Wall art Wednesday!

Today I'm unveiling a new "theme day!" Yes, you guess it, Wall Art Wednesday!

Making something to hang on my walls is literally something I do every week. You should see my craft space (it's not really a room, it's more like an area.) It looks like Martha Stewart's cracked out sister exploded in my laundry room. It really is quite terrible! But that, my friends, is for another day.

So on to what I made this week.

This Wall Art Wednesday I'd like to show you my new gallery wall. It's not really a gallery style wall, but I didn't know what else to call it...wall display? Ugg. I don't even know!

Anyway, I started with none other than toilet paper roll art! If you haven't tried this yet, you don't know what you're missing! I like to use the left-over tubes because they make really awesome and very easy geometric designs! The possibilities are endless.

In this week's project, I used very thin slivers of the rolls (no more than a 1/2 an inch) to make a very thin flower design.

Then I created a pattern, by laying them out on the table before gluing the design together. When I was settled with the design, I glued faux pearls into the center of each flower.

I'm using a hefty circle frame to display the art, so my design, which sets on a piece of scrapbook paper cut to size, needs to be trimmed to fit the circle frame. Centering the design on the paper, I then cut the extra cardboard from the edges.

Next, I mounted the design into the frame. When using a frame make sure it's deep enough to fit the cardboard's thickness. You can also build your own shadow box frame using this tutorial.

I'm not finished yet! I wanted to continue my "circle motif" with hand painted plates circling around the framed picture.

Plate spray painted white 

Design painted with acrylic paint

Plate spray painted white 

Design drawn with a black Sharpie

Plate spray painted white 

Design painted with acrylic paint

Plate spray painted white 

Design painted with acrylic paint

Each plate was originally a decorative Norman Rockwell wall plate. I spray painted each plate with white gloss finish spray paint. Sorry Norman! Using scrap paper and fabric as inspiration, I hand-painted the designs on each plate.

Finished wall.