mission complete!

Everyone loves Pinterest. But last week I learned a little lesson from Pinterest: DON'T GO INTO IT BLINDLY.

I love finding ideas for crafts and decorations on Pinterest and I have created many of them. This project was for the last frame on my frame wall and it came from Pinterest, of course. And, of course, I didn't look at any directions. I just looked at the picture and the caption.

It was this picture:

With this caption: Elmer's Glue art

Pretty simple, right? And I even saw another one that suggested painting over the glue. What a great idea!

And so it began.

I started with my sketch.

Then the glue. This was kind of a painstaking process. It took a long time and I wasn't very happy with how it looked.

After it was all said and done I was ended up being pretty pleased with it. And I knew it would look better when I painted it. I let it dry over night and the morning only brought disappointment. The glue had totally flattened as it dried. I should have taken a picture but I was too mad.

I decided to do some research. By research I mean CLICKING ON THE LINK in Pinterest. Not that hard. I should have started there. She used puffy paint. PUFFY PAINT. Some genius saw that picture and thought "Oh, I bet Elmer's glue would dry just like that picture." LIES. Don't get me wrong, I really appreciated the ingenuity and creativity but next time let's take a fraction of a second and click through the link to see exactly how to achieve the picture.

Luckily I was at the craft store a couple days later and picked up a bottle of puffy paint for a measly dollar. The next afternoon was spent painstakingly redoing what I had already done. It looked much better and I was really happy with it.

After a few layers of paint. 

And in the frame.

Frame wall complete! Yay!