Sugar Skull Ramblings: DIY Canvas Art to Beautify My Bare Wall

Our bedroom wall is bare no more!

So we have lived in our apartment for at least 9 months now, and sad to say,

I have had an empty wall above the bed this whole time.

*hangs head in shame*

I HATE plain white walls! Argh!

I was just super indecisive about what I wanted on our bedroom wall.

I knew I didn't want to pay a lot of money though, and I wanted something that wasn't just a

mass-produced thing as the focus in our room.

So, I pieced together different ideas and cool things I found online,

and came up with...

TA DAH!

It's pretty simple, but I like it a lot :-) Bf likes it too!

I borrowed lyrics from the awesome Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros song, Home.

So how did I do it? Lemme show you...

These "Home" lyrics are pretty popular with projects like this.

I've seen a lot of cool things on Pinterest using this same quote.

So I guess it's not super original anymore, but I love it all the same. <3

So first I put down some masking tape in a chevron pattern.

I didn't really do any measurement, just kinda eyeballed it.

I used the super inexpensive Craft Smart paint from Michael's

(2 for 50 cents! woot woot!)

in dark grey and island blue.

I love shades of blue and green, and this turquoise-ish color is awesome.

I think I did 3 layers of paint.

After 3 layers it seemed covered pretty well.

I used these stencils by Martha Stewart.

I liked the end result, but some of the letters had little bitty pieces and corners,

that kinda just ended up blending together.

Maybe I painted too fast. I dunno. :-P Heavy, impatient hands I guess. Haha.

I taped down the edges of the stencils as I went along.

Here it is finished!

For the bottom hearts, I just used a Martha Stewart paper punch to make a stencil.

It's fairly small, but I'm planning to put up a few more things next to the canvas.

Here you can see the size better above our queen size bed.

And you can see my cool Julius pillow. Hee hee.

I am joining Liz Marie's Linky Party with this post,

so if you find me through her party, Awesome!

And Welcome! :-D

I'm hoping to be there every Friday!

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