Project #1 - Rose pictures....

Well, I have a room in my house that I've been meaning to update. It's okay as it is but it doesn't have that wow feel and it's a bit out-dated. It's my entry room. It's done in blue and very 80's country. I'm going to change the accessories and make it more cottage/garden. I always have fun changing things up. If I had the money and time I'd probably gut the whole room,

 but I don't so I'm not.

The first thing I'll be doing is making some accessories

 to go in the room. I'll be sharing them as the days go on.

Project #1

I have this old book that has pictures of roses in it,

I thought that would be great to use to frame a couple of pictures.

Cottage style can always use roses.

The book is really old but has great pics of roses. I want to add a bit of red

 to the room so these are the two I chose...

I had these old picture frames that will work just fine...

a little black paint....

I decided to go with a green matt. I simply cut the paper

to fit the frame and matted the picture on top of it...

I also added a touch of gold to highlight the frame...

Here's the result without the gold, I took the picture before I added it...

I really like the way they turned out.

I'm not going to put them up until I finish some other projects.

Stay tuned....