bubble letters in the font that you would like your word to be in. I wrote Create and did it in curly-ish font.

2) Cut the letters out!

3) Paint each letter in a different color with your acrylic paint. Let them dry. (Here is a link about acrylic paint, it's so versatile and one of my favorite things to work with... About Acrylic Paints)

4) When your letters are dry wrap them in the yarn/string in a scattered spaced out way. Similar to how you wrap your headphones around your iPod.

5) Fit the scrapbook paper to the frame and frame it. I removed the glass pane from the frame because I wanted 3D letters.

6) Glue the letters to the frames piece of scrapbook paper.

YOU'RE DONE!

here is mine...

What do you think? What word would/will you do?!