Project Nursery: Nursery Artwork

I think artwork really helps a room come together and feel more complete. For the nursery I wanted the artwork to be modern with a but of whimsy. After searching high and low for artwork, I couldn't find exactly what I wanted so I decided to DIY artwork for the nursery. Here's a reminder of how the nursery looked like before adding artwork.

Here's the nursery so far, I think the artwork made a huge impact on the room. Above the crib we decided three prints would give a nice balance in the room. The first print is a mom giraffe and baby giraffe silhouette, next ABC print and lastly bunting flag artwork.

On sliding glass door wall, I framed a stencil 'A' for Avery and Ribbon Dot art.

Here's how I created the artwork for our little guy's nursery - we affectionately call Avery the 'little guy'  For the Momma & Baby Giraffe artwork, I Googled Mom and baby giraffe. When I found the silhouette I like I printed the picture and then enlarged it by 115%. Next I cut out the mom and baby giraffe then traced the cut out on to card stock paper I found at Micheal's. I bought to large textured Art Paper for the background on all the artwork at Micheal's. After tracing the artwork on the card stock I cut out the giraffes again and place then on the white background. I really love the simplicity of the giraffe silhouette.

I created the ABC art print and letter 'A' art print using Microsoft Publisher. The ABC artwork was simple to create and decided on the layout and used a color scheme that went well with Avery's room.

The letter 'A' was easy to create, I used a Stencil font and made the letter white and placed a orange circle around it. I framed those four pieces of art using Ikea Ribba frames. The Ribba frames have got to be my favorite frames EVER, so cleaned lined and simple. I think those frames help give a more modern look to the nursery.

For the bunting flag artwork, I used the printed out the PDF template from Aubrey & Lindsey's Blog. I printed out the PDF flags along with cutting out flags in various shades of paper that related to colors already in the nursery. Then I placed the flags on the paper in a banner style. I really love how the mini flag artwork turned out!

I made the Ribbon Dot Artwork using the ribbon dot garland I made for my baby shower decoration. I loved how the garland turned out and thought it would be cute to reuse it in the nursery. I bought three frames from Micheal's for 3 bucks each thanks to a coupon for 20% Off. The frames were perfect, but the wrong color. I love the a few coats for spray paint is the perfect solution.

I placed the garland on white textured paper and framed. I like how the shades dark blue dots pop next to the lighter dots and the subtle shine of the ribbon.

Here's a picture I took a few days ago of our sleeping cutie, he loves being wrapped like a burrito and sleeps so well in his cradle!

I had so much fun creating simple modern nursery artwork for our sons room! We have a only a few more projects to complete for the nursery!

Have you created any DIY artwork for your home?

Follow Along: As we create a nursery for our baby boy due in June 2011 (He arrived early 6/3/11) From the beginning; Nursery Bare Bones, Paint Makes the Difference, Bye Bye Boob Light &Hemming & Hawing, Crib Notes, To Rock or Not To Rock?

A Few Changes

Hi Everyone, before I get into today's post I wanted to thank you all for your kind and loving words about our early edition aka our son! We are overjoyed with all the love given to us by you! Bloggers / Blog readers are the BEST! I plan on sharing our birth story very soon & updates of the nursery which is in the final stretch - thankfully!

For the past month + I've been thinking about making some changes to our living room since refinishing our hardwood floors in April. First we changed the layout of our room and made some other changes, I 'll share pictures of that soon! But right now I'm focusing on pillows. Which I find is one of the easiest ways to make quick updates in rooms. I came across this pretty Indigo Ikat fabric from Robert Allen a few weeks back and ordered some some yards for pillows. I love the deep navy tone against our tan sofa, it really adds a nice tailored punch. I had great pictures of the fabric on our sofa, but my camera cord is missing - so this picture of the fabric will have to do for now.

Here are some living rooms I've recently came across that have been inspiring this living room update.

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{ via Apartment Therapy }

For those you wondering for sure I'm keeping pops of yellow in our living room! Love Yellow! I'm also in the mood to possibly change out the yellow pillows we currently have for a new fabric, just not sure what right now. We are also thinking about art, just got to find { or make } a great budget piece of artwork. I'm hoping to squeeze in some sewing time for pillows in between taking care of the little guy. I will report back soon on my pillow progress very soon.

Early Addition

Hi everyone on Friday June 3rd, our family welcomed its newest addition our baby boy was born two weeks early!! Without further delay please welcome our son

Avery Reign Sullivan

He is  healthy happy adorable 8lbs 6oz and 20 inches long. I'm overwhelmed with love and my family is so happy!!

We arrived home from the hospital on Monday afternoon and are getting all settled in. His nursery is still not done, I thought for sure we had one more weekend! Oh well one more weekend without seeing he's lovely face would now be unbearable.

Showered with Love

A couple of weekends ago one of my mom and one of my best friends threw a baby shower for me, in honor of our little boy arriving in a few weeks. Both my mom and Sarah live a few hours a way from me, so the perfect spot for shower was my home. Having the shower at my home was was so much fun, it allowed me to share with family and friends the nursery progress. I love making invitations, so I decided to make my own baby shower invites ( just I like I made our wedding invitations click here ). The baby shower invites are simple and modern and remind me of the colors of our sons nursery. Of course I blanked out a few details to maintain privacy, our address etc! 

You've now been virtually invited to my baby shower, I hope you have fun! I had a blast at the shower, nothings better than celebrating with your loved ones! 

Sarah made some darling banners for the shower, a festive 'Welcome' sign greeted our guests.

She also made a 'Baby Boy' sign and 'Congratulations' sign that hung in the living room. The signs she made cam out amazing!! I'm saving these signs to use again in the future! 

The famous Martha pom poms hung in the dining room above the buffet table. My mom made all the yummy food, which was so sweet of her! Thanks again mom.

In addition to yummy food, we had sweet treats for the guests to enjoy during the opening of the presents. The yummy sweets included: lemon bars, cookies, mini donuts, strawberries with whip cream, fresh fruit and of course cake!

For drinks guests had a choice of Lemonade, Sweet Tea or Water. My mom's famous Sweet Tea is always a hit! She also made it for our wedding! 

I've been inspired by some many simple cakes adored with cute bunting flags, I made a half round bunting flag to top the cake. The simple round bunting flags looked darling on top of the cake.

We played three games at the shower, the theme of the shower evolved into round circles - from the signs, to round dot garland, to the round bunt flags etc. Sarah took the round theme to the next level by making all the game cards round! The round game cards were easier for the guests to hold. I love the games they were so pretty! We played, The Baby Price is Right, Finish the Baby Rhyme and Match the Famous Parent to the Baby! With all the excitement we didn't get any pictures of the winning gift bags. 

I wanted each guests to have a yummy parting Thank you treat, so we made pretzels dipped in white chocolate than dipped into white sugar sprinkles. The treat was a yummy sweet and salty snack. I found simple clear treat bags and made. I used various shades of paper in blue and my beloved pear artichoke shade for the labels. 

I had a wonderful day made so much sweeter by the love from my family and friends!! It amazes me how much our little boy is already loved! I'll sum the day up as 'Life is GOOD' 

I'll post a picture of myself in full big baby belly as soon as I can find one I like! lol -- You can't blame me, I'm  9+ mos pregnant and trying my hardest to be a little vain! 

I hope you enjoyed my shower, let me know if you have a questions!