Howto: Contact Paper Wall Art
October 1st, 2008If you’re anything like me you love window shopping at the numerous online vinyl art shops (blik is of course a fave). Unfortunately, I’m on a college student budget and can’t really afford to spend 50-100 dollars on something that just sits on my wall. Me and David really wanted to paint the apartment but realized it’s kind of frivolous since we plan on moving in a year. I decided to get some contact paper and make my own wall decorations, the place was just looking so dull!
I wanted to make something really simple, so this is what I came up with 
. All you need is:
- exacto-knife with a new blade (it goes dull quick with this project)
- black contact paper (surprisingly hard to find, but amazon.com has it)
- sharp pair of scissors
- assorted circles (I chose an old record, a coaster, a shot glass, and a terrible downloaded horror movie DVD)
From here all you do is find a surface you don’t mind messing up a little (I always use the bottom of my coffee table :-/ ), spread out the contact paper and cut out some circles with the exacto-knife. Fold the circles up like you used to do when you were little to make snowflakes (if you’ve never done this, here’s a tutorial. SKIP STEP 6.) Now all you have to do is peel the backs off and stick them to the wall!
Super cheap way to decorate. I also did some small polka dots on my bathroom wall.
October 2nd, 2008 at 5:58 pm
This is beyond rad. What a gread idea.
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:29 pm
I pretty much used contact paper for everything except its actual use, heh.
October 7th, 2008 at 3:59 am
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September 21st, 2009 at 2:48 pm
now that it’s nearly a year later, you’re probably looking at moving soon. Did the contact paper damage the wall at all?
I’d like to do something similar in the nursery we’re painting
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