I participated in the Mantle Party at The Stories of A to Z on Friday. Beth is so good at decorating her mantle! If you haven’t yet, you should stop by some Friday and check out everyone’s mantles. My mantle included a picture of an art canvas that I made. I was going to share it later on in a different post{and it will be back}, but thought I’d talk about how I made it now.
Over the Summer, I purchased three blank canvases from Michaels with the thought of doing something in my master bedroom in lieu of a headboard. I realized this wouldn’t work as I like to read in bed and I kept thinking that unless I really mounted these things to the wall, they would keep falling off. That idea went in the scrap heap {and I’m still looking for that perfect headboard}.
Meanwhile, I still had these three canvases. Just sitting there. Waiting for some creative and wonderful project to come along. And then I saw it. I read a blog post by Stef at Frugal Home Ideas blog.
Picture of Stef’s wall art.
I was in love! Ballard-y looking wall art with a scrolly design that I loved using canvases I already had. Perfect! Here is a picture of something similar to what Ballard Design carries. It’s obviously different, but the idea is there.
Photo from Ballard Designs
Well, I couldn’t believe how she did it! The next thing you know, I’m ordering my own doormat from Target. My canvases were a bit wider than Stef’s so I did pretty much the whole pattern of the doormat, where she had taped off the sides of hers.
Here is one of the canvases painted. This was actually a black paint but it appears brown.
Once they were dry, I then moved outside with my painters tape, white spray paint and my doormat. {Remember this was over the Summer so I wasn’t dealing with the cold weather yet}.
You lay the mat over the canvas, tape off any area you don’t want to show up on the canvas and then just do a spray over it. I really only went over it once, making sure I moved not too quick and not too slow.
So that’s how I came to make my own wall art. I have three of these panels. I’ll end here, but this project will be back again.
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