Tween Bedroom Makeover Part II

Still working on updating my teen's bedroom for a more 'mature' look, the most expensive part of the makeover will probably be the bedding set. Her current bedding set was a pink and green polka dot quilted set, that she apparently hated since the day it first graced her bed. Who knew? I had no idea she despises pink, as always, I'm the last to know :)

So, I fell in love with this one I found on Overstock.com. After getting final approval, I made the purchase.  As soon as we put it on, it started to inspire me.  She had a completely blank, white, empty wall above her bed, so I wanted to cover that with something of a larger scale. I really enjoy large groupings of pictures and art, but I've found through trial, error, and a 'hole' lotta drywall patching, that I'm not gifted in that area. But I thought I could arrange squares evenly on the wall. Cost was, again, an issue, so after perusing a few stores, purchasing frames was out of the question. Even with a 50% off sale, I'd find myself spending over $50 in the frames alone, which I wasn't willing to do right away. Knowing it will likely be changed within the next year or two, I was looking for something cheaper.  Finally I settled on large pieces of foamboard, which I thought would hang pretty easily from the wall using Command wall hanging stickers. I hit Hobby Lobby on the perfect week, because Foam Board was 50% off and scrapbook paper was also 50% off. The  foam board ran me $5.99 for two large sheets I used one whole sheet and 1/3 of the other.  9 sheets of scrapbook paper ran me about $2.70 and I had the Command stickers already on hand.  I chose my scrapbook paper in various designs of black and white, to play along with the comforter in the room.

Here's what I did:
1. I started out by gluing the scrapbook paper onto the foam board using Mod Podge, which is usually my best bet for fast, easy adhesion. WRONG. A simple glue stick worked much, much better!

2. After gluing all the 12" by 12" inch pieces of scrapbook paper, I took my super sharp exacto knife and cut out around each piece. This I did extremely slowly so that 1, I didn't cut into my scrapbook paper and 2. my foam board resulted in nice, sharp edges, not crumbled up edges that look like a took a butter knife to them!

3.  I then arranged the pieces the way I wanted them to look on the wall and affixed the strips to the back of the boards and placed them on the wall, starting with the center tile.  One more thing I decided to do was to hot glue an initial that I had previously covered in scrapbook paper a few weeks ago.  It had been hanging out in her room with no purpose or function. 

WALL BEFORE:

(I'm hoping that showing the world how she leaves her bed will encourage her to start making it more regularly (: )

AFTER:

One more thing I did was to use some of the leftover foam board to mount a picture she had made in school. The picture was rolled up and tied with a rubber band, so I had to roll it the opposite way and glued it onto the foam board and hung on an adjacent wall. This is a picture just prior to me mounting it:



Well, it is a work in progress, and I hope to get the rest of it done soon. I'll keep you updated. Until then, stay warm and blessed!