do-it-yourself simple art

 Folks, when I say simple, I mean simple. And when I say art...well, let's just say

that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But sometimes I get get in a creative

mood and just start playing around with supplies I have on-hand. 

For this first piece, I took a blank canvas and spray-painted it. Then I took

a stencil and used my mad sponge-painting skills. Then outlined most of

the circles with scrapbooking markers. Glued on a happy saying that I found

in my scrapbooking materials. As I said - simple. Even a little kid could

do this. It was fun playing around, no intention in mind.

This second piece of art was inspired by this idea I saw on Lisa Leonard's site.

A simple poster hung from a wooden hanger? And she's selling these?! No

offense to Lisa - in fact, I'm a huge fan of her jewelry - but take a beautiful

card you've gotten in the mail, a picture from a magazine, a scrapbook print,

a vintage photo, a small poster, a graphic print you found online - and you

have your own piece of art to hang from a wooden hanger. And if you don't

have a wooden hanger, well heck. Go out and buy one. They're cheap.

I've seen them in thrift stores and even IKEA sells them.

Now here's the funny part - these posters that she's selling? I have the

same prints, but in smaller form. They were from a calendar that I got for free

 when it was included in a jewelry purchase from Lisa's site last year.

I never used the calendar, but I kept the prints because I thought they

were cool. Since my prints are small, I was able to clip two of them

to a wooden hanger. Hmm, now that I'm looking at the wooden part of the

hanger, I could do some kind of simple embellishment on that wood.

For now, these two pieces of simple "art" are hung from the brackets of

Phil's memory shelf in my office/mom cave/personal space (what was formerly

 Phil's room). This room still isn't totally done, plus you know me and moving

things around. Eventually, I think I'd like to put three small black and white

prints underneath that shelf to balance things out.

 My niece's birthdays were this week. I was going to buy birthday cards,

but when I saw the prices of the ones I liked in the stores, I just couldn't buy 

them - $3.99 for a simple card? I can't justify spending $8 on two cards

that will barely get looked at and then thrown in the trash. So, again, the

paper crafting materials came out. I didn't get fancy with the cards either.

Kept it simple. But I liked how they turned out and it didn't cost me anything

since I used supplies that I already had.

Linking up to Cozy Little House Tweak it Tuesday. 

However, it's now Wednesday - so, happy Wednesday from cold,

gloomy, rainy Illinois!