Add a personal touch to your child's room with these easy and inexpensive ideas from fellow iVillagers

Another use for greeting cards
My local card store was having a huge clearance. So I thought, why not frame them for the nursery? For my daughter, I got Anne Geddes cards. For my son, I got animal cards.
- iVillager meekfam4

Recycled books and calendars
'There are lots of great children's books out there, and you can cut the pages out and frame them. You can also use fabric as a wall hanging. For my son's farm-themed room, I used a quilt block depicting a barn scene to make a small wall hanging. I also found one with a vintage John Deere tractor on it that I made into a pillow. Another fantastic source for cheap art is calendars. They have them for almost anything, and I've seen cows, pigs, chickens, barns, tractors, you name it.
- mamaroja

One to grow on
Instead of putting a traditional growth chart in their son's nursery, a couple I know made a border around the room of their son's footprints. Every month, they stamped a little pair of feet onto the wall and added the date to record his growth. They used non-toxic, water-based paint and spaced the pairs of feet about six to eight inches apart. It was very cute.
- mamaroja

Creative framing
For my son's nursery (in a puppy theme), I bought a cheap puppy calendar, cut all the pictures to the same size, then cut foam core so that it was two inches bigger than the pictures. I actually went to a do-it-yourself frame shop and used their big cutter to cut the squares to the same size since it made cleaner cuts. I painted an inch and a half around the outside of the foam core (including the edge) for my 'frame,' then used spray adhesive to attach the pictures. I found little round hooks with small teeth that I stuck into the back (and secured with extra masking tape). Then I only had to use little nails for hanging the pictures on the wall. They look great, and my son really likes them.
- iVillager sfitzhug

Postcard art
If you're looking for an interesting do-it-yourself border, consider using postcards. You can photocopy them on a colour copier, cut them out and use spray adhesive to attach them to the wall. Then use brightly coloured paper cut to the same size as your postcards as spacers, alternating them around the room. Trim your border with thin wooden moldings to cover up the raw edges. - mamaroja

Thinking outside the box
If you are searching for things to decorate the walls of your nursery, try looking in unexpected places. You can make a collage featuring baby's birth announcement, photos and newspaper headlines. A friend of mine scanned photos of my son and made fake magazine covers with them on her computer. Framed, they look really cute in my son's room. For a little girl's room, frame a beautiful old handkerchief, doily or piece of heirloom lace or needlework. Even a piece of chintz or toile fabric would look really interesting in a frame. Don't limit yourself to flat objects. Shadowbox frames can be used to frame an unlimited number of things - cute buttons, clothing and shoes, vintage rattles and spoons.
- mamaroja