See every single transformation from start to finished wall. Jonathon walks you through it all.

Here are ten+ projects made with IOD moulds, transfers, stamps, and thrifted finds full of potential. Each one is beautiful on its own, but together they create something truly stunning.

And this is IOD at its best. Products that layer and build on each other, telling a whole story one piece at a time. And with that kind of creative freedom? There really is no limit to what you can make.

It starts with a color anchor.

Jonathon uses duck egg blue as his through-line. It's a cool, quiet accent that appears in specific pieces across the wall and does the quiet work of holding everything together. Against all those warm autumn reds, neutral woods, and burnt oranges, that touch of duck egg blue creates just enough visual contrast to keep the eye moving and the wall from feeling cluttered or heavy.

Now, you don't need duck egg blue, but you do need something. Choose one color - a soft neutral, a muted green, a dusty blue - and let it appear in at least two or three places across your wall. It doesn't have to be obvious. It just has to be there.

Then let the transfers speak for themselves.

The IOD transfers Jonathon chose, the Brocante Transfer, the Winter Botanist, the Clementine, the Lover of Flowers, they each have their own personality. He doesn't try to match them perfectly. He lets them be distinct. What ties them together is that they all live in the same general color family and share the same vintage, botanical sensibility. They are varied, but they rhyme.

This is the difference between a wall that looks curated and one that looks busy. The pieces don't have to match, but they should speak the same language.

Texture is what creates the interest.

Look closely at Jonathon's wall and you'll notice that no two surfaces feel the same. The rough weave of the painted baskets sits next to the smooth painted timber of the shadow boxes. The dimensional resin castings contrast with the flat, delicate gilded transfers. The aged wax finish on the clock faces reads differently than the soft grey glaze on the shadow box castings.

All of that variety, all of that visual texture, is what makes a gallery wall genuinely interesting to look at. A wall where everything is the same finish and the same surface depth gets flat very quickly. Variety keeps the eye engaged and gives the wall a collected, lived-in quality that feels far more personal than anything perfectly coordinated.

The Printed Page as a Layered Element

It's been done before, and it's no secret, but one of the most beautiful things Jonathon does on this wall is use the printed pages of an open book as a background layer. The text itself is meant to serve as texture, and in turn gives great depth.

That layering of printed type underneath decorative imagery is one of the quieter secrets of this wall, and one of the easiest to recreate. A thrifted hardback opened to the right page costs almost nothing and adds such a beautiful element to a gallery wall composition.

If you're building your own wall, look for a book with pages that have visual weight, like dense text, vintage typography, or aged paper. Let it be the background. Let the IOD transfers tell their story on top of it. The combination is completely gorgeous. 💕

Every gallery wall has its anchor pieces, the ones that hold the composition and draw people in. On Jonathon's wall, these four do that work.

The Upcycled Clock

What was once a battery-operated alarm clock is now one of the most dimensional pieces on the wall. Transfers are layered both onto the face, inside, and the front glass, creating two planes of detail visible simultaneously. It is endlessly interesting to look at and costs almost nothing to make.

The Shadow Boxes

The IOD Cornucopias, Oak Leaves and Acorns, Autumn Cottage, and Olive Crest Moulds get their full moment here, with moulded castings arranged against duck egg blue backdrops and aged hardware framing everything.

The Hanging Books

Open hardback books with IOD transfers applied directly to the pages, held open with vintage curtain clips that also serve as the hanging mechanism. Literary, charming, and so unexpected on a wall that it makes people stop and lean in.

The Dutch Wooden Clogs

Jonathon used fine Olive Crest castings to follow the curved edges of the clogs and left the beautiful, natural timber underneath. The most unlikely gallery wall piece, but one of the most charming.

Here's what we want you to hear before you close this post.

You don't need Jonathon's eye. You don't need ten projects or a whole afternoon at the thrift store. You just need to start somewhere. Start with one piece that speaks to you for some reason you can't quite explain, and the willingness to see it differently than everyone else would.

A gallery wall like this one isn't built in a day. It's built piece by piece, project by project, with the kind of patient creative confidence that grows every time you finish something and think I made that. And that feeling? It never gets old. 💕

IOD Moulds

🎨 Cornucopias Mould (New!)

🎨 Oak Leaves and Acorns Mould

🎨 Autumn Cottage Mould (Retired)

🎨 Olive Crest Mould

IOD Stamps

🎨 Apothecary Stamp Set

IOD Transfers

🎨 Winter's Calling Transfer (New!)

🎨 Brocante Transfer

🎨 Lover of Flowers Transfer

🎨 Winter Botanist Transfer

🎨 Clementine Transfer

IOD Other

🎨 IOD Air Dry Clay

Inspired to build your own wall? Find your nearest IOD Stockist using the big red Where to Buy  button on our website. Our stockists know the current lineup inside and out and can help you find exactly what you need. 🙌

Don't forget to go back and read Part 1 for the full behind-the-scenes story. It has all the thrifted finds, the individual projects, and the technique details.

And when your wall goes up? Share it with the IOD Creative Tribe on Facebook. We would genuinely love to see what you build. 💕