Simple and quick Cute Silhouette Easter Bunny art

 Sorry FOLKS, this is a REPLAY week.
So here is a blast from the PAST!
I have plenty to share, Just not plenty of TIME!
So since Easter is around the corner I thought I would show you a quick and easy repurposing craft.

Good Monday Morning my Beauties! I hope you had a wonderful weekend.
I am busy busy busy, getting the new booth ready for the Grand Opening on Friday March 1st.
I am so excited not only for myself but for all the other NEW vendors coming into the store.
There are a ton of people starting out for the first time..living their creative dream.
Whats not exciting about that?!

Anywhoo..in order to start stocking up on more things I knew I had to get started on my smalls
for the booth. So I thought why not make some Easter stuff.
I had this old board that I got at Goodwill.

I painted over it with my CeCe Caldwells paint.

I then went to my silhouette program and printed out some bunnies.
I used just plain old contact paper to transfer the cut outs to the board.
I then used 3 different colored craft paints to paint in the bunnies.

Here they are, cute little Bunnies, ready for Easter!

One project down, only about 500 more until I am ready.
I hope you enjoyed this little tutorial!
Have a BEAUTIFUL day!

 

DIY Quote ART without a cutting machine

Welcome back my Beauties!

I have been working on a Kitchen makeover (which I am not ready to show yet) and decorating a new space in it.

So today I am going to show you how to make the LARGE 

DIY Quote art without a Cutting machine!

Now be warned. This project takes patience; but if I (the least patient person in the world) can do it, so can you!

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First off, decide on what quote you want.

I loved "eat well travel often" but my husband has been a homebrewer for 20 years and he wanted "Drink Well Travel Often"

so I decided that would be a good quote too. 

Next, since it's LARGE Art, I chose a 

30x40 Canvas

You can Order them or do like me and use your Coupon at the local craft and hobby store and get them CHEAP!

I think mine ended up being $18 with coupons.

Then you choose your stencils. I went with

Tulip Brand Monogram stencils.

Again, on sale and with coupon I think my stencils cost me $4

And last, you will need some cheap acrylic paint.

I had that at home but you can buy it for about a buck at the local craft store

(Black Acrylic paint )

That puts my project just under $25

Pretty cheap for some large scale art!

Now here is where the patience is gonna be needed.

First lay out your stencil quote to decide on spacing.

I will tell you honestly,

I had planned on having the artwork be Portrait style,

but in my usual fashion, I changed my mind on what stencil I wanted as I was walking out the store not thinking about the fact that the new letters were bigger than the original ones I had and didn't measure those out in the store..

I got home and realized that but a quick fix was just to turn the canvas the long way...WHEW!

Next step is for more patience.
I have been making signs for years and one of the biggest tricks is to start in the center. 
It's kind of like when you do tile work. You measure out from the middle. 
So just like ALL things in Life....Find your CENTER 
and work from there.
Since "DRINK" was a 5 letter word I knew the letter "I" would be the center. 
I put that in the center and painted that one on.
Then, since you are dealing with WET PAINT you have to wait for it to dry before you lay your next letter down so you don't smudge.
(I told you patience was KEY)
I will also tell you that I sped things along with a blow dryer.
I told you...I am not PATIENT! :)
So each letter goes on, gets dried and you work out from the middle.

But the patience paid off.

I now have my LARGE DIY Quote Art 

hanging in my new space in my kitchen.

(I promise to be back SOON with that space)

I hope you like this DIY and I can't wait to see what you make!

Until next time,

Go make someone's day BEAUTIFUL!

EASY DIY Mandala Artwork

Welcome back my Beauties.

Last week I showed you my Budget Bohemian Bathroom Makeover and I promised to show you how I made the art work for my bathroom.

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So here is how to make your SUPER Easy DIY Mandala Artwork.

To start you will just need a few basic items.

You don't need to use the same colors I used and you can "FREE STYLE" all you like.

This is just a guideline.

For my bathroom I chose Deco Arts Satin Enamel in Denim

and Deco Arts Metallics in Gold.

I have had this thrifted frame sitting in my stash for years.

I also had my 16x20 canvas panels in my stash.

The PERFECT fit for my frame. Can you say CONVENIENT?

I wanted something fun and eclectic so I chose to use my 

Mandala Stencil

Now to cover your canvas you could really use any brush you wanted.

