Inspiration: Make Your Own Art

Not only is making your own artwork for your home a wallet-friendly endeavor, it's also a great way to customize your decor with the exact colors and patterns you want as well as an opportunity to connect (or re-connect) with that childhood pleasure of making something.

Here are some of our favorite projects to inspire you. Many only take an hour or so.

Top Row:
1 Easy Peasy DIY Alphabet Canvases
2 DIY Vintage Fabric Wall Art
3 Nigella Silhouettes
4 Silhouettes In Under 30 Minutes
5 Alphabet Letter Wall Display

Bottom Row:
6 Create A Marble Painting Masterpiece
7 Clothesline Hair Clip Holder
8 Animal Art Templates
9 Framing Book Art
10 Quilt-Inspired Wall Art

Categories: Family, Artwork

Posted by Carrie McBride

As Apartment Therapy's Family Editor, Carrie covers design and modern homelife with children. A lapsed librarian, she lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two kids and is in contention to break the record for most hours spent at the playground.
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Comments (2)

here's another silhouette tutorial that is super simple…http://www.simplymodernmom.com/2010/08/framed-fabric-silhouettes-tutorial/

and a canvas tree art made from magazine pages http://www.simplymodernmom.com/2010/01/tree-canvases/

The clothesline hair clip holder is adorable.

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