ABC Wall Art

A few months ago I bought these gorgeous eeBoo All Around the Land, Wall Art - Alphabet Cards, but was at odds on how to hang them in D's room. Well, last week I finally settled on how to do it, and this weekend I tackled the project. And they turned out amazing!!

I know you want them too... So here is how its done:

Materials:

Box of eeBoo ABC cards
5' piece of moulding
Hot Glue Gun
White paint & Paint brush
11 eye hooks (I used #14 "screw eyes")
5 colors of ribbon
lighter
double sided tape
pencil
ruler and/or measuring tape

How To:

1. First lay out your cards and decide how you want your rows to look. You must have: 2 rows of 5, two rows of 6 and 1 row of 4 for this to work. I chose 5, 6, 5, 6, 4... I also considered starting with 4, but thought this looked best. Keep in mind if you choose a different pattern #7 in these instructions will be a little different for you.

2. Paint moulding and set aside to dry.

3. Cut ribbon into strips 5'2" long and burn each end with a lighter to prevent fraying. I used 5 colors; blue, green, gold, orange & purple, and two sizes; 1/4"x18' & 3/8"x15'. Four of the colors will have two strips and one will have three, equaling 11 pieces total.

4. Using a small bead of hot glue, fold the end of each ribbon through each eye hook and press tight. Be sure that you dont glue the ribbon to the eye hook, you want it to move freely.

5. Now, this was the hard part: Figure out how far apart each eye hook needs to be so that they are evenly spaced...
I started in the middle on the bottom of the moulding 1/4" from the back edge (side touching the wall) and using a pencil made a small mark; then made 5 marks in each direction measuring 4 15/16" apart and 1/4" from the back edge. So I had 11 small pencil marks on the bottom of the moulding each measuring 4 15/16" apart.

6. Now gently screw in each of the eye hooks where your pencil marks are (the marks are hard to see in these pics, sorry). The order I used for my colors were: blue, orange, purple, gold, green, purple, blue, orange, purple, gold, green.

7. To hang the cards: Turn the moulding over so the back side is facing up. 

First Row, 5 cards: Turn the cards face down and apply 2 pieces of double sided tape on the top & bottom of the middle of the back of each card. Then, starting with A on your right, put each card underneath the 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th & 10th ribbons. Measure 2" from the bottom of the eye hook to the top of the card and smooth the ribbon along the pieces of tape. 

Second Row, 6 cards: Repeat tape and, starting with F on your right, turn face down underneath the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th & 11th ribbons. Measure 14" from the bottom of the eye hook to the top of the card and smooth ribbon along pieces of tape.

Third Row, 5 cards: Repeat tape and, starting with L on your right, put each card underneath the 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th & 10th ribbons. Measure 14" from the bottom of the First Row to the top of the card and smooth the ribbon along the pieces of tape.

Fourth Row, 6 cards: Repeat tape and, starting with Q on your right, turn face down underneath the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th & 11th ribbons. Measure 14" from the bottom Second Row to the top of the card and smooth ribbon along pieces of tape.

Last Row, 4 cards: Repeat tape and, starting with W on your right, turn face down underneath the 3rd, 5th, 7th & 9th ribbons. Measure 2" from the bottom Fourth Row to the top of the card and smooth ribbon along pieces of tape.

And Voila! You now have a beautiful, fun piece of artwork for your cute little kiddo!!