My Art Canvas

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.