DIY: Quotes on Canvas Room Decor

This is the perfect project if you want to spice up your empty, barren room and give it some life.

 

What you'll need:

• Canvas of any size (I used an 8x10, it was on sale) 
• A quote that you like enough to display on your walls
• Scrapbook paper (if you used a larger canvas you'll need more than one)
• Paint ( preferably a color that doesn't clash with the color of your scrapbook paper
• A sponge or sponge (foam) brush
• Mod Podge ( just a fancy glue that does 3 different things)
• Scissor
• Tape
• An exacto knife or razor blade
• A clear area to work

1. Get your scrapbook paper and canvas. Outline the canvas to the blank side of the paper and cut it out. I chose a colorful butterfly design.

2. Take your foam or sponge brush and apply a thin layer of Mod Podge to the canvas. glue on the scrapbook paper design up or blank side down so that the design is showing. While that dries...

3. Pick out the quote that you want and print it out so that its big enough to see but not so big that it can't fit. Capitalize all the letters and print it out.  I chose this quote I found online "Every day is a second chance". It holds a lot of truth and sense. When you think about it Everyday is a second chance, whether it be to right your wrongs and say sorry or to live the life you should have lived yesterday. Some people don't get second chances and it just lets me appreciate how precious every moment is.

4. Cut out all the letters using your scissor and use your exacto blade or razor to cut out the unreachable insides. Place them on your canvas the way you want it to look.

5. Now this is the tricky part. Take a small piece of tape and cut it so that if you wrap it around itself and make it double sided it will fit on the letter. Place it in the center and the ends of every letter. You don't really have to do every end but to make sure its secure I recommend you do so.

6. Now that every letter its securely stuck to your canvas heres the fun part. Choose a color that won't clash with the scrapbook paper you chose for your background. Using a sponge brush or just any paint brush coat the canvas with that paint. Be careful around the edges of the letters. Take your time. 

7. Paint it over again or focus o

n the ares that are visible through the paint. it should look like this:

I chose white since my walls are white.

8. After the paint has dried carefully pull off each letter to reveal the background behind it. If the paint had bled through the edges of the letter use a exacto knife or razor blade to gently scrape off the paint. 

Hanging It Up:

if you want to hang up your quote get a hammer and  a nail. Choose a place to hang it and put in the nail with the hammer. Hang it up and align it so that its not crooked.

Finished product!!!

Tribute to TFIOS: Favorite Quote On Canvas DIY

So to celebrate the premiere of The Fault In Our Stars in theaters based on the best selling book by My Lord and Savior (Just kidding) John Green. Earlier in the year i did this on a piece of poster board paper and now that its getting hot, the tape has not been doing its job of sticking to the wall. So, I wanted to transfer it onto a canvas so that it'll be more secure and official. I have decided to share this great project with the public so follow along. If you want.


Things You May Need:

1. A Canvas.                                                                    
2. Acrylic paint (Blue, white, black)
3. Various Paint Brushes
4.A Surface to work on
5. A plate or piece of cardboard to mix and put paint on
6. An Outline



1. Prepare your work area. I wanted to lay out some newspaper but I couldn't be bothered so I just did what any other person with common sense would do. I spread out a plastic bag and taped it down.

Perfect

2. Mix your blue and white acrylic paint to get something that resembles the background of the original The Fault In Our Stars background. cover the whole entire canvas. If you want to know, I used an 8x10 sized canvas. What can I say, it was on sale.

Not exact, But its ok.

2. Make an outline of how you want the clouds to be on the canvas on a blank piece of paper and fill them in with your favorite quotes. I already had the one from when I made a giant poster.

3. Trace the clouds onto the canvas with a pencil, pen, whatever. What I did was, I went back and forth on the clouds being white and black, labeled them with a B and a W and started to fill them in.

Half way there!

4. You might want to go back and fix up the sides of the cloud. I know I did. It took me a while but I got there.

BAM!

5. Now for the last thing. writing down your quotes into the clouds. I wanted to stick to the original style of black on white and white on black. When i first did this on Poster paper I wrote it with colored pencil. This time it wouldn't come up so I decided to tediously fill in the clouds with paint with a dotting tool. Major FAILURE. 

Finger cramps setting in. There I am in my old Middle school T-shirt.

6. I had to up the ante so I went to Walmart and saw these paint marker pens. I got the fine ones in Black and White. Time to fill in the most heart wrenching, gut aching quotes I've ever seen on paper.

    

The finishing product:

TaaDaa!!!!!

Tip: If you mess up, its okay the only thing to do is just paint over the mistake. I did this about 30 times.

And that's it. My tribute to The Fault In Our Stars by John Green. I plan on seeing the movie soon (actually don't know yet) I know that I will be a wreck. Hoped you like it. Later.

OH! I forgot to tell you to not to forget to sing and date your art.You never know it may be worth something one day.