Hey everybody! I'm so excited to share with you the new project I've been working on, and Lisa has been awesome enough to let me share it on her fabulous crafting blog! I came up with this idea at 3'o'clock in the morning after I accidentally/stupidly took two excedrin and a can of Mountain Dew at 7 at night...brilliant I know. But luckily I came up with this fun idea for hand print blocks.
I'm beginning to love them more than any one person should love an inanimate object. I knew I needed some new decor for my awesome blue piano. My previous decor was a little lacking.
So I got out my paint and mod podge and went to work.
I painted 5X7 wood blocks black. The background paper (ei, the white paper with words on it), is actually a print out on white cardstock from my computer. I went to the fantastic site wordle.net and put in a whole bunch of different words about my kids, like their characteristics, things they love, and what I wanted them to become. For my five year old boy I put in things like; dinosaur, wolves, hamburgers, kind, happy, loving, silly, ect. Then you hit create (or go) and it mixes all your words into art. You can mix around the font, colors, and layout to change how it looks. I used a powell antique font,straight edges and half and half layout, and "ghostly" colors.
The word is hand painted with the end of a child's paintbrush (that's all I had. I know, I'm cheap) and the shiny silver is tinfoil (cheap, see?)
I glued all of the paper down with mod podge and then had each of my kids put their handprints on top.
My 18 month old got a little carried away with his handprint, but that made me love it all the more. (and, yes, I realized I used the noun of "life" instead of the verb "live"...why I did this is past me. When I thought them up it was love, laugh, live, but oh, well.)
And now my piano is looking blue-handprinty fantastic!!
-Kira
So I got out my paint and mod podge and went to work.
I painted 5X7 wood blocks black. The background paper (ei, the white paper with words on it), is actually a print out on white cardstock from my computer. I went to the fantastic site wordle.net and put in a whole bunch of different words about my kids, like their characteristics, things they love, and what I wanted them to become. For my five year old boy I put in things like; dinosaur, wolves, hamburgers, kind, happy, loving, silly, ect. Then you hit create (or go) and it mixes all your words into art. You can mix around the font, colors, and layout to change how it looks. I used a powell antique font,straight edges and half and half layout, and "ghostly" colors.
The word is hand painted with the end of a child's paintbrush (that's all I had. I know, I'm cheap) and the shiny silver is tinfoil (cheap, see?)
I glued all of the paper down with mod podge and then had each of my kids put their handprints on top.
My 18 month old got a little carried away with his handprint, but that made me love it all the more. (and, yes, I realized I used the noun of "life" instead of the verb "live"...why I did this is past me. When I thought them up it was love, laugh, live, but oh, well.)
And now my piano is looking blue-handprinty fantastic!!
-Kira
Kira I love these! They would make great presents (hint, hint) I really like the personalized paper behind the hand prints! It is so fun to see the things you wrote about them! If you had to be up late, at least you made the most of that time! TFS!
ReplyDeleteSooo cute! The story behind them makes me love them even more. Hope you didn't wake your kids up at that time of night to do handprints for you. ;P
ReplyDeleteYour blue beauty is really looking fabulous now. Thanks for joining in the fun Kira!!
Wordle is so much fun... it's the slacker way of doing subway art. :) Love your handprint blocks (and the blue piano--wowza)! Found you @ Tip Junkie
ReplyDeleteGreat idea! Thanks for sharing it.
ReplyDeleteI never realized you used "life" instead of "live" either until I read it !!! lol lol
ReplyDeleteLove Them !!!
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