Update: Well here it is…

Obviously I haven’t finished or cleaned up yet. This is far from perfect but considering that I barely knew wtf I was doing, I guess it’ll do 😉

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I finally got my kitchen mostly painted and I was trying to find a cheap easy way to make a backsplash. So first (think cheap) I bought some beadboard. But I can’t cut a straight line for shit and I was pretty sure I wasn’t going to be able to get around the electrical panel worth a darn. I wanted to use green for a nice contrast to my orange walls.

Then I was looking online and found this nifty idea: coasting into spring/ Done with sharpie markers and alcohol. (the link seems to be not working for me tonight)

While it was a pretty cool idea, we couldn’t really get them to look anything like that. And the green that I wanted to concentrate on was the one that really didn’t run/blend at all. Anyway, this is what we came up with:

Laurens:

Mirandas:

Melissas:

I scrubbed the ones I did off because they sucked compared to theirs.

Since I was left to do the rest and I sucked at it, I went searching for other hints and I found these:

Well, what a difference! Where I wasn’t able to get very bright, bold colors with the sharpies, these were amazing. But they were a bit too bold and they also didn’t blend the way I wanted.

Of course, there is no way those are going to fit in with the earlier sharpie ones. Plus not sure I want my kitchen to look like a circus.. So after some thought, I soaked a sponge in alcohol and smushed it on top of them. Now they are more of a match for the others.

I’m going to separate all the tiles and mix them up a bit. And the nice thing is you can just wipe them off with alcohol and try again if you aren’t happy with them

I need to finish sealing them, buy a tile cutter I guess, paste them up, grout them and then I can show off my backsplash that no one in the world has one like it!