✥ A Lonely Zebra Meets a Fancy Rhino✥

My lonely zebra met a wonderful, colorful rhino this weekend. 

Remember this guy?

We welcomed the new addition to the gallery wall, a bold rhino with bright green and blue spots.

My zebra was printed on a map of Colorado. Z and I lived there before moving to Utah.

{go here for the tutorial}

This time I went straight for looks and printed senor rhino up on a gorgeous map of Alaska.

I love how he's faded in spots and who knew Alaska would look so pretty?
I think he's my new favorite.

Looks like the right side of the wall is coming right along. I finally found a ampersand that I liked, it cost me a whopping 3 bucks {from Hobby Lobby.} Serious money compared to the 20 cents I've spent so far!

Go here for the Eye Chart Tutorial and here for the Restoration Hardware Blueprint Art Knock Off.

Update: Take a minute to check out this lovely site that featured my artwork!


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✥ Alphabet Art with Discreet Message ✥

Have you guys  seen these yet? 

 I love one of these or the type that spells out a word. Maybe I'll save my pennies {they're actually not that expensive}
I the meantime I figured I'd make my own alphabet art.

I needed something to fit the smaller frames on my gallery wall. I made this to fit a 3" x 5" mat.

This took about 5 minutes to make. I used Word and picked a font that had pretty typography, but nothing too decorative. Then I spelled out my message in blue, with one or two letters on a line.

I decided to make each blue letter a different shade, for no particular reason. 

I thought it felt more Anthro inspired that way. {Channeling a dresser with 4 drawers in different shades of blue, if you catch my drift?}

So, can you read it? Even up close and personal you have to really try to read it, which is perfect. I like that you could both overlook the little piece of art or be drawn in to have a closer look. It has a discreet personality.

That's just the way I wanted it.
The message? "It's All Worth It." Great for those day you need a pick me up!

Thanks for checking it out!

Update: Please take a moment to check out this lovely site who has {graciously} Featured my art project!

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I'm also linked up here.

✥ UPrinting.com Winner ✥

 I am super, duper excited to announce the very first winner of my very first giveaway!

The winner, #3, is

RILEKAT said... 

 

I tweeted http://twitter.com/rilekat/status/104334832133341184 rilekat@gmail.com

{On a side note, I am pretty positive I've never been tweeted about. Nor has anything I've ever done been tweeted about. Is it weird that I think that's cool and strange?}

Back to our winner- Miss Rilekat, you are the winner of some serious amounts of stationary, courtesy of UPrinting.com!!

Claim your prize girl!

With any luck more people will want to give you guys more free stuff  and don't worry- I've been brainstorming about it myself!

✥ Restoration Hardware Inspired Blueprint Art ✥

OK. I know what you're thinking, "aren't you finished with that gallery wall yet?"

And believe me, I feel ya. But when you figure I haven't really paid anything for all the "art" pieces I have finished, I guess it's not too bad.

Today's quikie project, Restoration Hardware inspired blueprint art.

Have you guys seen their massive piece of blueprint art. It measures something like 5 ft long! Anyhow, here's  a miniature version for my little space.

This project was totally painless. First I found some blueprints or schematic drawings online. I was looking specifically for images of bridges. I looked for bridges from places we like to go, specifically Cape Cod, Brooklyn and San Francisco.
{BUT-Make sure the graphics are public domain!}

On the left is an example of what they looked like pre-photo editing.

I uploaded them to Picnik, then to be able to change both colors, you click on "Create" then you want to click on "Effects." You're looking for "Duo-Tone;" once you find it you're able to select the colors you want to contrast.

I picked stark white and matched the gray to the Restoration Hardware image in the photo. That got me to this image on the right.

I decided the smaller writing would look itty bitty and possibly blur (as my pics weren't the highest resolution.)

I decided to edit out the smaller the words and replace them with the bridge's actual measurements, but in a larger font. I figured this would be pretty "blueprinty." Here's the print, framed and on the wall. 

Here's the last close up. One of my favorite places, San Fran.

Thanks for checking out the "Mini Me" version to Restoration Hardware's Dr. Evil 5 foot gorgeousness!


UPDATE: My SHOP opens 4/2/12. So swing back by if you'd rather just buy one of these!!

Update: Check out these lovely sites who've featured me! {Thank you!}

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I'm also linked up here.