Idea Sharin' Wednesday and My Cheap Spring Mantel Art

I've been working on my spring mantel.  I've still got a ways to go and I won't be revealing the finished product until the Spring Mantel Party, but I want to share what I was working on today.

Here's where I started:

3 Dollar Store Frames

Here's what I did:

I painted the brown and black ones white.  Spray paint would be easiest, but acrylic paint is so much cheaper, so that's what I used.  It took 3 coats to bring them up to par but they turned out good! 

The frame on the left is yet to be used.  I'm working on a spring printable for it which I will of course share with all of you as soon as it's ready.

For the black frame, once I painted it white and let it dry, I cut out a piece of this cute scrapbook paper I bought at Micheal's today.

As you can see I added the "Love Birds" using mod podge.  I tried using just the paper, but it needed a little extra something.  So I used my Cricut and my beloved Sure Cuts A Lot {If you haven't heard of it, look it up!  It allows you to use all the fonts and shapes you have on your computer on your Cricut.  No more cartridges!}  I used some other scrapbooking paper, grilled cheese font in size 0.8 inches and cut out my letters.

Here's the finished product.  It cost me $2.20 for the frame, a piece of scrapbooking paper, and some acrylic paint.  I think it will look great on my mantel!

And now for the square white frame:

I used some scrap fabric to make a rolled fabric flower.  I used this tutorial.  The only things I did differently were using hot glue instead of fabric glue and I skipped the last step of backing it and just glued it right onto my frame.  This was my first time making a rolled fabric flower.  I LOVE it!

And the picture was simple.  Once again, I just cut out a cute part of a piece of scrapbooking paper.  Since this frame is much smaller and the little birdie takes up most of it, it didn't need any embellishing.  Look how cute it turned out:

This one cost me even less, about $1.59 for the frame and the scrapbooking paper. As you can see, I'm attaching it to my mirror.  I'm loving how the mantel is coming together :)

And now for your projects!

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