Cheap, cheap artwork

Most of the walls in my house are bare. That is because I'm a bit meticulous when it comes to matching artwork and I never want to pay much for it. And up until now I have been scared to do anything cool and artsy like Jill and Monica.

But desperate times call for desperate measures and I wanted beautiful things hanging on my walls in my new bedroom! So what else is there to do but shop the house just like the Nester would do!

I took a tray that I bought at a garage sale for $0.10 and asked Mr. Steady to paint it brown. Then I printed some words out on the computer, traced them with transfer paper and painted in the words.

It's not perfect and it's not exactly how I wanted it but I like the way it turned out and I love the message it sends to my honey and me.

I also remembered a decoupage book someone had given me. I dug the book out to see what I could find. I was pleased to find some butterflies that would compliment the room. Now what to do with them? I pulled out a couple of pieces of card stock and mounted paint chips on it. Then I mounted the butterflies on pop dots and added them. Paint bristles in black paint for the antennae and the first picture was done! I popped it into a thrifted picture frame I picked up for $0.69 that Mr. Steady spray painted for me and was thrilled with the results.

Next I had a larger picture frame Mr. Steady had also painted. But I didn't have a larger piece of scrapbook paper. So I took some fabric left over from the throw pillows and hot glued it to a piece of cardboard. I printed out a scripture that I liked, mounted a tiny caterpillar and a bigger butterfly and added them to the frame.

Stop back next week for more cheap, cheap artwork.