Since I was rushing and I wanted large texture for my background I actually just used my 

wooster paint brush

It's the same brush I use for furniture.

I simply dabbed my brush with some of my blue paint and made LARGE swirling brush strokes over the whole canvas.

I wanted it to have depth so I didn't fully cover my canvas. I wanted some of the white poking through behind giving it texture.

Once the canvas was dry I grabbed my Stencil

and decided where I wanted it.

I knew I wanted to cover almost 3/4s of my canvas so thats where I laid it.

Then I grabbed my metallic paint and a stencil brush

and brushed on my pattern.

This is what I had after the gold. Notice all the texture now that its dry.

Now to make the frame feel a little more FRESH and FUN
I just used the same blue paint and filled in the canvas part of the frame.
It went on darker because of the different material and I LOVED the richness it added.
Once everything was dry I popped it in the frame and it was ready for its close up.

I love having something fun and eclectic in the bathroom.
I also like having something that is one of kind.

See, I told you it was EASY!
I can't wait to see what you guys make!
Until next time,
Have a BEAUTIFUL day!

Budget Bohemian Bathroom Makeover ~ Before and After!

Welcome back my Beauties.

I have been working on multiple projects and pieces for the booth, but I have been itching to show you my Budget Bohemian Bathroom Makeover!

I tried to wait out the weather so I could get some nice natural light to photograph, but alas; I live in Michigan and LIGHT is not something we are in surplus of here. 

I could have brought in my photography lights, but being a bathroom there really was no where I could put them without them showing up in any of the mirrors in the room.

SO, in keeping the "KEEPIN REAL" theme I tend to lean towards ...Here it goes!

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Here is the BEFORE!

Now I know its not terrible, but we have lived in this house almost 20 years and this vanity is STRAIGHT OUT OF THE 80's.

That tell tale Golden Oak that was so popular.

Now I know from the pics it doesn't look too bad, but what you can't see are the deep grooves from our old dog trying to dig to China on one of the cupboards when she got scared during a thunderstorm.

Being a BUDGET makeover my goal was to keep as much stuff as I possibly could. The tile is still in great condition as well as all the fixtures. 

I didn't want to replace or spend money on anything I didn't have to.

The first goal of my makeover was to give the bathroom a little character. Our home is 70 years old but this bathroom at one time had been half the size and one of the previous owners knocked out the wall to a giant closet and doubled the size of the bathroom. That turned it into a big old square box shape. To give the room a little more fun and excitement I decided to use some Faux White Brick removable wallpaper.

I will tell you it took me 45 minutes to hang this one piece.

Seeing as our house it OLD..walls aren't completely straight and unlike regular wallpaper this stuff doesn't SLIDE around.

You have to make sure you have it positioned where you want it before press it down.

Once I got the first row down the rest went much faster.

Since I was working in a room the children need on a daily basis, I did things in steps.

You can see here once I had hung the wallpaper I put the medicine cabinets back up.

Now normally I would have painted before I put them back up but having all the stuff piled in the hallway wasn't really conducive to a functioning bathroom for the kids.

Now it was time to decide what color I wanted to paint the cupboards. I chose General Finishes Driftwood Gray.

Again I worked in stages to keep the bathroom functioning.

After I had my cupboard paint picked out I could choose wall color.

I had a color custom mixed to match the shading in the mortar of the wallpaper.

And HERE is the AFTER!!!
I love how it all turned out.

My kids are pretty awesome and were oooohing and aahhhhing 

when I was done.

You can see here I kept the old towel bar and added some handmade art work above it. 

For some of the decor I just grabbed stuff I have had around my house.

My sister gave me this porcelain hand when I was 13 years old..it is now officially VINTAGE;

just like ME! :)

I will show you in another post how I made this simple piece of art work with a thrifted frame I have had for years and a Mandala Stencil  and Gold Metallic Paint

Some thrifted items, handmade items, a gallon of paint and one roll of wallpaper made for a Budget Bohemian Bathroom Makeover.

I hope you enjoyed this latest makeover.

I will be back soon with the DIY for the artwork and some other furniture pieces I have been working on.

Until next time,

Go make someones day BEAUTIFUL!

A Creative Life Magazine

Hello again my BEAUTIES.

I am so beyond thrilled to 

share with you 

some more exciting news here at 

the Art Is Beauty Home.

