New Recruits...and some fabulous Look 4 Less HACKS!
I have been so busy with the remodel of the site and technical details involved that it has been a bit tough to not only post new content but focus on existing content and improve upon it. All of my efforts mean the DIY Collective is coming right along. Most of the tabs are functional, but some still need to have their entries migrated over and entered into the Linky's (working on it!).
I haven't been scouting for amazing projects that have been done, as much as I would like, so that I might invite the project creators over to join us and share their tutorials with us. But, I have had the pleasure of stumbling upon a couple of projects that are knock your socks off knock offs!
I am proud to share them with you today because seeing work like this just furthers my belief in the amazing talent and resourcefulness out there for all of us to all learn and benefit from!
Today I bring you 2 amazing Ballard Designs Knock Offs! Since Ballard is one of my favorite stores, it was really exciting to stumble across these projects! One of these fabulous ladies (who just happens to live relatively nearby...small world huh?) doesn't even know I am featuring her project today but was kind enough to add it to the DIY Collective a few weeks ago! The other is a brand new addition to the Collective and both are so good, that I actually think I might like them better than the originals! Love it when that happens....
This first beauty is from Ali of Honey and Maple Syrup and is cataloged in the DIY Collective under ACCESSORIES and Art & Wall Decor, listed in the Paintings section. Click on the image to view the Collective and on her site link to view the full tutorial.
I hope she will let me add this project to my Look 4 Less tab! It is an ideal recruit don't you think!
And this next beauty is from Sherry of No Minimalist Here, and is cataloged under ACCESSORIES and Art & Wall Decor as well, only this baby is under the Prints section! I have added this darling to the Look 4 Less tab already and can't wait to give both of these a try.
Grab your buttons girls...you have been featured (see left hand sidebar 'featured on' button if you like)
I hope both of you gals take house calls because I will most likely need some hand holding as I attempt to paint an actual picture (not just furniture) or attempt to burn the edges of the paper without sending the rest of the house up in flames as well!
The phrase 'Controlled Burn' has always seemed a bit ironic to me, probably because of my control freak tendencies, but it will be interesting to see if I can ONLY burn along the edges and keep it from burning a huge gaping hole right in the center of the print, or without frantically throwing it in the sink to stop the burn and destroying it Ipso Facto anyhow!).
Do ya'll accept orders? Perhaps I shouldn't be allowed near the flames and canvas at all, they just might transfer me to a padded cell when they hear my explanation about why my house (and every other house for miles around) has gone up in flames!
"Officer, I was just trying to recreate the look for less...and not just less, but MUCH less! It was all in the name of love for good design, and more importantly...a good knock off!"...
Not to mention I will likely just be throwing money down the drain. Perhaps quite literally if I truly do need to put out the run away flame?
Ok, now here is the Sales Pitch: (or the beginning of it, rest to come later)
I hope you will all visit these lovely ladies and see what else they might have in the way of tutorials that we should all be "group effort" stalking, to recruit and add to the Collective. Not just theirs, but anyone and everyone who produces tutorials...they should be all be avidly and adequately stalked and peer pressured into adding their projects to the Collective! If you see a fabulous tutorial while you are browsing around...leave them a comment or send them an email and politely FORCE them to head over and put up a link so that we all might be able to find it and use it whenever we like!
After all the DIY Collective is the ONLY place on the web that has an organized directory of tutorial projects WITH IMAGES that you don't have to scroll through full post after full post to view or click on a zillion links with only names to clue you in at what lies beyond (you know like if you clicked on the categories a blog uses for organizing, or if someone got clever and created a separate page for their tutorials with links). Just peak at the images in the DIY Collective all neatly lined in rows and choose the ones you like! Easy Peasy... Besides being organized and easy to browse through, the Collective is catalog from all around the interwebs...not just from one site, so you will save yourself having to blog hop and scroll through endless posts on each and every craft blog to find what you are looking for! Can I get an Amen?
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