I cant tell you how many times I have heard the words " You are such a Martha Stewart" (haha) I just love crafting, diy, painting, sewing, and home decorating. It gives me great satisfaction to look around my house and say " I MADE THAT!"
Showing posts with label painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label painting. Show all posts

Friday, October 7, 2011

Creating a Family Look

From Fall Family Pics

 Well I am back with some awesome pictures to share! The fence was a success!!! Amy our photographer LOVED it so much she wants to buy it! ha ha ;) The hardest part was pulling together a family look that didn't look too matchy matchy. I first found material that had all the colors from our living room in it (because that is where the pictures will be hung). I made Abby a skirt from it, and made a cute flower pin for her little brown sweater. If you would like I could do a tutorial on that, just let me know ;) Next I found Greg and Cole's shirts from Target, and I already had the brown jacket from Cato's... It was finally coming together. I hung all the outfits on the fence, just to see if it was going to pull out the blues and reds. It looked great so we were good to go!

   I thinking having a GREAT photographer is definitely the KEY to amazing pictures! Amy from Murphy's Memories Photography was awesome with our kids!

From Fall Family Pics

  When I wanted to cry and pull my hair out because they were not cooperating, she was calm, cool, and collected. (Just what they needed) Because of that she was able to get 62 amazing proofs! I couldn't believe she got that many from what to me seemed like utter chaos. ha ha

 Ok lets look at some pics!

From Fall Family Pics

I think the red ric rac I put at the bottom hem was the perfect touch! Don't you just LOVE the adorable Flower pin I made out of scraps!!!

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Abby and Mommy

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Look at my FENCE, I just LOVE how it turned out!!! My kids are pretty cute too! ;)

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Cole and Abby

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My sweet little girl :)

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My handsome little man

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Hey everyone is looking and smiling!!! I am so happy I got this shot!

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She took a bunch of them hugging and playing together. I love love LOVE it!

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So what do you think, will you be painting a fence panel for your next family session? ;)

From Fall Family Pics

We were just happy it was over :P

   I cant wait to plan out my collage wall!!! I am pulling inspiration from Shelley over at House of Smiths (she is amazing and I got so many ideas from her family photo tips)  I will post updates when I get it started!


Thanks for stopping by,

Jeni Ream

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Transportation Art Knock Off

   That's right I did it... I made my very first knock off!!! My inspiration was the Pottery Barn Kids Transportation Art.

From August 30, 2011

  I first went to Lowe's and bought my old faithful (plywood shelving board at $2. 92) I also had them cut it down for me to 12in. x 12in. squares. I only need 3, so I had one more for a later project. :)

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From art

I got them home and painted the edges white.

From August 30, 2011

  Then I added a thin layer of watered down Elmer's glue, let it tack up, and then added the white scrapbook paper. I distressed the edges using my favorite crafting tool ( I <3 My Distress Ink Pad )

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  Here is the hard part... I had to free hand the actually boat, truck, and plane. I wish I would of made the truck a bit longer and not so wide, but over all pretty happy with it! I really wanted my pictures to have the same hand painted feel as the Pottery Barn set, so I got out my little paint brushes and copied each one exactly. 

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From art
With my center pictures done all I needed to do now was add the lettering with was EASY with my Circut! ( I cut the letters out using the Plantin Schoolbook font cartridge) I used the same watered down glue technique to add all the elements together on the plaques! Add picture hangers to the back and my knock off is complete! Here are both together. What do you think?

From August 30, 2011
From August 30, 2011

From August 30, 2011

From August 30, 2011

From August 30, 2011

Here is the run down...

Pottery Barn Kids Set = $69 each or $207 for the set

My set= $6 that's right over $200 savings

boards- $3
white paint- already had
distress ink pad- already had
7 pages of scrapebook paper- $3


Thanks for stopping by,

 Jeni