Pretty Little Thingx: Project #18 - Paintsample-Dot-Wallart

If you know me, you probably know I L-O-V-E colour! Don´t get me wrong, I don´t like to dress like a canary, but I love to add colour to my outfits, my projects, my decoartions,...

When I go to the hardware store (Which happens far to often, they sell so many great things, don´t they?) I allways pick some of the paint samples. Not that I want to paint another wall, my flat is most definitely to smal for another paintet wall, but I like the look of them and simply need to have them...

So I ended up with a lot of sample stripes lately. And I knew I had to do something with them, I would be really sad to simply throw this beautiful colours away.

I had one wall in my living room right behind the TV which was in deep need of something.
I used to have black-flower-wall-stickers from IKEA there, but they´ve been there for more then 3 years and just didn´t look good anymore and started to come of, so I tore them away a few weeks earlier.

And, as allways, I browsed Pinterst, and ... I knew what to do!

My Inspiration:
paint samples from hardware stores + punches = DIY decor squares
Giant Confetti Wall
Polka Dot Garland

My paint sample stripes where stripes that looked like this:

Stripes with five rectangular squares with samples from light to dark. They are quite small in their hight, about 2,5cm, so really quick got rid of the idea to punch circles because they would be really small.

So I decided to cut ovals out...
By hand...

Two hours later I ended up with this.

Then came the fun part. I first tryed to glue them to som thread, but that din´t worked well for me. So I sewd long strings with my sewing maschine. And this worked really well!

I first had some problems with the thread, but the real clue is you have to hold the thread behind the sewing maschine really tight while sewing. (Do you get what I mean? I couln´t even tell exactly what I want to say to you in german...) Hope the photo will help.