Pinterest Inspired Nursery Project!

It won't be very often that you will me come up with some sort of creative idea on my own. I wish I had that ability to think up designs or projects, but I just don't. With that being said, I am super proud of myself to share with you this next project that I kind of created almost, all on my own. So this isn't so much a pinterest review as it is me showing off mah skillz.

Before Canden was born I was looking for inspiration for how to decorate his room. I found these adorable letters on Pinterest and followed the link to the Etsy site. I had to have them. They were too precious to pass up.

Etsy

Yeah! Super cute! Until I saw the price....$12 a letter....with 6 letters....comes to $72, not including shipping. Well, looks like I'm not buying those. I just couldn't justify paying that much for letters. So I started thinking. I loved the look and idea of the letters, but how can I do it myself?

Modge Podge. The correct answer to just about everything. Here's what I came up with step by step to create my own -

First, I made a Hobby Lobby Trip. I purchased these:

• Scrapbook Paper - 6 sheets, all different designs to mimic the picture above. 
• Modge Podge 
  
• 6 Paper Mache Alphabet Letters (spelling Canden obviously) 
  

My first step in all this was painting the paper mache letters a dark brown. You of course can choose whatever color you would like to match your color theme.

After I painted the letters and let them dry, I took the modge podge and put a layer on the front facing part of the letter (aka just the front side of the letter). I then stuck the whole piece of scrapbook paper of my choosing, onto the front. I allowed the modge podge to dry. Then, I took an exacto knife and cut the paper along the edge of the letter so that the paper was now only covering the front.

I then covered the sides and front of the letter with more modge podge to insure that there was a seal on the paper so it won't detach from the letter. It also gave a nice glossy finish which I wanted. (You can buy different kinds of modge podge based on the finsih you would like - ie, glossy, matte, sparkly etc.)

For the last step, I took some brown ribbon that I had in the house and created hangers by hot gluing them to the backs of the letters. I measured out the distance from the top of the letter to where the push pin that would go into the wall would be to insure even lengths. Your ribbon length will be different for each letter though do to the different letter shape and where you glue them. Don't worry. The only consistency that matters is between the top of the letter and where the push pin goes.

When you are finished, this is what your result should be!

What do you think? I think I spent around $20 bucks for the materials...if that! I already had the brown ribbon and brown paint hanging around so I didn't have to purchase those (also, already had a glue gun, glue, and push pins). Even if you had to buy all those supplies, you would still be saving money compared to the $12 a letter plus shipping if your child has a longer name.

This project was mostly time consuming - waiting for paint to dry/waiting for modge podge to dry. But overall this was super simple to do and hey, I can say I made that :)

Please let me know what you think! I hope you find this helpful and if you have any questions, please feel free to ask!