I know I said I would be back on Friday but then a stomach bug entered my life and I didn't leave my awesome bed. Anywho, the art project is finished and I'm stoked.
A while back I found these prints through some other blogs and such....
I flipping love it! But when I went to go buy one from the etsy shop, they were closed! I kept waiting because the prompt said they were going to be gone for 2 weeks. They lied. I hate waiting so I decided I could do it myself (damn it!).
First step, picking out the colors and junk.... I went with grey, yellow, and white. Snazzy. Here's how this went down:
Pick which color you want the stripes to be... I picked grey. (it doesn't look grey in this picture for some reason but it is). My mom and I cut them into 1.5 in strips. Next arrange them...
I wanted them evenly spaced so I used an extra strip as the spacer. Stick down the strips and move your spacer.
Next up, making your states. (I didn't take pictures of this because I was half asleep doing it). If you live in an easy shaped state (Utah) you can knock this out in like 3 seconds, but if not it may take some time a few computer print offs. I was doing one Utah and one Missouri. After they were both cut out I centered the striped page in the mat and then placed the state on the page. Then I drew a little heart over where each one of us is from (collective "awww" please).
BAM! I loves them a lot!
