About a year ago, Carlos and I went out shopping for some baby stuff and ended up visiting a local "culture" store. They have everything there from calendars to CDs to materials for arts-and-crafts. While we were browsing through the scrabooking aisle, some tissue paper and glue caught my eye. There was a whole rack of different colours and patterns, and beside it sat shelf after shelf of letters and shapes. And the idea came to me: I decided to make a set of letters for Aimy's bedroom door.
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My starting point. 4 letters, a heart, 5 kinds of tissue paper,
glue, and a paintbrush. |
The décopatch brand has a lot of really cool kinds of tissue paper, and I ended up choosing 5 that I thought would go nicely with my theme of green, yellow and pink. I also got some glue and a paintbrush.
It really is as simple as tearing a piece of paper off, putting some glue on the spot where the piece will go, sticking the piece on, and putting some more glue over top.
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| Base layer for letters: the music notes |
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Figuring out where to put each piece and having
enough of each colour on each letter was harder than
I thought it would be! |
I did end up cutting out the flower pieces and music note pieces so that it would look neater. Some of the other pieces I cut out as well to fit specific spaces. I did mostly tearing for the heart, and some for the edges of the letters.
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| Nearly finished! |
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| All done! |
I finished the gluing in September but every time I decided to put the letters on the door, something always seemed to come up. Then we were away in BC... Finally, this past weekend, I found some double-sided tape and finished the job. I'm really happy with how they turned out (though I can't believe it took me so long to get them done! Time management and a baby do not always go hand in hand) and I can't wait to do the same thing for Baby #2.
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| Aimy's door! |
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| Now she'll always know which room is hers. |
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