DIY Row House Wall Art (so fun for kids!!)

By Mandi 04/07/2015

Remember yesterday when we talked about inspiration not being a destination? How it can happen anywhere, at anytime?

A few weeks ago after a particularly hard mom day (you know those days where you know that no one in your family walked away unscathed?) I was trying to get Dylan in bed. She’s 6 and stubborn and had been fighting me on everything, all.day.long. After trying unsuccessfully for an hour to get her to go to sleep, I finally stepped away for a minute and took myself out of the chaos of the situation. I know on days when I am in a fighting mood I usually just need someone to love me, and that is what she needed too. So I grabbed a book off the shelf and snuggled in for a little story. She fell asleep almost immediately and it gave me a few minutes to breathe. Flipping through the pages and reflecting on life gave me a second to soak up a little inspiration.

I called Jamie (because she is the brilliant mind that illustrates my madness) and told her that I wanted to do a few Madeline inspired row houses. Something that the girls can help me do.

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To make this project, you will need:

Cricut Explore Air
Vintage Revivals Row House designs
Black vinyl
Paint

Start by downloading the row houses in Design Space. They are a Make It Now project which means that they are perfectly sized, all you have to do is load the vinyl and click go.

Typically when you cut out a design in vinyl, you “weed” all the unnecessary parts out and toss them.

DON’T DO THAT!!! hahaha

Weed the inside of the design (the house and the windows/doors) so that it looks like this. Do not weed outside the design!

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This is what you are going for:

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The next step is to take the outside of the house (the part that you would normally throw away) and put it on the wall. It doesn’t have to be perfectly straight, wonky is embraced at all times on Vintage Revivals.

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Then you are going to paint inside the shape. I only did one coat because I sort of the love the splotchy variation for this project.

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Peel off the vinyl, and now (finally!!) you can throw it away.

Paint all of your houses, and after they have had at least 12 hours to dry you can start to put on the vinyl.

If you want to use transfer tape you can, but we placed everything by hand. I showed Dyl a picture of the houses on the computer and she did her best to match it.

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Can you picture an entire wall filled with these guys? Oh my gosh, someone needs to do that.

Today’s #cricuteverywhere giveaway is such a good one,  1 year subscription to all of the images on Design Space, or Cricut Craft Room!!

Just to clear up any lingering questions… Design Space is a free downloadable software, you are not winning that (because everyone already wins! It’s free!!) you are winning yearlong access to over 50,000 single images, image sets, and fonts, including all of the Make It Now projects (like this one!!)

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To enter this giveaway: All you have to do is a post a photo on Instagram of your favorite spot in your house! Hashtag it with #cricuteverywhere and be sure to follow @vintagerevivals and @officialcricut. Please tag me in your picture, I want to see!!

For more info on today’s giveaway click here.

Pssst. If you are ordering a Cricut Explore Air, use the coupon code STARTER to get 50% off any starter set (this one is my favorite!)

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14 thoughts on “DIY Row House Wall Art (so fun for kids!!)”

  1. I don’t know why, I find all this very parisian for some reason. don’t bother, it’s 8pm past 24 here so it must be the rosé talking oups
    à la votre !

  2. I agree with Michelle…as my 4 yr. old grandson says, “No fay-ah” (fair, he can’t say his Rs)
    I’m blocked out of this giveaway…

  3. This is awesome! Another reason for me to get the Cricut Explore Air. I’m just trying to confirm with someone that this will cut leather over and over and over! I have a big project coming up!
    Any advice?

  4. Let me guess, yet another giveaway for Americans only? couldn’t find the entry rules on this so I could be wrong but after much complaining some sites have have finally started including Canada ! North America is all one place people ! Canada and the states are more culturally similar than any other country that the States exports their blogs, ideas, stuff to….and needs to start being included in OFFERS!!!! Aside from that…Holy awesome plant pot!, the big white faceted round one ….is that also an older West Elm score that doesn’t exist anymore?? Where to get pulllease…!

  5. Those are cute!

    But I really love the planter off to the side. Can you tell me where you got that? Thanks!

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