Doing It With Tara: Contact Paper Décor0 Comments

by Tara Diane

I really love this project, contact paper décor, because it’s great if you’re renting or living somewhere short term and want to jazz up the walls.  If you’re renting you probably don’t want to paint, since you’ll just have to paint over it when you leave, and probably don’t want to spend a bunch of money on vinyl wall decals that cost a fuck-ton and aren’t reusable.  These aren’t reusable either, but they only cost $6 worth of contact paper and an hour of your time.  So… on with the tutorial!

What You’ll Need:

• A roll of contact paper.  I used a black faux leather one because I’m classy as shit.  And, more importantly, because they were out of solid black at Home Depot.
• An exacto-knife or other razor cutter, with a new blade
• Scissors
• Various circled things to trace (I used a crappy album, a CD, and a coaster)
• A surface to cut on that you don’t mind messing up

Roll out the contact paper and start tracing circles, then cut them out with your razor cutter.  I made seven album-sized circles, then a bunch of small and medium circles (too lazy to count, see last image if you need to).

Now, we’re going to go back to second grade for a minute.  Remember making snowflakes out of coffee filters?  If not, your childhood was terrible.  But, just in case, here is a video to refresh you.

Ta-dah.  I only cut the “snowflake” shapes into the large circles, the small and medium circles were left alone.  I don’t really think they look like snowflakes, more like decorative circles.  Maybe?  Hopefully?

Once you’re done cutting them all out, peel the adhesive backing and start sticking those puppies to the wall!

And, you’re done!  Enjoy your mildly cool looking and incredibly cheap new wall design.

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