Lovely Photo Letters

After I saw Tatertots & Jello's tutorial on making a decorative ladder, I really wanted one.  So I made one!  Her tutorial is great, but as always I managed to make things more difficult than they needed to be.  So I added my lessons learned to my own post on my ladder making experience.  I used it to display Christmas cards and photos from past Christmases during the holidays.  I loved it!

But then the holidays were over.  What to put on it next?

Then I saw a guest post on Tatertots & Jello by Stacie from The Three Sweet Peas and I knew what I wanted to do.

Her tutorial was on how to make photo wall art using your printer, regular printer paper, tissue paper, a little Mod Podge, and wood letters.  Genius really!

This is what you get...

And this...

This is my favorite

And the whole thing...

So much fun!  I already love decorating with photos, and this was a great change from my everyday photos in a frame.  I think photos could look great printed like this and displayed in different ways too.  I'm playing with a few.

While doing this project I learned two tricks:

1. My printer wouldn't feed the tissue covered paper through the top feed.  I had to put it in the tray.

2. After I drilled my holes to hang my letters, some of them were hanging more skewompous than I wanted.  So rather than drilling a second hole, I used strips of magnets with sticky backs.  I just placed little pieces on the sides that were hanging too high, and ta-daa!  It balanced the letters and fixed my problem!  No one even notices.

Now on to other projects.  I couldn't sleep last night, and in my sleepless tossing and turning I started to come up with plans on how to make your own decorative shelf ladder - something like this...

Photo from hahoy.com

If I can make it work I'll post a tutorial on here.