Let's Be Crafty!

I enjoy being creative. If you know anything about me, you know that I love art and I love to create. Whether you give me chalk and pavement, watercolor and a brush, or paper and a pencil, I just simply love to create anything with whatever I have in front of me.

Every summer I like to do some sort of art project! For example, two summers ago I spent my time painting fun little swirly/flowery designs on my bedroom walls. Last summer I worked on a water color painting of my hero and Savior, Jesus Christ!

As for this summer, I have a few projects ahead of me. I will be painting a tree on the wall down stairs so my mom can have a "family tree" with pictures of our family and grandparents! It's going to be sooo cool. I can't wait to finish so I can post pictures. This is what it will hopefully turn out to be like! I'm excited!

As of my other project for the summer, I found this cute pixel idea on my new favorite website http://pinterest.com/ and fell in love.

I grabbed 36 random paint samples at Walmart. I cut them down to a specific size to create a perfect square. After I laid them all out, I measured the height and width. I then ran to the convenient little store of Pressed Petals and got foam core cut to that exact size (Thanks to Emmie and her sweet father). I then positioned the colors to my own taste and then I sat down and glued them down side by side with a little glue stick. 

 After they were glued down, I mod podged each square individually. The first coat I painted horizontally. After about twenty minutes, and after the mod podge was dry, I did a second coat vertically. The mod podge eventually dried and left an awesome criss-cross design!

 Mod podge can be really hard to work with sometimes, so I only had a problem with ONE of the squares. I guess I kinda lucked out, but it would have been awesome if all the squares could have been flat! But it's okay I guess. Now I'll secure a wire on the back and I'll be displaying this sweet work of art in my future apartment down at college.

How easy was that?!
Not to mention super inexpensive :)

Love,

Kate