Starting her room...

I can't tell you how many times

i've heard,

"Are you ready for her yet?"

or 

"Is her room all finished being decorated"

HAHA Heck no..

Not even close. 

Her walls are painted,

well almost finished painted. 

We have the base color finished, 

which is Olympic No VOC color matched from Valspar Signature 

Baking Stone

looks like this

That's the door to our room!!

And besides that we have her dresser- which the room is a mess

so you can see that later, 

plus we have to get new pulls and

I am working on lining 

all the drawers with fun paper which i'll show you later too. 

The first real thing I have done, 

thus far is these letters. 

I purchased these cardboard type letters

months ago from

Jo Ann, I think they were $.99 a letter

Here are my supplies:

 E,L,I,A letters from Joann's- $.99 a piece

 Matte Modge Podge- $3.99 at Michaels

4 pieces of scrapbook paper- $.59 on sale each

Scissors 

pencil

I used two sponge brushes, you only need one, I was just messy.

So what i did first, was pick out what order I wanted the paper in

then traced the letters on the back of the paper. 

Just make sure you get all the front and sides not the back. 

For the A, I also did not do the center part of the A,

you can't really see it

and i'm sure it wouldn't have been pretty. 

I did this for each letter. 

Then carefully I put each side on, 

by putting the Modge Podge on first 

then the paper. 

I made sure the straightest edge was facing the center. 

Sometimes i did the top first and sometimes i didn't. I did notice the onese

I did on top first looks better. 

I then coated the entire front of the letters with the 

modge podge and let them dry on newspaper.

NOTE*- I also used glue to bend the edges to make it look more rounded

from the excess paper. 

Remember, it's going on a wall, so people aren't going to really see every 

single brown line that you can just barely see when  you hold it

5 inches from your face!!

My finished project looked like this:

I think it turned out great!! I'm very happy and can't wait

to get it on her wall! I think these are going either above her crib or above her dresser on the wall!!!

You could do this for anything, like putting them 

in the kitchen, with a framed art wall, 

or in places like the bathroom or laundry room.

The modge podge seals the paper and makes it water proof.

Would i dunk them in water, NO

but if they get sprayed on, moisture on them, 

what have you, 

if you put a coat on everything you should be just fine!!

Hope you enjoyed my little tutorial!!

-Cassie