Thrifty Gallery Walls

Just popping in to show off of my girls’ gallery walls. 

Ali’s apartment living room gallery wall is a mix of clearance, IKEA and thrift store finds:

gallery wall

Bri’s living room gallery wall has fun a mix of art, clocks and barometers:

clock gallery wall

Bri’s gallery wall going up the stairs of estate sale and yard sale treasures…

stairway gallery wall

 and one more in progress…

eclectic gallery wall

Aren’t they awesome? I love the eclectic mix! Inspiration to start your own with yard sale season just around the corner. 

See more here, herehere, here, here and here.  

Do you have a gallery wall?

That DIY Party Highlights – Creative Repurposing

Finding a new purpose for something old is so much fun, isn’t it? I looooove being creative. And that’s one of the things I love about the weekly That DIY Party – seeing your creative ideas. Check out these awesome repurposed projects from the past five week’s of That DIY Party:

creative repurposing ideas

Vintage spool window treatment at Plum Doodles

Tie-burlap-to-vintage-spools-for-unique-window-treatments at Plum Doodles

Toothbrush holder at Zefi’s Blog

toothbrush holder at Zefis Blog

Repurposed baking tins at Shabby Gals

repurposed baking pans at Shabby Gals

Vintage ironing board chalkboard table at Sypsie

vintage ironing board table at Sypsie

Upcycled bait basket pendant light at Lisa’s Creative Designs

upcycled-bait-cage-pendant-light at Lisa's Creative Designs 

Vintage jelly mold light at Vintage Prairie Style

vintage jelly mold light at Vintage Prairie Style

Funnel lights at Shabby Love

funnel lights at Shabby Love 

Wood scrap DIY at Painted Therapy

wood scrap DIY at Painted Therapy

Blanket ladder at Day 2 Day Super Mom

blanket ladder at Day 2 Day Supermom

See more DIY:

thatdiyparty.pinboard

It’s been so hectic around here and with visiting five week’s worth of projects, I did a lot of pinning and gathered some collections of features along with been pinning your inspiring projects to the above board. It didn’t leave much time for commenting so I want to say thanks to these talented ladies for linking up their inspiring creativity and hard work! 

Decorating a Lamp Shade with Vinyl

Lamp Makeover

Plain white lamp shades are the perfect clean slate for adding a little DIY color and pattern to a room. I used vinyl on the inside of my shade to make it a little more special. When the lamp is turned off, the design is subtle, almost invisible but when the lamp is turned on, there’s a sweet little reminder to “shine bright”.

vinyl lampshade tutorial

Materials I used:

lamp shade and vinyl

  • old lamp
  • FrogTape® Multi-surface
  • spray paint (Valspar Indigo)
  • Ikea Jonsbo lamp shade
  • Glossy adhesive vinyl (turquoise) from Happy Crafters
  • optional: elastic gemstone bracelet

Tools: Silhouette Cameo

How I did it:

After taping off the light socket and cord using FrogTape®, I spray painted my old lamp a pretty navy and let it dry. Then simply removed the FrogTape to reveal a nice clean cord and nice clean switch and socket. 

spray painting lamp

For the vinyl wording: I created my lettering in the Silhouette Design Studio. Be sure to right click the text when finished and “flip horizontally” so it shows backwards. IMPORTANT: MIRROR IMAGE the TEXT!

mirror image text

I also used a flower garland shape for my design in addition to “shine bright”. 

vinyl flower design

I sent both to my Silhouette Cameo to “cut” once I adjusted my settings for vinyl. If you don’t have a vinyl cutter, you could also use vinyl decals if the design looks the same backwards (remember: text must be flipped horizontal/mirror image for this project).

Silhouette Cameo tutorial

I then removed all of the unnecessary vinyl from my designs by weeding away the vinyl that isn’t a part of the design…

vinyl lettering and design

and added the transfer paper. 

Happy Crafters vinyl

I removed the waxpaper backing and placed my designs on the inside of the lamp shade. I used a credit card to rub down the design for transferring. Then I removed the transfer paper. 

applying vinyl to lampshade

Note: I found cutting and adding my flower design in sections of two to be the best way with the rounded/tapered lamp shade. Keep vinyl pieces individual/smaller sized to go around the curved lampshade to prevent wrinkling when applying. 

applying vinyl to plastic lamp shade

I added the turquoise bracelet for a little additional bling. 

accessorizing lamp

Here’s a shot of the inside and outside. I do love how the turquoise vinyl lettering on the inside shows navy-ish on the outside. I couldn’t have planned that better if I tried!

inside outside of lampshade

It’s perfect on a side table in our family room for a little extra reading light…

lamp makeover

lamp makeover

Lamp off… 

lamp makeover

 Lamp on…

lampshade makeover

 

NEAT! Love it! I also thought “Note to self: Relax.”, a monogram or a damask pattern would have been pretty. What would your lamp shade say?

FrogTape Blog Squad*This is sponsored by FrogTape®. FrogTape provided by Shurtech. The opinions are completely my own based on my own experience. 

Happy Crafters supplied the vinyl for this sponsored blog post.

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