Paint Chip Art

My walls were looking bare in the dorm, so I decided to make some new art. Overall, since paint chips are free and I had all the other elements, the project cost me $0 monies! Wahoo!

 Above - Paint chips plus white canvas

Below - Paint chips cut up and arranged in a 6x6 square (the size of the canvas)

 Above - Painted the canvas blue

Below - Glued on the paint chips (sandwiching the canvas with a book to make sure the chips dry on the canvas flat)

Finished product!!!

Happy Crafting!

Love,

Susie

Using a Label Maker for God's Glory :)

I set out today to do one of those cool photo transfers that I have seen all over Pinterest. It failed miserably! But the background it made was really interesting looking, so I decided to make it in to a sort of collage thing.

A while back, I was given a label maker. I hadn't used it a ton, so I thought I would incorporate it into a new craft. Here are some pictures of how it went down.

 (That is where I was about to wet it to do the photo transfer)

(And...that's how it turned out - well, I added the white paint, but you get the picture...FAIL)

 (Here I had doodled a picture on some tracing paper - I am just painting the back of the paper so that it is opaque)

LABEL MAKER :D I layed out the words before I stuck them to the picture.

This picture is after I glued on the doodle with some mod podge

So that's it!

Thanks for reading!
Susie

My My My My My Boogie Shoes :D

Back in the fall semester, I dyed a pair of white keds from Target. I thought it would be super fun to paint a pair this time! Overall, with the shoes, paint, and everything else, these shoes were under $20. Next time, since I already have the paint, the only cost will be the cost of the shoes :)

First I drew some fun patterns on the shoe with a pencil. I traced over the lines with black puff paint.

Later, after letting that dry, I painted the orange (orange acrylic paint) in between some of the lines.

Lastly, I painted the blue. It helped me a lot to water down the paint a little bit. It seemed to go on smoother that way. Also, I always had a q-tip handy just in case I got a little heavy handed with the paint.

Super Easy! Give it a try!!!

Love,
Susie