canvas AR-Tastic

I love to blog visit and have some favorites I get daily updates from and some

of the things I have been seeing lately are chevron art & large wall hangings

made using different designs cut from their die cutting machines...

well I have had a fireplace mantel that I have been dying to make over to have a

look or a style that is hip & cohesive...

So I got out some canvases, spray paint, tape, and some images off line and got

to work and I gotta tell you it wasn't easy...I had a bunch of ideas and CHEVRONS

were my plan...but I had trouble lining it up...so made a switch-a-roo

so first thing I did was

painted some canvas with white gesso

then used some contact paper & laid them where I wanted them

and spray painted over the contact - waited till they dried and

peeled them off and COOLNESS - it worked but now to add a splash of color

or contrast...I added some clip art images and made them into stencils

and used black acrylic paint to paint them in...

here they are

what do you think?

I love it ---

So I gotta tell you that the hubbs wasn't to excited about this because his thought

process is that it doesn't match - we don't have turquoise but he can't see the big

picture butter yellow walls & black furniture could use pops of bright colors as accents.

Well I LOVE the new mantel look - I added those subway signs that I got

at Ross - to finish the wall off.

I gotta tell you ladies this was a real cheap re-do (I had the canvases) so I had NO

out of pocket expenses except the signs ---fab for cheap!

I am linking this up to the following challenges:

transformation thursdays

a crafty soiree

wednesday wowzers

whatever goes wednesday

we did it wednesdays

inspire me fridays

freestyle friday

everybodys creative endeavor

Happy Crafting

xo

tina