I Love The Smell Of Mod Podge In The Morning.

They say that once you get a tattoo, you want to get more tattoos. I feel the same way about Mod Podge.

They have oodles of these unfinished frames at Michael's for $1 each. A few weeks ago, they were on sale for $0.66 each. Couple that with a few 40% off coupons and I had myself a project in the making. I grabbed the frames, found some cute scrapbook paper and Mod Podge and went to work.

I traced out the frame onto the back of the scrapbook paper and cut it out:

Then I Mod Podge'd the back of the paper and the front of the frame:

I stuck the paper onto the frame and rolled it out with an old rolling pin.

I waited precisely 15 minutes.  During that time, I fielded several requests for juice and cheese crackers from my children.  I live to serve.

After 15 minutes, I put a layer of Mod Podge over the paper:

I waited another 15 minutes, got more juice and this time grapes and blueberries were requested. I like when they change things up, it keeps things fresh.  I put another coat on and let it dry.  Once it was dry, I thought they looked great.  The hubster did too, but since I can never leave well-enough alone, I had to add a little something extra.  Here's the plain:

Cute, yes? I love that paper!  I cut the rest of the paper into strips for the unnecessary-but-adorable additions.

I bent the paper into shapes; a flower or two, a heart, leaves for the flowers, and stems.  I put them onto scotch tape to keep them in place:

And once I had the whole picture, I glued them to the top, with the tape still attached. It looked like this:

I contemplated leaving the tape on to give it a rustic feel, but my 6-year old said that would be lame.  Six-year olds don't understand sarcasm.

Here's how they turned out:

Is that the funniest face ever? Love it.

Who's the hot chick with the abnormally-large forehead? It's me. Oh, yeah... fashion magazines keep calling to book me, but I don't want to get too famous to go to the grocery store.  That's my version of reality.

If any of you haven't done a Mod Podge project, consider yourself lucky.  I'm trying to find out what the biggest size bucket of Mod Podge is available on the market.  MUST. MOD. PODGE. EVERYTHING.