Wall Art



This project is so easy and you will LOVE the end result! This would make a great gift for someone, you can put each 8.5" x 11" sheet into a cheap frame (try a dollar store) and stack them in a box for your friend to put up in their house. If you do this though, make sure to number each square so theyiwha know the order to put it up in! I made my wall art huge - about 6 feet across! It makes a perfect headboard in our bedroom! If you try out this awesome project, please share it on the Forum.

First you need to download a really great FREE program called "The Rasterbator". This program is going to take your ordinary photo and turn into a work of art! I think there is a way to just upload your photo to the site, but I downloaded the program because I know I'll want to use it again. You should also pick the photo you'll use and decide whether you will be doing color or black and white. Depending on how big you plan to make your wall art, this project could take A LOT of ink. If you'd like to save on the ink, take it to an office supply store and have it printed. They will use a laser printer and charge you a flat rate per page. Click Here to Download "The Rasterbator"
You might want to increase the contrast and the sharpness in your photo, but this is optional. I use a great program called Photoscape for all my photo editing - it's free of course! You will find about a zillion uses for this program (and no, I have no personal interest in you downloading this software - it's free, remember?) I use it all the time. Now open The Rasterbator and upload the photo you have chose. Chose your output size, dot size, color/black and white and 'rasterbate'! *Make sure you pay attention to the step that shows you a preview. You need to know how many pages across your project will be. You will then be able to open the project in Adobe reader. Your photo is now enlarged and pixelated, but instead of square pixels it's a bunch of dots! It is also broken into 8.5" x 11" pages that you can print on any standard printer. Print your project, being careful not to mess up the order of the pages as they come out of the printer. Take the stack of ordered pages somewhere flat where you have enough room to spread them all out. I did it on my bed. Start in the top, left hand corner and place each page beside the next in rows. This kind of an extra step, but I did it because I didn't want to put it all up and then see that it was reversed or something. Wall Art
Now you can choose how you want to display your artwork. You can either attach the sheets to some heavy poster board or foam board, or you can frame each sheet, or you can do it the easy way and attach it directly to the wall as I did. I promise it doesn't look like a bunch of paper on the wall! I put some snail adhesive on the back of each sheet and placed it on the wall, sooo easy! Make sure to make some light pencil marks on the wall where the bottom border of the wall art should be. Once you get the first line of sheets in place, the rest will all build off that. Wall Art
Keep adding more and more pages and your project will reveal itself before your eyes! Wall Art
This is the finished project! Wall Art

I'm probably going to add a little detail to the front of the organizer. If you have any other details to add, or other possible uses for this handy organizer, please share them on the Forum Page!