Spray Painted Poster Board

It works!  I was worried about ruining my poster board sunburst mirror but I took the chance and it worked!

I used Krylon Dual (Paint + Primer) in Gold.  It really warmed up the room.  I thought for sure the spray paint would just drip and make a mess but I lightly sprayed and waited a few minutes between coats, which I probably put on 3-4, and it worked out great.

Here she is, before.....

After.....

Opie the Photobomber...

Flower Mirror DIY

We're doing a bit of fixer uppering in the house and there's this huge area above my fireplace that I wanted new artwork for.  After lots of searching I just couldn't find anything large enough that wasn't hundreds of dollars.  I stumbled across this tutorial at The Nester and had the perfect mirror laying around the house for the project.  Here's her version...

And here's my go at it...

So here's the mirror with paper inside so I could paint the ugly brown away.  I used 4 sheets of poster board from the dollar store ($.50 each) and made a petal template and began cutting.  I then used my handy dandy glue gun and started gluing on the petals.  First one on the top, followed by one on the very bottom and then one on each side, working from there.

I only ran into one problem, in the tutorial on the The Nester, the mirror is placed on TOP of everything so it finishes it off perfectly.  My petals were glued on top of the round frame so I cut various size rectangles to place around the edge, it left a pretty cool mosaic look.  Still debating whether or not to spray paint it.....