Creating a personalised picture for your child's bedroom
8.6.2020
Translation: machine translated
I love pictures because they add character to a room. Doing them yourself is a simple and inexpensive way of adding a little pizzazz to your little one's bedroom.
I have a weakness for wall art. I feel at my best in a soberly furnished room enhanced by different wall pictures. All year round, I have fun creating new ones. Recently, I decided to make a picture with my daughter's name on it to decorate her bedroom. At three, she admires her first name and constantly runs her fingers over each of the letters.
What you need
For the design, you'll need a stretcher with canvas (any size you like), cotton string (length varies depending on the first name), spray and acrylic paint, a hot glue gun and wool for the pom-pom. In addition, you may need a pencil, clothes pegs and a fork.
Artist paint + Craft paint
CHF26.50 CHF29.44/1l
Talens Acrylic paint 12er set
Primary yellow, Yellow Ochre, Crimson, Ivory Black, Blue violet, azo-orange, Permanent green Dark, Titanium white, Siena burnt, primary cyan, Naphthol Red Medium, Ultramarine, 900 ml
Steps to take
First, apply a base coat of spray paint to the canvas. I chose the colour grey. Then write your little one's name in pencil on the canvas before laying the cotton string over the letters. This will show you the length of string you need. Then paint the rope cut to the correct length in the colour of your choice and leave to dry.
Now get hold of the glue gun and, once it's hot, apply the glue to part of the string, keeping it pressed against the letters. Depending on the letter, you can either cut the string or shape it by holding it with a clothes peg.
Once all the letters of the first name have been "corded", you can decorate the design with a small pom-pom made in two minutes using a large fork. It couldn't be easier: wrap the wool around the fork, then slip the thread between the prongs and tie a knot. Remove the small ball and cut all the loops with scissors.
For the moment, as my daughter is very intrigued by the letters of her first name, we leave the board on the dresser so that she can easily copy each of the letters onto a piece of paper. As the saying goes: practice makes perfect. You can also create other images with the rope. Let your imagination run wild and have fun. At the end of the day, that's the most important thing about DIY.
If you'd like to see more crafts from me and my children, click on my author profile and get inspired.
I'm more of a thinker than a doer. Yet I'm still always active: crafting, sewing, writing to-do lists, daydreaming, counting clouds, digging into soil, comforting my two little ones and collapsing into bed after a long day. If it were up to me, each day would have a few extra hours... I wonder if that would be enough.
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