free botanical art
I have a little DIY for you this Friday. I am certainly not the first to share this one, I got all my inspiration from Chic on a Shoestring one day while scrolling through Pinterest! Check out how beautifully she pulls it off here: https://www.chiconashoestringdecoratingblog.com/2012/10/31-days-of-decorating-on-shoestring_5.html
A few years ago we were just moving into our first house and overwhelmed by blank walls! I have talked before about how expensive wall art is. I am always looking for a way around spending tons of money on it.
So one day around the time we moved in I happened to walk into WalMart to find diploma frames for $1 each. Let’s be honest–these were really unattractive frames but I happily grabbed four for under $5 and went on the hunt for something to put in them!
I settled on some leaf prints on Etsy for about $10 each (before I knew about the FREE) and created a little botanical wall. Here the same prints are at our new house in the bedroom. I am not super thrilled with them in here…but I had them so I used them. I have one-day plans of wallpapering this one wall and revamping the leaves in gold frames with clear matting!
Now, for my second round of botanical prints for the even more blank walls we faced in the new house, I used the huge and FREE collection available at the Missouri Botanical Garden website!
Click here http://www.botanicus.org/item/31753002839139# and on the left side you can scroll past everything that says “text” until you see things that say “plate 1″ plate 2” etc. Click on those are they are nice looking!
I ended up sending mine to the UPS Store and paid around $3 to have about 10 printed on card stock (in case a few didn’t turn out right).
This time I bought frames from Hobby Lobby (with a coupon of course) and ended up spending $6 per frame…not super cheap when you need 6 of them, but it turned out so nice looking I think it was worth it! Here is my finished product:
I get compliments on this little collection all the time and everyone is amazed to hear I printed them off the Missouri Botanical Garden site for free, so now you know too!
