tips and ideas on using leftover wallpaper

**Sara Noel** · 06-26-2007, 08:36 PM

Brainstorm ideas on what to do with leftover wallpaper or borders.

**ubumartin** · 06-26-2007, 08:38 PM

My aunt uses it to line her dresser drawers, shelfs etc. Other than that I am not sure.

**Domestic Gal** · 06-26-2007, 08:41 PM

I use the rolls as shelf liner in my pantry.
Use the rolls as wrapping paper.
The kids have used them as craft projects. Cut out flowers etc. and glued on poster board and other stuff to make pictures and signs.
Line your dresser drawers with them

**claimsgirl66** · 06-26-2007, 09:46 PM

I actually wallpapered a large card board box with leftover kitchen wallpaper & have a matching box for my stuff that goes to the recycling center. Had to use a hot glue gun on it, and some packing tape where I folded it inside the box, but looks pretty good....has held up 4 years!

**baxjul** · 06-27-2007, 07:51 AM

I use it to cover shoe boxes etc. for storage in my linen closet.

**lottaLove** · 06-27-2007, 08:21 AM

I used wallpaper to cover a shoe box, and then used the shoe box as a gift box for a wedding gift

At DS's old daycare, they took wallpaper that had a pattern, but it into smaller paper-sized sections, and let the children use it for arts and crafts. The kids would cut out the shapes, and use water to "glue" them down on a piece of paper.

**Dancing Lotus** · 06-27-2007, 09:14 AM

You can tair it up into differnt shapes and sizes and then crinkle them up. Flatten then back out and glue then to a wall. Makesure the pieves over lap and then paint over it. IT gives you wall a texture.

**Darlene** · 06-27-2007, 09:45 AM

We used ours for covering school books, works great & doesn't tear easily.

**many houseapes** · 06-27-2007, 10:01 AM

you could use it for doll house walls.

**MarshHen** · 06-27-2007, 10:25 AM

A friend of mine found a simple, wooden homemade toy box at a yard sale one time. I attached four round wooden feet, painted it white and then took some of the leftover border from her daughter's room and made myself a scallop template out of heavy cardstock. I used the template to cut the scallop border from the border and added it along the top and bottom of the box. It was so cute. I also cut out some of the smaller designs from the border and added them to a lamp shade. I found the small little milk glass like lamp for $5 at Dollar General.

If you craft, you can make nice, sturdy templates and patterns using leftover wallpaper. Just don't use it on your scrapbook layouts, cause it's not acid free.

**McD** · 06-27-2007, 11:54 AM

You can use it for scrapbooking, lining shelves etc. Instead of buying decorated notebooks, buy the cheap notebooks for school and then put the wallpaper border on the front for decoration.

**Domestic Gal** · 07-30-2007, 07:58 PM

Got a cute envelope from a coupon trade made out of wallpaper. I am saving it as a pattern and going to make some out of some of my scrap wallpaper. Light colored stuff would work great as you can still write on it. Or you could use address labels on the dark stuff.