Canvas Prints- on a budget!

Recently I have seen that canvas prints have become very popular. I have seen ones like these with a variety of different quotes in almost every store I have been in lately.

I definitely wanted to jump on this bandwagon, because I think they are so cute, but my budget does not justify spending $30 plus on something I always thought looked so simple.

So instead I have been improvising! And of course, it started at a thrift store.

I found this painting, which ended up to my surprise not being canvas at all but a big piece of wood, at a thift store for $4.99. I picked it because it had such vibrant colors. I originally had bought vinyl letter stickers to stick on to spell out the quote I chose, however the quote is kind of lengthy and after opening the pack I realized that I would need almost 4 packs to have all the vowels I needed. Being that the stickers were around $7 each I had to come up with a different plan. So, I decided to use masking tape instead and formed the letters out of pieces of tape. I then spray painted it with the color of my choice.

After I spray painted it I peeled off where the tape had been to reveal the quote.

After I peeled it off, I realized it did not quite turn out the way I had wanted it to. In retrospect, I wish I had used a more contrasting color like black or royal blue and I think it would have shown the letter better, but that just was not the color I wanted for the whole thing. So yet again I found myself having to improvise and decided that I could just simply outline everything!

In the end, I like the way it turned out. It has a child like quality which is what I wanted. In the future, I would probably choose a shorter quote to use the vinyl letters (since I already bought a pack!) and a contrasting cover color so the background stands out more. It was a fun project and something I cannot wait to hang up in my new home!


Love Always,

Elle