All Dressed Up Initial Art

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It's a dreary Saturday afternoon. Rain. Rain. Rain. I guess I shouldn't complain; it could be ice, which would be normal for this time of year. Or snow. I don't do snow. I know there are plenty of you out there that LOVE winter, snow and all. I'm not among you. I'm a flip-flop-weather gal. I spend the winter prayin' for spring.

Anyway, rain keeps us indoors, and I came up with this project after seeing this one at Design Sponge.

Design Sponge

Isn't it awesome? Ampersands are quite in vogue right now, and these girls came up with a couple different ampersand art ideas using cut-outs from items on hand. Head on over for their tutorial, or stay tuned here for mine!

All you need is some card stock, a few magazines, some scissors, and a glue stick. The magazines should be of the variety that typically has lots of pictures of flowers.

Flip through the magazines and clip pictures of flowers and greenery. The trick here, well actually there are two tricks: use tiny scissors for cutting tiny objects; and cut close to the edge of the image, creating curves and points where they happen in nature. Cut LOTS of pictures, especially the really small ones.

If you don't have a lot of magazines lying around, there is still a way to accomplish this look, and you don't have to change out of your sweat pants and ponytail to do it.

The Graphics Fairy is a wonderful blog with tons and tons of vintage botanical printables. You can copy and paste any of the images and size them to your liking. Print them out on light-weight cardstock for easy cutting. Here's a sampling of what I found:

Use Microsoft Word to make your initial. Play around with different fonts and font sizes until you get it exactly like you want it. Print it out and cut it out. Now lightly trace it onto a fresh sheet of cardstock and start gluing all your little cut-outs in place. Use the curvy flowers for the curvy parts of the initial. Use the smallest ones to fill in dead space. I recommend dealing with the largest pieces first.

When you've covered all the space in your outlined initial, say Ta Da! You've created rainy day art.
If you have a rainy day craft to share, send it along!

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