Jul 22, 2013

Baking Cup Art

Hi Everyone!!

Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a great weekend. Question for ya?

So what do you get when you combine an unused canvas, remnant paint, and cupcake baking cups?




Why baking cup art, of course!!  This was such a fun and gratifying project.  I posted on Istagram a while ago about the vast blank spot wall in the family room and asked for ideas on how to fill it.  On Saturday I attended an event on color at my local West Elm and spotted this on a huge wall in the store:


I was completely shocked when I realized it was cupcake baking cups!!  I knew I just HAD to have it somewhere in our home and I knew exactly how I was gonna do it.

I inherited a very large piece of art from a friend a while ago.  It was sitting in the garage because I was saving it to reuse the canvas at some point.




 
This project was incredibly easy.  I was a little time consuming, but once I got in a groove it went very quickly. I started by spraying painting the frame and brushing out the entire canvas white. After it dried I hot glued the baking cups to the canvas
 
 


 
I ended up using five bags of 75 count baking cups for this project. Next I just painted the inside of the cups in leftover paint I had on hand.  I chose coral, mint, grey and chartreuse for my color palette. 
 
 
 
 
I love the visual texture of the cups. I hate the visual texture of that damn knock down texture on the walls.  Gah....why did the builders go there!?
 
 


I love how this project turned out. 
 
 
 
Thank you West Elm for the inspiration.  Until next time.....
 
XoXo-Shavonda







30 comments:

  1. Store displays can be a great source of inspiration and you executed this idea in your home really well ... great results and a nice addition to the wall. Perfect color palette you came up with from leftover paint, really is a great offset to the royal blue wall. The coral color looks to be the shade I've been searching for (mine keep going too pink) ... happen to know the name / brand? Have a great week, Robin

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  2. oh wow... never would have guessed and I love the color!

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  3. How creative! This is such a neat idea. I love it! I love the colors you chose.

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  4. Love this! And I love that West Elm is inspiring all of us! lol!

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  5. Get the heck out! This is so cool! Love it and pinning ;)

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  6. This is such an amazing idea! The colors you used work so well together!

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  7. I love this! It's cheap and adorable and it doesn't look like its cheap. The colors are perfect and your version is way better than the west elm one but don't tell them I said that :x

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  8. looks great Shavonda!!! So cool!!!

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  9. Such a fun project!! Can't wait to see in person :)

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  10. Great knock off! I loved it.
    xoxo Becca

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  11. shavonda! you are so clever! i wondered what you were up to- looks awesome!

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  12. Love it.. I have to make one. I only hope the colors come out as well as yours. It looks beautiful.

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  13. This is so cool! I don't think I would have enough patience for this but it really did turn out so pretty! Time well spent :-)

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  14. What a cool idea!! Love this! Color is awesome too.

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  15. ha! what a cool idea! love the colors you chose :)

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  16. This looks great! Who would've thought that baking cups could look this amazing.
    Sarah

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  17. This is so pretty! I love the colors you chose. I am totally going to do this, thank you for sharing! =)

    Jen =)

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  18. Oh My Goodness! I ADORE this project, and that we seem to have the same thoughts on a few things... like dark blue paint and oil painted furniture! Going to check out more of your blog :)

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  19. This is amazing! We just moved and I have an empty wall in my dining room that I have no idea what to do with, now I do!

    www.goingupupandaway.blogspot.com

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