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re-purposed canvas

September 30, 2012 by Erin 21 Comments

I found this fantastically strange canvas painting of chairs at Goodwill for 4 bucks!  Yee-haw.
I knew exactly what I wanted to do with this!
Follow these steps, and re-purpose your very own.
It was fun and easy and I just love the way it turned out!
Step 1.  Find an old canvas painting that you don’t care about.
Step 2.  Pick your favorite saying.
Step 3.  Print out your saying in large letters in a font you like
(or a few different fonts if you want to mix it up.)
Step 4.  Print it out again because your 3 year old found it and decided it was a coloring book.
Nice work.
Step 5.  Get out your Silhouette and some sticky vinyl and cut out your letters.
OR
Curse that there is yet another project that you wish you had a cutting machine for and feel sorry for yourself.  (maybe that’s what I did)
And then get over it and lay out a sheet of wax paper and put strips of painters tape on it.
Sticky contact paper would work well too, but I didn’t have any.
Step 6.  Lay your printed letters on top of your real or homemade contact paper and carefully cut them out with scissors, old school style.

Step 7.  Peel the wax paper from the tape.  This took some patience and time, but it all came off.   (Contact paper would probably be less time consuming here.)
Step 8.  Place your tape letters onto the canvas and press well.  Especially the edges.
Step 9.  Mix up some acrylic paint and paint all over the whole canvas.  You can make it solid, or streaky.  I left mine a little streaky.  Dab carefully around the letters to prevent too much bleeding.
Step 10.  Peel off the tape while the paint is still a wee bit wet.
Step 11.  Clean up the parts where the paint might have bled under the tape.
Mine did bleed under the edges of the tape a little.  I think it’s because my canvas was pretty shiny so the tape didn’t stick super well.  If it was a matte canvas, the letters would stick better.
But, also, since mine was shiny, it was really easy to use a wet Q-tip to clean up the edges of each letter.
So, no problem.
Step 12.  Enjoy your new art.
I just love it.
I would love to see yours if you decide to give it a go.

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Comments

  1. Crystal says

    September 30, 2012 at 8:40 pm

    I LOVE this idea! The finished product is beautiful.

    Reply
    • Erin says

      October 14, 2012 at 8:25 pm

      Thanks Crystal!

      Reply
  2. Amy says

    October 22, 2012 at 6:34 am

    LOVE this! One of my favorite sayings as well. 🙂

    Reply
  3. Bethany says

    November 8, 2012 at 5:40 pm

    This is so smart! I need to do something like this soon! Love it!

    Reply
    • Erin says

      November 13, 2012 at 1:24 am

      Thanks so much Bethany! Glad you liked it. I’m sure yours will be super cute!! Can’t wait to see it.

      Reply
  4. Ashley says

    October 23, 2013 at 10:37 pm

    I did this and it turned out great!! How can I show you?!

    Reply
    • Erin says

      October 23, 2013 at 10:47 pm

      Oh, I would love to see it! Can you share it on the bird and a bean facebook page?!

      Reply
  5. Lisa @ Charlie The Cavalier says

    July 16, 2014 at 8:55 am

    Great job! Love this quote too. Now I will need to check for some paintings at my thrift store!

    Reply
  6. Sarah says

    September 4, 2014 at 7:22 am

    That is genius!

    Reply
  7. Liz Barnett (@womanlywoman) says

    November 20, 2014 at 10:17 am

    This is genius! And I cracked up several times. I love “fantastically strange” and the step where you redo it because your child colored on it. hahahahahahahahaha

    Reply
    • Danielle says

      June 8, 2015 at 7:43 pm

      I just found this tutorial and laughed at that too. Also, I appreciate the cutting machine woe. I’m glad to see someone else is too stubborn to buy a new tool for every DIY project.

      Reply
      • Erin says

        June 11, 2015 at 7:37 am

        Haha! Thanks Danielle. 🙂

        Reply

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