DIY Quotes on Canvas

I absolutely love wall art, especially wall art you can read. So our two year anniversary is tomorrow and I thought I'd make him something special, a DIY canvas with the lyrics to our first song (to be).

It turned out so fantastically I decided to post a tutorial.

Supplies:
Spray paint (you could really use any paint but this is what I went with)
Scrapbook paper
canvas
vinyl letters
glue (I used gorilla glue but I would like Elmer's would do fine)
scissors
cardboard


Step 1: Cover canvas in scrapbook paper. I chose bright music note paper to pop against the reddish brown paint I chose.

Step 2: Cut out vinyl letters, position the letters on the canvas the way you want them before peeling off the paper and sticking them down. Oh yeah, don't forget to trace a heart and cut that out with the cardboard.

 Step 3: Take canvas outside and spray paint thoroughly until you cannot see the canvas/paper. (This is my friend, she also made one for her boyfriend.)

 Step 4: Allow to dry. This took only about 10 minutes for my canvas. 

Step 5: Here's the fun part, carefully peel off the lettering!

Oh yeah, remove the heart too.

And viola! Better and more personalized artwork than you could find in your local Bed, Bath and Beyond.

And if you really want to get into it, you can do what I did and put the song on while you make it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjFaenf1T-Y

Holy Moley Me Oh My You're the Apple of My Eye

 

 Meeting with wedding photographers over the past few weeks has really made me ache to get back to photography. I miss so many aspects of it, from being out shooting, down to the post production and editing process. 

The strange thing was, when I quit the newspaper to become an editor, I was almost relieved to put away my equipment, in fact it'd had been weeks since I'd picked up my camera. But visiting these studios has left me inspired to seek out what I'm really passionate about.

Anyways, my fiance and I went out to an apple orchard this morning with my friend and her boyfriend and decided to do some exploring, as our tractor driver encouraged us to do. So here are a few pictures from the day.

Dog Park on a Snowy Saturday

Help me!

Ouch..that's got to hurt.

Bailey loves eating the snow.

This one is my favorite.

Here I am!

Penn State representing

When we told our parents and our friends we wanted to get a dog we were met with a lot of doubt and negativity. "You know they're a lot of responsibility right?" or "You know they're really expensive." "You can't just get a dog because you think it will be all fun." Really? I had no idea, thank you for those words of wisdom. 

At the risk of sounding like one of those old ladies that treats her pets like they're her children...Bailey has transformed my life. He's introduced me to places, people, and animals I'd never meet or speak to otherwise. 

Everyone in Pet Smart knows his name, people randomly stop us on the street to coo and pet him. At the dog park, we swap stories back and forth and laugh while our dogs wrestle with each other.

The minute I held Bailey for the first time in my arms and we began to head home I almost had a panic attack. I am responsible for this living, breathing creature! All of the warnings we had been given started racing through my head. 

All of those worries have been put to rest, now that my motherly instincts have kicked in. I really do love taking care of him, even when it comes to cleaning up after him and paying his vet bills.

Taking care of him has brought Evan and I closer together too. We spend hours together, playing with him, teaching him new tricks. He's so smart! This week we're working on 'stay' and 'paw' during training class. We take him to the dog park every weekend, rain or shine.

I guess the moral of this blog post is: Do what you want to do, regardless of anyone else's opinion. If it feels right to you, go for it. Don't let anyone hold you back from making the decisions you want to make. If I listened to my parents every time they told me I shouldn't do something, I wouldn't have two of the most important things in my life; Evan and Bailey.