I knew decorating this house exactly how I want it was going to take time.
A while back I purchased some assorted blank cards from Rifle Paper Co. They have been sitting in my spare bedroom for weeks. I knew what I wanted to do with them, I just hadn't gotten around to it. But last week our weather forecast was calling for snow, and I couldn't stand looking at the bare wall in my living room anymore.
I headed off to my little piece of heaven aka Hobby Lobby and did some shopping.
I had amazing luck that day, because all picture frames were 50% off. I purchased four 8x10 simple black frames.
I took the leftover paint I had from Lowe's that I used to paint my coffee table with and my all time favorite sponge brush and painted the frames.
This paint is phenomenal. By the time I finished painting the first coat on all four frames, the first frame was already dry and was ready for a second coat.
I like a rustic and used look, so I let a little of the black come through.
I also bought four 5x7 and four 4x6 off white mats to go inside of the frames. My cards are only 4x6 and I because I had such a large blank wall to fill I opted for the 8x10 frames! The bigger the better!
I placed the card inside the small mat and taped them together so that they wouldn't slide around when I put the glass back in the frame and started moving them all around.
When I checked out at Hobby Lobby they wrapped all of my frames in packaging paper. Since it was cold as Antarctica outside, I laid out the paper so that I could paint in my living room next to the fire!
Once I was sure all of the paint was dry. I had a revelation. I went and got my hammer, nails, level and tape measure from the garage and flipped all of my frames over right there on the table.
I then measured 2" in between all the frames and leveled it out to make sure they were all in the straight line. (I'm really excited about this part). I then took some of the packaging paper and laid it right on top of the frames as they laid on the coffee table.
I took a pen and marked where the nails needed to go. Then transferred the paper from the table to the wall.
I double check my pen marks with the level to make sure the frames were going to hang even. Bang bang bang, put all four nails in the wall, carefully ripped the paper down
All in all, I spent around $40 for this project. The cards themselves were the most expensive part. But for the amount of space this takes up on such a bare spot of the house I enjoy it. Plus it gave me something to do while school AND work were canceled.
