As you know, I am knee deep in One Crafty Contest!
Last week's challenge was to create something with beads.
I wanted to make something to go in my daughter's room, and we love rainbows!
Ta-da! The beaded rainbow was born!
I love it when the ideas in my head actually work!
I printed out rainbow clipart and sized it to fit my frame.
I traced the outline of the rainbow onto the fabric and hand-stitched the beads on, 3 beads at a time.
It took hours. I'm not going to lie. I watched a lot of TV.
But I had tried before to glue them on and it looked terrible, so hand-stitched they had to be!
But I had tried before to glue them on and it looked terrible, so hand-stitched they had to be!
When it was done, I glued the edges of the fabric onto the glass from the frame.
I decided the frame needed a color pop!
I love this spray paint.
My daughter loves it!
And so do I.
Thank you to everyone who voted for me in the first round!
Please come back on Monday and vote again!
It looks great! You're the most patient woman ever.
ReplyDeleteSo pretty! I'm sure your daughter loves displaying it in her room. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteYay Jaime!! I knew this was you!! :) I can't believe that you sewed all those beads on! You are a rockstar!! :)
ReplyDeletetoo cute!
ReplyDeleteThis is a great project! Would you consider linking up to my Pinworthy Projects Party? I hope to see you there!
ReplyDeleteThat's so darling!
ReplyDeleteSo colorful and pretty! I love it. I'm totally nervous about the pictures going up tomorrow...but good luck, I'm sure your project is great!
ReplyDeleteThis turned out amazing, Jaime! This is something she'll surely treasure forever and look back on one day so impressed with the time you spent- great job!!
ReplyDeleteThis is gorgeous! I am sure that you spent hours handsewing on all of those beads.. WOW!
ReplyDeletexoxo
Amie @ Pinkapotamus
Wow! This is a really creative idea. I love it. Jodi @ www.meaningfulmama.com
ReplyDeleteThis is so cute! I love the frame and polka-dots to top it all off!
ReplyDeleteI'd love for to link up to my new link party: http://naptimedelights.blogspot.ca/2012/05/tuesdays-tidbits-2.html
Thanks!
Sarah
{http://www.naptimedelights.blogspot.com}
Absolutely gorgeous!!!! My daughter and I both love this!!! She had rainbows in her room and now she wants one of these. I'll have to try.
ReplyDeletecute! good idea!
ReplyDeleteReally cute. This was one of the ones I voted for. :)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! Good thing we have TV to keep us going on long projects like this. That's when I do my crocheting.
ReplyDeleteIt's so darling!!!
ReplyDeleteThis is gorgeous! what a fantastic project.
ReplyDeletethat's some serious crafting stamina!! - I found you via linky - I've joined your site, and off to have a good look around the blog - yay - would love you to come visit me (& join if you can - it'll help make my husband shush about all the time I spend crafting/blogging!):
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I love this! My son's b-day party was 2 weeks ago and it was rainbow themed. This would have been PERFECT for decor! Going to try this!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing. Glad I stumbled across your blog. Would love the follow back :)
The Pretty Pinhead
That is a creative use of beads! I must say I have neglected beads in my craftdom here. I just tend to write those aisles off as jewelry making equipment... Maybe I should rethink that. :)
ReplyDeleteHey girlie!! I was so impressed by your wicked beading skills that I just had to feature you today!! :) http://www.flamingotoes.com/2012/06/crush-of-the-week-think-pink-features-52/
ReplyDeleteThis is so cute and I have no doubt your daughter loved it. I would never have that much patience! Good for you. I am stopping in from TheStuffofSuccess. Enjoy your week. Athena
ReplyDeleteFeaturing you tomorrow : )
ReplyDeleteThis looks awesome - totally worth the time to sew the beads rather than glue them on! (I've tried gluing... ugh! This looks a bajillion times better!) : )
ReplyDelete-Mel the Crafty Scientist
No. Way. In. Hell. You sewed them all onto the fabric? By hand? Move away, batgirl, I found me a new superheroine to admire. You created an heirloom there, girl!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for linking up this is fantastic. I just wanted to let you know that I'm featuring this today http://raegunwear.blogspot.com/2012/06/what-we-wore-read-and-made-link-party.html I can't wait to see what you have to share this week.
ReplyDeleteMarissa
http://raegunwear.blogspot.com