After placing and adhering the stickers, I sprayed the whole thing with a couple of light coats of paint (heirloom white by Rustoleum). The painting was meant to hang horizontally, as you can see in the first photo, but the words worked better vertically so I decided to go with it, even though I wasn't sure how it would affect the way the original painting showed through. I guess if I had used stickers attached to sheets (like scrapbook stickers) it would've been quicker, but this is what I had (left over from my preschool-teaching days). Seriously - I think it took 30 minutes just to find and place all the letters! I kept thinking there was some easier way other than rifling through all the stickers over and over again searching for the next letter. When I found this quote a few weeks ago, I knew the first part would work beautifully.Īnd really the toughest part of this easy craft is finding all the letter stickers needed.
I actually liked the 'Live, Laugh, Love' signs for awhile but it's been done to death - as well as anything beginning with 'Keep Calm.' I wasn't really looking to go the whole subway-art route, but I did want something meaningful. As well as wondering if the colors would work - they're kinda dull and blue (even the trees looked a bit blue!) and I'm into lighter, definitely non-blue colors. However, I pondered awhile about what words to use. All very cool, but since I'm into transforming thrifted stuff, this is the version that caught my eye from A Beautiful Mess (and got pinned to my board). Many are done on blank canvases, canvases finger-painted by kids, or even mirrors and wood. When I found this amateur canvas painting at a thrift store awhile ago, I knew exactly what I'd do with it since I had seen lots of examples of word art made with stickers and paint on Pinterest.
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I'm so excited to share my latest thrift store transformation with you all, which is going up a day early to participate in this winter Pinterest Challenge! So let's get to it: how to turn an ugly (come on, gotta call it by what it is.) painting into some awesome word art.
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