At the end of the year we moved into a new house and our boys no longer had to share a room. I was SO excited to be able to paint the walls any color I wanted and decorate each room with a theme. I love to create things and I found this pin that showed you how to create your own canvas with any words you wanted. When I made these the link to the page worked but doesn't exhist while I'm writing this. So I'll try to explain how to do it.
The original link said to use a circuit machine, something I don't have so I'll tell you how I made it without one.
I found my canvases on sale at Michaels Craft store for 50% off in packages of three so I was so excited. I decided on a jungle theme and transportation theme for the boys room. I wanted the canvas to follow the same theme. That's when I saw this pin and knew what I was going to do.
Here's how you do it.......
Take the canvas and paint it the background color. In my case for the jungle room the background color is blue. While the paint is drying find the silhouette on the internet or draw it out on paper. Once you've gotten the drawing to the scale you like then trace it onto contact paper. I used words on mine as well so here I printed out the words I wanted in a word processing program and then traced that onto the contact paper. Cut the pictures and words out of the contact paper and place them down on the dry canvas. Make sure its nice and stuck on the canvas and then paint over & around the picture and words. BE VERY GENTLE when painting over the words it could move your letters slightly making it impossible to read later and require major touchups or having to redo the project entirely. Trust me I had to redo the completely word canvas a few times. Let that dry and then peel off the contact paper. Viola you have your own designed canvas.
The original link said to use a circuit machine, something I don't have so I'll tell you how I made it without one.
I found my canvases on sale at Michaels Craft store for 50% off in packages of three so I was so excited. I decided on a jungle theme and transportation theme for the boys room. I wanted the canvas to follow the same theme. That's when I saw this pin and knew what I was going to do.
Here's how you do it.......
Take the canvas and paint it the background color. In my case for the jungle room the background color is blue. While the paint is drying find the silhouette on the internet or draw it out on paper. Once you've gotten the drawing to the scale you like then trace it onto contact paper. I used words on mine as well so here I printed out the words I wanted in a word processing program and then traced that onto the contact paper. Cut the pictures and words out of the contact paper and place them down on the dry canvas. Make sure its nice and stuck on the canvas and then paint over & around the picture and words. BE VERY GENTLE when painting over the words it could move your letters slightly making it impossible to read later and require major touchups or having to redo the project entirely. Trust me I had to redo the completely word canvas a few times. Let that dry and then peel off the contact paper. Viola you have your own designed canvas.
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SIDE NOTE:
It doesn't matter what color your contact paper is though if your tracing out a ton of words I suggest clear if you can find it.
If your doing complete words I suggest using a small paint brush to simply paint around the words and save yourself some time in the long run.
Also if your looking for a more colorful design you could swirl colors together for the background. Or you could paint on top of flea market finds like those canvases or pictures your find with hotel quality pictures behind it.
It doesn't matter what color your contact paper is though if your tracing out a ton of words I suggest clear if you can find it.
If your doing complete words I suggest using a small paint brush to simply paint around the words and save yourself some time in the long run.
Also if your looking for a more colorful design you could swirl colors together for the background. Or you could paint on top of flea market finds like those canvases or pictures your find with hotel quality pictures behind it.
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