Now my kids and I are in a new city, new home and it's a rental that I don't want to paint/wreck (the other places were rentals too but were more lenient in decorating). I also downsized my supplies BIG TIME before the big move (well we downsized a lot of stuff-I'm sure the garbage men in my old neighborhood were glad to see us go! lol)
So, this is what it started out as:
As you can see, it's brown and boring and dark. Not nearly what a great scrapping space should look like!
To transform my room, I had no idea what I wanted to do. I kept leaning toward pink, as this space is in my bedroom and my bedroom decor is browns, pinks and creams. Then I was sitting on my bed one afternoon, talking on the phone and my eye kept going to the blue on my Cricut machine. I started leaning towards the blues. The next day I was at the dollar store and I found stackable trays, paint, and square jars all in the same blue! Well I took that as a sign and snatched it all up!
I went through my scraps of patterned papers and took out all the ones that were mostly blue, cut them into 1 1/2" wide strips, left them at their varying lengths and then used my distressing tool along the length of both sides.Then I used modge podge to stick the papers to my cork board in a diagonal pattern. It was surprisingly hard to make it look random and not develop a pattern along the way! I had also painted the edges of the board ahead of time in the blue so that I wouldn't get paint on my papers (I'm a messy painter, can't to a straight edge to save my life!) I put on a sealer coat of modge podge when it was all done, just to make sure it all stuck well. Then I put strips of cream ribbon going diagonal in the opposite direction, attached with clear push pins.
I went through my scraps of patterned papers and took out all the ones that were mostly blue, cut them into 1 1/2" wide strips, left them at their varying lengths and then used my distressing tool along the length of both sides.Then I used modge podge to stick the papers to my cork board in a diagonal pattern. It was surprisingly hard to make it look random and not develop a pattern along the way! I had also painted the edges of the board ahead of time in the blue so that I wouldn't get paint on my papers (I'm a messy painter, can't to a straight edge to save my life!) I put on a sealer coat of modge podge when it was all done, just to make sure it all stuck well. Then I put strips of cream ribbon going diagonal in the opposite direction, attached with clear push pins. I found a roll of wallpaper to put on the wall, instead of paint, and that REALLY made a difference! Talk about instant gratification! The wallpaper was $30 for the roll (I checked clearance bins, but they all reminded me of funeral homes or hospitals, so that was a no go!) Plus I knew I would only need 1 roll, so it didn't seem like a lot to pay) I managed to do this whole space for about $50 by the time I add in the new storage things, paint, etc. Along with the edge of the cork board, I painted the front edge of the table white, the legs the same blue as the cork board, and I also painted a clear plastic magazine holder in the blue
So here is what my space looks like now:
Quite the transformation!! It's brighter even just sitting there, although I would like to get one more of the lights I have on the wall on the right, to put on the left, as my bedroom light is only one bulb, which is no good for night time scrapping! I think a cool blue floor mat would be nice too instead of the cold floor, but all in good time!
