So it’s probably no big secret that I’m not into scrap booking, own a cricut machine or big on decorating my home with elaborate pieces of art. If I were, this blog would be filled with cutesy arts and crafts stuff. In fact, if you were to look around our previous home of eight years you’d probably would have asked yourself, “how long has she lived here?” Did she just move in?
And the answer would have be no, I lived there for 8 years thank you very much. I just don’t like a lot of crappity crap on the walls, piled up on tables and every cupboard stuffed shut.
And then there is the other part about how I don’t like buying “art” from Target, Pottery Barn or anywhere else that sells mass produced, anyone can have it because it was made in China, pieces soulless “art.”
So last winter when it was like 30 degrees outside and I was all cooped up with nothing to do, I made something really cool. Or at least I think it’s pretty cool anyway.
Note to self: Spray Adhesive can make you loopy if you don’t have proper ventilation. 
Putting your favorite quote on a canvas is super simple!
First, buy a canvas, and then paint it with whatever acrylic paint you want. Then, jot down your favorite quote and head on over to your local office supply store and have them print it out on whatever size paper you’d like to put on your canvas {I paid $2.19 for a 20×30 sheet}.
Next, grab an old pattern. If you don’t have one check your local thrift store. I paid $0.25 for mine.
Unfold the pattern pieces and lay them across your dry, painted canvas.
In a bowl, mix 1 part washable school glue to 3 parts water and stir until you have a nice consistency.
Brush watered down glue mixture on to your pattern, making sure to use enough glue to adhere the pattern to the canvas.
Wait for it to dry. 
Pour some black acrylic paint into a container and grab an old shopper card {I like to use them because they are nice and sturdy} and get a wee bit of black acrylic paint on the card.
Gently scrape the painted card onto the canvas with so much wild abandon that your kids will be like, watch out, mom’s on a craft binge again. Stay away.
There is no perfect way to do this. You can’t mess it up. There are no rules. Just go with it until your canvas has an aged, urban art type of appearance.
Let the whole thing dry overnight and then hang that baby on your wall.
Easy Peasy.
~Mavis
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