Project Revealed

Well we are finally done with our little project. The wait is finally over and you can now see what we have been up to the past couple of days.

Here are a couple of photos of the finished product. We plan to hang it in our office when we move at the end of May.

The how to:
First we painted our wood with a gel medium

Next we put the images we wanted face down on the wood. We choose a black and white picture of an old airplane, a spitfire, Alex's favorite airplane.

After the gel medium had dried we wet the paper and rubbed it off (this took a long time)

One panel after we had rubbed off the paper

painting on the mod podge to seal the picture to the wood. 

Our inspiration came from this piece from Pottery Barn. It cost $299, the total cost for making our project was $45.23!

Here is another picture we made with the leftover wood:

Inspired Crafting

This afternoon I (Elise) was flipping through one of my favorite home furnishing store's magazine and saw something I really liked, then I looked at the price. Needless to say Alex and I decided we could not/would not spend that much money on it. Then Alex says, "we could make that." My initial reaction was "yeah right." But then I started thinking about different blog posts I'd seen of people being creative, which gave me some ideas. That's when I started to figure out how we could make it happen.

Now, I'm being pretty vague about all of this so far. That is because we are going to do two blog posts. This first one we are not going to tell you what this thing is we are creating. See if you can figure it out. Once we are finished we will post the second part of this blog and then we can get more detailed.
So without further ado here is our inspired crafting thus far:

Here are some of the supplies:

After the wood pieces were cut into various sizes:

Laying out the pieces into a pattern we like:

Clamping the wood together to keep it in place:

Alex hard at work screwing in the supports:

Supports to hold the pieces all together:

All the pieces connected at last:

Where are we going with this piece next? Any guesses? We would love to hear what you think! Excited to continue creating this and excited to show you the finished product!