I've been crafty, I swear. I've put vinyl up on my walls, I've made decoration for my home (from scratch, NOT using my silhouette or cricut. I know, go me.) I've also painted furniture and my fireplace and a mirror I need to get hung! In addition to that I was chained to my sewing machine yesterday and made something called "mama cloth" (and if you're not familiar but don't want to be grossed out, don't look that up.) paper flowers, and I'm fixin' to make some more as soon as I can get the coffee filters tea-dyed. Yeah, I get the irony of that, why not just use coffee? Because tea gives me the antique look I'm looking for. But, I digress- I just haven't blogged about it. I know, I'm a horrible person.
I'm making the most of my almost-to-pushing-out-a-baby-but-not-quite-yet time.
Today, this is what I made and painted!
So, it's no secret that I'm countrifying/homesteading my house. Yes, I LOVE the old farmhouse look. I just like the down-home, comfy feeling I get from it. May not be your bag, and that's ok! Different strokes for different folks, I suppose. But here on the Wood homestead, I wanted something "comfy" and inviting.
So, those metallic stars that cost like $25+ a piece- we love 'em, right? Yeah, I do. I'm not about to pay $75 for 3 because- BUDGET! Hello, champagne tastes on a sweet tea budget. Sigh. What's a girl to do? OH yeah! Pinterest to the rescue! Yes, I'm in love and totally addicted to Pinterest.
You might call what we have is more than a fling, but less than an affair.
Anyway, back to the project.
You will need:
cereal boxes.(recycle those babies- you just need chipboard)
paint and brush.
floral wire
hot glue and gun.
Now, disclaimer: This is NOT my pattern or idea. I DID, however, adapt this to smaller than the stars she made because I used hamburger helper boxes. (total health food, I know.) Basically, you're going to want a flexible(ish) chipboard.
I followed the blog directions here.
Once I cut them out and hot glued them all together, (5 points per star.) I painted them. The colors I used were:
Anita's All Purpose Acrylic in 11025 Rust Red
Americana's Epresso
and Sherwin Williams Antique White. (It's a dupe of Annie Sloan's Old White) I got it in a sample size when Lowes had their .99 cents paint sample sale (Because I have furniture that is BEGGING to be chalk-painted!)
I took floral wire, and created a little hanger that I hot glued onto the back of the stars and they're attached to my walls with pushpins! Really, they're that light, it's chip board! It cost me practically NOTHING to do this project! I mean, I already had the paints for other projects, and my minions at the contents of the boxes, I just salvaged them from the recycle bin. The floral wire, I've had and hot glue costs what? $1.00? Yeah, this project for the three stars maybe cost me .50 cents to make? IDK. That's WAY better than $75 for some metal ones, IMO!
Seriously, I'm in love with how they look.
