So begins my love affair with pinterest that started about 2 months ago. Much like many relationships I’ve been in before I met my husband I wasn’t quite sure what to do with it. One day it hit me… this is to organize all the crafty stuff I wanted to do and share it so that others can do it too.
So, for my New Year’s resolution I resolved to make my house look like my Arts and Crafts pinboard. I have been wanting to redecorate forever but, never had the extra money to spend on the things I really liked so this resolution really made sense. Re-decorate with DIY projects, save money, and have a small sense of accomplishment.
Below you will find a great idea. I kinda wish I could have taken all the credit for it but I can’t. Here is the original idea. I thought I’d do my first DIY post with this one since within 5 hours I got over 200 repins. I feel like that’s kinda a big deal. You can go to alpamom’s post
http://alphamom.com/family-fun/holidays/cherry-blossom-art-from-a-recycled-soda-bottle/
. Below you will find my step by step way.
Let me know what you think and I’d love to see if any of you did it and what they look like!
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- Here are the supplies you will need. At First I thought I’d want to use the paint pens since using a brush kinda freaked me out. I love these Elmer’s paint pens!
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- Coke or Pepsi… hmm… which one to use?
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- I then mixed the paint until I got my desired color.
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- Out comes the brown paint. I wanted a bigger looking branch that the paint pen was not giving me so I sucked it up and got my paint brush out and didn’t use the paint pens. If you’d like to use the paint pens go for it but, I’d use thicker tips. That’s Desperate Housewives in the background =)
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- After you do your branches (I forgot to get a pic of that sorry, I’m new to this!) Put your desired soda bottle in the paint. Make sure you get a lot of paint on the bottom. Still can’t believe after all these years I just now realized this is a flower shape.
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- Painting #1
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- Painting # 2 This litereally took me less than an hour and cost me $16 for both paintings. I don’t think I’d get that good of a deal at Home Goods for these 2 canvas’s plus I have an original painting I DID!!
