When we were designing the nursery, I wanted a grey chevron striped wall to which the Hosh said "I'm not doing that." Normally, I would have said, well I'll do it myself but I was pregnant and you know how that goes.I remembered that I had a roll of chevron wrapping paper from TPT Home (great store if you're ever in Costa Mesa, CA) and decided instead, I would make my own chevron artwork with a nod to my Chinese roots.
The color theme in our nursery is red, yellow, green and grey chevron stripes. Here's my mood board: Unisex Nursery Decor. I decided that adding wall decor with the Chinese zodiac animals of Baby Buckshot's grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles would be a nice way to incorporate family into the space.
Here's a rundown of the process, if it weren't already obvious from the pictures.
Supplies:
A NYTTJA frame from IKEA. (They are plastic fronted instead of glass making them better in a nursery.)
A sheet of chevron striped paper large enough to fit the frame. (Available here.)
A sheet of paper in the color of choice.
A print out of the animal or shape of choice. (Here is a website to look up Chinese zodiac signs. Google images is full of usable art.)
Resticking Adhesive. (This is useful so for reusing the frames for another purpose as baby grows up.)
Scissors
Directions:
1. Adhere the print out of the animal or shape to the colored sheet of paper.
2. Cut the image out of the two sheets of paper that are glued together.
3. Use the cardboard backing of the picture frame to cut the chevron paper to size.
4. Adhere the cut chevron paper to the cardboard backing of the frame.
5. Adhere the cut image to the center of the chevron covered backing of the frame.6. Place the backing back on the frame.
7. Place on the wall.
This definitely looks better as a triptych. We have two sets of these with 6 different animals represented.
Baby Buckshot loves these pictures as they are sitting above the feeding area and changing table in the nursery. They were the first thing on the walls of the house that he was obviously focusing on. Now, he even looks at them, smiles and laughs.
But even better, BB's grandparents and aunts loved that they were represented in his room.It's like having them look over him and that makes me feel good too.
