For the love of paper!

So last night I was able to sneak out ALL BY MYSELF!!  I decided I wasn't going to waste my freedom on going food shopping or running other necessary errands.  I headed over to Legacy Place in Dedham to one of my absolute favorite stores, Paper Source.  After spending over an hour perusing all the fabulousness, here is what I ended up with:

Some cool large sheets of decorative paper...

This is hilarious, get it? baby shower wrapping paper!  HA, love it!

Some 3-D cardboard letters...

earlier in the day I was at the craft store A.C. Moore with the boys (yes, we made a scene, lol) I got some lovely ribbon...

Not exactly sure what I am going to do with it all...hoping for greatness.

I may try my hand at decoupage!

 Stay tuned for the results!

And we have some preliminary results:

I made these for Nolan and Sean's bedroom to go along with their pirate theme.  Arrrrrrrgh!

I wish I could give step by step instructions, but I was a bit of a mess.  I can give some tips.

Here are my supplies:

Flip the paper over and trace the letter leaving an extra 1/2 an inch...

(do you like my tracing tool, couldn't find a pencil!)

I was going to use this

But I couldn't get the jar open and my husband wasn't home, so I used Mod Podge

 I painted the Mod Podge on the letter and on the paper.

anywhere there was any kind of curve I cut slits.  For the "S" I basically cut fringe all around in.  Once you do this on both sides and you glue it on you can cover your "fringe" marks with strips of paper.

 

I did one side at a time, letting each side dry before I did the other.  When I finished each side I completely covered it with Mod Podge and then left it dry before continuing.  I wish I got the glossy one, the one I bought was matte.  Anyway, I covered up any "fringe" marks or blanks spots with strips.