Kid's Letter Decoration

This is a quick little project that I did for a little girl named Charlotte.

I knew that she didn't really need any more clothes or blankets, so I wanted to make a decoration for her room. Baby girls have a proliferation of things pink and purple, so I wanted to go in a different direction. Blue is my favourite colour, so it would represent me. :)

I bought the letter and the small package of paper flowers at Michael's. The flowers were near the scrapbooking things if you want to pick some up. You could also get a plain wood letter, but I thought the white would be nicer if it ended up showing through.

A little bit of hot glue was all that was needed to attach them to the wooden letter.

I started at the top corner and was going to work my way around, but I thought I might end up attaching the flowers in straight lines by accident, so I started to go random.

I actually took this picture on the blue paper (from the big stash of card making paper) just so it would stand out some and you could see what I was doing. But I do like how this looks where you could have a fairly plain letter with a few accent flowers stand out against a bold coloured wall. But I didn't know what colour Charlotte's room was, so I just kept going with the flowers.

Here's it completed covered. Only a few hot glue burns in the process!

I did have an assistant in the process and this was her project.

I don't know if it comes through in this picture very well, but I added a few sparkle gems (also from the card making supplies) in the middle of some flowers just to finish it off. If you compare it to the picture above, you can see one in the blue flower on the left side. I was surprised at how much of a difference those little details made.

This whole thing took maybe 30 minutes and cost about $10. Super easy, but super cute!

Here's Charlotte looking thrilled with her gift!

~Lisa