If you remember back a few months ago 

I made over my kids old playroom and turned it into my ART STUDIO.

Well a few months after that 

I was asked by KERRYANNE 

if I would like to be included 

in her Magazine

 Simply Shabbilicious Magazine – A Creative Life

I calmly SCREAMED yes!

So without further ado..

I would be honored if you would

head on over and 

check out what a fabulous job

Kerryanne did 

writing up such a BEAUTIFUL

article about my

Art Studio.

You can read the article HERE

I am beyond Grateful and Thankful!

Thanks for making my day BEAUTIFUL!

 

I have been blessed beyond Measure!

Beat up ANTIQUE Music Cabinet turned Hand Painted HAPPY HOPPY Homebrew Bar

Sometimes a reader reminds me about an old post.

This time a wonderful reader reminded me of this

Homebrew Bar I made.

I love looking back at the pieces I did and

this for sure was a favorite of mine!
ENJOY!

Good Morning My BEAUTIES!

I told you I would be back this week with a MAKEOVER.

This my friends was the reason I couldn't get a post up on Monday.

I have been working on this project for the last couple days.

I have been Jone-sing to put some ARTWORK

on a piece for a while now, Like some of my Older pieces 

that you can see HERE, HERE, or HERE, just to show a few.

BUT,  I just hadn't found the right piece to put it on....UNTIL

I found this gorgeous piece...:)

I happened upon it at a half off estate sale on my way home from

the grocery store.

 I perused through the spider web and dust ridden basement not finding anything.. and as I

walked into the old laundry room I saw the details of the doors..and gasped..(mostly from all the 

dust I was choking on...:)

There it was HIDDEN in a back laundry room.

So covered in years of dust and forgotten-ness that I had assumed it must not have been 

for sale, or

 I had thought it would be out of my price range, seeing as these types of pieces around here

usually are. Even in the state of it I thought they might be asking too much...

 To my happy surprise the price was only $15...

WHOOOOOP!! 

The reason being as it was missing a back first of all

and the top looking as it did.

Plus since the workers were ELDERLY, I had to carry this beast upstairs by myself.

(Lord have Mercy, that I didn't drop this down the stairs on to someone or kill myself getting it up

but I am a determined woman...and I was determined to get it home.)

But I didn't care..I was in love.

NOW mind you I am guessing it was a sheet music storage cabinet.

You can see where it had multiple shelves at one time. Now gone, and the house was filled with

old record players. So that is how I came to that conclusion.

 Now for the missing back....I had rescued this old bookcase from someones trash a few months ago.

I kept MEANING to put a back on it and paint it...

But now this piece needed a back...and this piece could still be used to save another piece of furniture's lively hood... :)

 I dismantled the shelf and started cutting. 

(I love power tools...:))

 Once I got the back on I could start 

the fun of painting.

 I decided to use spray paint on the inside since it was quick

and I wanted to get started on the OUTSIDE.

 I again grabbed a power tool; my belt sander, and sanded 

down the top smooth.

Than took care of the I LOVE YOU heart and arrow carved in the top 

and the missing part of veneer.

 I wanted a multiple layer look so I started with American Paint companys

Peacock, and a top layer of Nanas cupboard

 After all that I got to have some FREE HAND FUN!

I drew a circle and a single hop cone and leaf.

We have been HOME BREWERS for over 16 years and had just come

home from a Home Brew competition where the hubby's beer took home a SILVER.

So needless to say I was inspired by BEER! :)

 I started painting over the next couple days.

 

 Here it is before the distressing.

I knew that my circle wouldn't have to be perfect with the distressing

so I tried not to stress to much about that.

and Here is the AFTER.

This was such a fun piece to do

and again, it will be another that

I will have a hard time letting go of.

When it was finished I could see my Hubby's brain spinning

trying to figure out where we could put this piece.

But I told him I would just make him a sign with this

on it, since it takes up less space..:)

 Here are some dried HOP cones from the hubby's Hop harvest last year,

Along with a very old MUSKEGON BREWING bottle that my 

father in law found for us.

I realize that this post was picture heavy and

I thank you for hanging with me. :)

That is if you made it this far............

I hope you enjoyed this furniture makeover

as much as I enjoyed painting it.

Hopefully this piece will be making some other

home brewers home a Happy Hoppy Home.

Until next time;

Go make someones day BEAUTIFUL