A DIY Project

I had really been wanting to do a project to add some art work around our apartment. I am in "blog world" everyday and look at several DIY blogs. One day I came across a canvas project and was like hey I could do that!! I can't find the blog now..just my luck, by the girl that did this project got the idea from HGTV's Sabrina Soto. I didn't know when I was going to do this project...that was until last Saturday when I had been snowed in for DAYS!!! The temperature was rising and Michael had to go to work, so I rode with him and then dropped him off and I was FREE!!! I was driving around town running errands. I was so happy because I had been stuck inside because of the 2 feet of snow that had fallen earlier in the week. I went to Hobby Lobby not meaning to buy anything, however the paints & canvases were on sale...it was meant to be!! I grabbed a package of 2 11x14 canvases because I wasn't sure where I was going to artwork..we don't have a lot of free space here in the casa. It took me awhile to pick out paint colors, but I finally decided on a cream and a deep red. I decided that would look great with the things we have in our kitchen.

Here are all of my supplies

First I painted both with 2 coats of the cream color

Then Michael taped off the pattern (forgot to take a picture both times) and I painted 2 coats of the red color

When they were dry, I pulled the tape off and this was the final product

They weren't perfect, but we enjoy them!! Here they are above our cabinets in the kitchen.

It was a fun/easy project that I think I am going to do again soon!!  My mom is wanting to redo a bathroom at her house and I think something like this would look great on the big empty wall.