Pinterest Conquests: Kid Art

So I saw something on Pinterest the other day about taking your child's scribble art and turning it into actual living room art.  Notice how this Pinner cut out similar shapes to make up a flower patter of sorts and then probably Mod-Podged it onto a spraypainted canvas.

Good for this Pinner - I'm just not talented or patient enough to figure out how to do her pattern - the shapes are somewhat repetitive, but then they change size and how the heck did this woman find time to spraypaint a canvas and Mod-Podge all those pieces when she probably has a two year old screaming at her for more Fruit-Snacks.

Okay, maybe that's just me. Anyway I digress . . .



Well, I thought, I can certainly do a better job than that. Jenny has been doing all this Color Wonder painting and it's beautiful in places. I figured I could take Jenny's paintings and turn them into art.

I took down an old black, plastic frame that we'd bought to put my brother's poker photo in. (Sorry Aaron, it was a stealing bingo present and it just didn't fit in my bedroom. I still have it for Tim's man cave in the next house. Don't worry.)

Then I took a plain piece of black posterboard - very cheap.

I cut out pieces in a 3X3 square and arranged them on the black posterboard. I used double stick tape (not Mod-Podge) to attach them to the posterboard. I taped everything to the cheap white paper matte that comes with the plastic black frame and voila! art for my bedroom.

Now I'm fairly certain that someone is going to point out that the middle "tile" in the second row is off a bit.

I had a toddler demanding fruit snacks at that moment and didn't pay attention so much to where I was sticking down that particular piece.

Oh well. I still think it's beautiful. And it looks beautiful hanging in my bedroom. And no one knows that it's really just Jenny's ColorWonder paintings cut into pieces.

Love it!