More Fun With Craft Wood

I’ve been pretty creative when it comes to the decoration of my children’s rooms. Charlotte has a pink and green room with big butterfly wall stickers floating up her wall.  James has the most soothing, lovely shade of blue I could find and he has under-the-sea themed stickers all over the place.  Unfortunately there's one area I neglected when decorating and Charlotte's been agitating for me to fix it ever since we moved.

I love having photos of my family and friends all over the house and Charlotte is no different.  She longs for her own photo wall like we had at our last house but, since we moved, all she’s had are a few frames on her bookshelf.  So I decided to turn to my friends the craft wood shapes from Bunnings for some cheap and easy decorating.

First up you’ll need to choose the shape you want.  You can buy a sheet of MDF and design your own but I’ve gone with pre-cut flower-shaped coasters.  They’re 83 cents each from Bunnings.  They also sell plain round coasters and star shaped ones that are even cheaper.  Secondly you’ll need to paint your shapes with the colours of your choice.  I've gone with pink, blue and purple.

Next up you’ll need some photos of family and friends.

And then you need to find a suitable guide to cut your photos to size.  My flower coasters needed a round-shaped centre and this port glass worked perfectly*.

Whack the glass down over the photo and use your trusty utility knife to cut it out.

You can use blu-tac to temporarily stick your photos onto your flower.  The advantage of this is that you can change the photos periodically.  Unfortunately if you have littlies that like to peel the photos off, all you’ll have is a mess.  For this reason I chose to glue my photos down using PVA. 

For added interest and colour I’ve chosen to cover some butterfly craft wood shapes in a pretty contrasting Japanese parchment paper.

That’s it!  Fix your flower frames to the wall with blu tac or those 3M command strip thingies and for less than $15 your kiddy has a photo wall of their own.

*  Hubby prefers his fortified in large quantities and uses a red wine glass.  So these glasses are almost never in use.