I have also done a mural for DS1's room, which is a midnight blue with back motocross stickers (it looks like they are all jumping their bikes) and silver stars in the sky. Again I used stencils for the stars but I spray painted them on which looks awesome. For the details I found less is more, so there is a lot of space on the wall that is not covered with stars. Stickers can be a great addition to a mural, combined with paint, and there are lots of companies that sell vinyl stickers at a great price. Ebay is a great place to look for them, even just for ideas.
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Trav ~ Your room is pretty cool, it is amazing how something so simple can add so much to the room!
Yea, I plan to stick some glow in the dark stars on after I finish aswell to add more depth to it.
I've thought about doing wall murals for the kid's rooms as well (just have to wait to find out if the new bundle is pink or blue to work out which rooms will eventually be the girl/boy room). Like someone else mentioned, I was thinking about the projector idea. I was planning on getting the picture printed onto projector paper and hiring a projector (lke the type in schools and unis), then I slapped myself on the head because I remembered that we actually have a projector (the home theater type) that is just in the garage because we don't have a theatre room in this house but we did in the old house, lol. I figure I could probably hook that up and have it just display the picture and hopefully I could do it that way...
I painted a tree on my DS2's bedroom wall (it's now DD's room)
I was looking through a baby magazine and saw the tree in a tiny little pic and loved it. Found the website were you could buy the wall sticker for it which was over $100, couldn't justify paying that so i decided to paint it myself. I printed out the tree as big as i possibly could, A4 or A3 i can't remember and from there i drew a stensil of it myself.
I did this by sticking A4 pieces of paper to the wall and also together as i made my way up drawing the trunk and the branches and the leaves. It's pretty much the height of the wall. Once i had completed the stensil of the tree i cut it out and stuck it to the wall where i then traced around it with pencil. Once i had the tree drawn on the wall i then began to paint it.
The bedroom has 3 blue walls and 1 white which the tree is painted on.
I got so much satifaction out of painting the tree it was a huge accomplishment. So if you can figure out how to do it go for it, i'm sure your little one will love it.
The tree itself was very simple, i only needed two colours of paint.
Good luck If i get a moment (probably after kids are in bed tonight) i could try and figure out how to do link
ok!
I think I can say I'm finished! Well... I have to say I'm done otherwise Im just going to keep adding to it and it will never be done. but I think it will do. All I have to do now is wait for my glow in the dark stars to come in the mail and i can stick them on. Its not perfect, not as good as I pictured..but I'm happy with it.
Besides, I want to get to arranging furniture and sorting clothes etc, and this wall has stopped me doing that cause it had to be finished first!
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If i get a moment (probably after kids are in bed tonight) i could try and figure out how to do link 
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