Picture gallery wall

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After the reveal of the DIY stenciled curtains post, we received some e-mails asking about my picture gallery wall.  Ask and ye shall receive! ;)  Here it is all finished up:

To create my gallery wall, I started with an old Ikea frame, {which was originally cream,} and framed a family picture that was printed on foam board.  The frame was painted brownish-black and then finally green... sometimes I just don't know how the project will end up! lol 

From there, I just gathering this frame 'n that frame from my storage closet until I had enough pieces to fill the space and continued painting them.  
I love this wooden letter "J" that I received my cute sis-in-law Cat awhile ago and finally painted it, {the same robin egg blue as in the curtains} and brushed some black paint around the edges:
I had 3 funky frames in my stash and knew they would be a fun element to add to the collage so I slathered them in leftover brown paint from my recent distressed crib post:

NOTE: As with most of my projects, I was putting this together during naptime and couldn't run to the store but wanted to hang the pictures before my little guy awoke so I popped a few tabs from canned soup and used them as picture hangers.  See the full tutorial/pop tab trick here ;)  I saw this personalized art date print from cute Rachel @ Holy Craft and immediately knew what to put in last empty frame.  I whipped this printable up in Photoshop {using this font} and am loving the simple {free} touch that added some personality into the space: 

Yes, baby #2 is due in just a few short weeks and we will be updating this ;)
After everything was dry & framed, I laid out how I wanted the to gallery to look:

Now to hang it!I hung the biggest piece first, my now-green framed foam board {picture taken when my son was a newborn by my sweet friend Tara Bowman} then hung the date art, my blue J and finally the funky frames {our family picture in the top funky frame was taken by the talented Marry Jordan}, leveling as I went:

Pretty happy with how it turned out!

And you know what, I am always amazed at how the pretty pops of color can brighten my mood when I walk into this space :)

If you have any questions, just holler!  There are some cut examples on our Pinterest wall/gallery board if you need more inspiration. ;)

PS: Linking up to these fun parties this week