Love on a Canvas

We recently just remodeled our upstairs level which now has a room, walk in closet and a bathroom.  Our room is quite large and we decided to get a King size bed that is great...but it was kind of empty above the bed.  We like big, bold colors - so we went with a gray and coral theme...but the coral wall needed some toning down....

So I saw this as inspiration on pinterest:

I didn't like all of their quotes and didn't really think they fit Brian and I, so I made up a few of my own with some brainstorming help from Brian.  We chose to do one large canvas and 4 smaller ones.  I literally stood in front of all the canvases for about 20 minutes to make sure the dimensions would turn out right when they were all up on the wall together.  I actually had a great deal on these; they were buy one get one free - so I got them for super cheap!  Then I wrote out all our sayings and bought all the letters.  The ones that I bought came in packs of two - so I had to get A LOT of letters.  I ended up bouncing back between 3 stores over the KC area for a week until I finally got all the letters I needed. 

I came home and laid out all the canvases to get a feel for what they would look like together and then I put the letters on top of the wrapping to work on spacing and make sure I liked it before I glued everything down and couldn't return it.

Next came the gluing.  E6000 worked great for me.

On the small canvases, I eyeballed the spacing and alignment, much to my husbands anger.  (He is very particular about measuring out everything!

and I think it turned out just fine! :)

Next came the big kahuna!  I did put lines on this one because even I can't estimate straight lines that far of a distance, planned it all out, centered it and started gluing.  It seemed like it was never ending!

Finally I got them done!  Here is what they say:

Love one another

Lost in this Moment

Shut up and Kiss Me

Love you Mostest

"I've seen a million miles, met a million faces, took all that I knew to reach all these places, and i'd do it all again if it brings me back to you" 

Please ignore the missing "t's" I got impatient waiting on the products to come in.  

Then the handy-dandy husband came into play again and spray painted them for me. He did a light gray and then a white because the white wasn't covering the wood well at all.  Then we measured it all out and hung them above the bed.  I think they turned out pretty cool! 

Much more personalized and a lot cheaper than paying for made wall art.