Botanical Gallery Wall

Several of you guessed my latest project correctly!  

I used my new botanical book  for a fabulous gallery wall in the kitchen.  

The pages are just about 9x11" and sweet Emily Clark tipped me off to some great budget-friendly frames at Michael's.  They are 11x14" and come in a 2-pack for $7.99.  I used a coupon and ended up getting each frame for about $3. Even though they are plastic frames, I think they look relatively high end, and the backs were super quick and easy to remove and put back together.

To remove the pages cleanly from the book, I used an X-Acto knife to cut the page while holding the spine open as far as possible.  Once the page was out I used my scrapbooking paper trimmer to clean up the cut edge a bit.  

Before framing the prints I spread them all out on the floor and worked with them until I found an arrangement that I liked.  Then, I took pictures so I would remember the order to put them in when ready to hang them on the wall.

The pictures are mounted on a piece of white poster board...easy peasy!    

The hardest part of the project was marking the wall, but even that was simpler than I thought it would be.  It just involved some persistent work with a tape measure and my trusty laser level.  I used two nails close to the top corners of each picture so they wouldn't get crooked on the wall every time the kids slam the back door.  ;-)

I'm really loving the cleaner-but dramatic-look on this wall. As a reminder, here it was a few weeks ago:

and here it is today:

I hope your weekend is fun and productive!  There's a pillow-making fest going on here, and, I'm behind on some e-mails.  Promise I'll catch up this weekend!

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