Awesome DIY Photo Canvas

My next projects was to put something on my leftover canvas. I search on Pintrest what I could do and low and behold, I found this. I ended up getting prints made at Sam's Club. I got one 16x20 for about $5.95, two 11x14 for $2.87 and two 8x10 for $1.46 each. All prints for $15.50. Not a bad deal at all! Sam's Club also prints in matte, which is what I recommend. I've head if you use glossy with mod podge, the picture will bubble up and not look very good. I had to buy the mod podge, but I used my 40% off coupon so I got it for about $2.50. I also got the 11x14 and 8x10 canvases from Hobby Lobby for about $10 for all of them. I cannot believe how SUPER easy these were to make!

I started by cutting the photos to be able 0.5 inches from the sides. I then covered the canvas and the back of the photo in mod podge, stuck the picture on the canvas and straightened it out. I then paint black acrylic paint with a sponge brush along the sides of the pictures. After that I mod podged the whole thing, let it dry then hung em up!

South Dakota sunset!

Seattle.

This one is my 16x20. This is displayed in my room!

Theater Room Art

So as many of you are aware of Pintrest, I found an awesome, easy project on there! I wanted to use the same color I used in the kitchen, my Brisk Olive green since I had some leftover. I went to Hobby Lobby and picked up some 2 pack canvas. I believe I paid $6.99 for the 2 pack. I ended up getting 4...about $3.25 each. I also had painters tape from painting the walls. Here is where you'll find the instructions on how to make them. I only used 3 of my 4. I'm just going to add some pictures of tips I have for the project (they can also be used for others).

I started by painting the whole canvas white

This was a neat trick I saw somewhere

Push pins so I could paint the sides without it sticking to the plastic

Taped off and ready to paint

I painted over the tape so if any paint seeped through it would be white, not color.

Painted the whole thing.

Finished and up on the wall in my theater room.

It adds a little color in there. I also just realized the green is very similar to the color that author of the blog I linked used. I think the contrasting colors in this room really works. I was glad to tie my Brick Olive into another part of the house. Happy painting!