Scrapbooking Made Simple

Here are some photo's of the off the page projects I recently completed for around my home. These items are all in my living area. For those who have been reading me for a while you'll remember the artworks I completed for this area to match the cushion and the colour scheme is bronze,black, silver, white. This first item is a paper towel holder which I painted silver and then created a bronze topper for it using a piece of chipboard I decorated. Next is this folder "Family Organizer". I got so sick of all the pieces of paper I had to hang onto for each member of the family like the dancing newsletter for my daughter outlining the concert information etc etc etc.... so I created this folder with a section for everyone... Now every piece of paper has a place be that bin or organiser or bills folder. I then altered a letter holder to make it match my colour scheme this was a simple case of painting it with acrylic paint and then adding the chipboard element (gotta love ...

Bedroom Decorating Secrets Revealed Here! And here is my daughters redecorated bedroom. The walls are a roll that I purchased on the weekend for $20. (Big W stocks these in the party section and they're produced by disney). The worst part was that the rolls are a plastic and it was VERY HOT when we were putting it up.... lots of sweating was endured let me tell you... Mostly by DH (as I don't feel the heat as bad as him)! So I have treated her bed and wardrobe and duchess as "Off the page projects" to make them that bit more special. I had ALOT of fun doing this room. Under the bed is a little cubby house feel now with the curtains I added. The curtains are a set I've owned for 15 years and all I did was dye them (the dye didn't take to well though, so they only have a hint of pink to them... which is probably good as there is so pink in there already) and cut them down to size. I'm going to attach some of those little scrapbooking butterflies to the curt...