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Apr 9 2014

a housewarming gift

Posted by hayley
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You’ve heard of the Waterlogue app for iPhone/iPad, right?
Right?!
Oh man, if not… let’s just say it’s rocked my world. Coming from someone who actually IS an artist, this app is phenomenal. Basically it translates any photograph you take into a watercolor “painting” in a very fluid and intuitive way.

There are hundreds of uses for this kind of digital art, but the week I bought the app ($3), my lovely friends were having a housewarming party for their very first home. And you can’t show up to a housewarming party without a handmade gift! (or at least I can’t)

This is the photo I snapped of their house when they were unawares.

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It helps that it’s a seriously gorgeous home to begin with.

I ran the photo through 2 of the different Waterlogue filters and combined them in photoshop to get this:

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Inkjet printers work great on cold press watercolor paper – just adjust the settings to “cardstock.” It’s hard to tell from the photo, but the textured paper makes it look like an actual painting.

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“Home is the nicest word there is.”  –  Laura Ingalls Wilder

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I also folded heavyweight cardstock paper and printed some personalized notecards with matching envelopes. Cute, right?

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I only had birthday and christmas wrapping paper in the house, so I doodled with a sharpie on a roll of brown kraft paper instead.

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A little bakers twine and banner topped it off just right.

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Buying your first home is such a big deal and I couldn’t be happier for them! It doesn’t take a lot of money or time to put together a meaningful housewarming gift – just a little creativity and a very cool app.

* as of this posting, waterlogue is not yet available on Andriod devices. :(

Tags: gift ideas, handmade, paper crafts
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I'm Hayley. Wife and mother by day, DIY enthusiast by night. Fueled by sweet tea and jelly beans, I own power tools and know how to use them. Consider yourself warned.

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