Friday, March 11, 2011

I Love You Wall Art

I wanted to make something to put on my shelf in my great room. This is what I came up with.

My husband is in the military so I decided to use the phonetic alphabet to spell out I love you. Here is how I completed this project.

First I taped off two inch stripes with blue painters tape.


Then I started painting the stripes with a green paint that I am using as an accent color in my living room.. I then let it dry over night and then took off the tape.


I then used my Cricut to cut out the letters that I was using. I used the Storybook cartridge. I cut out the I LOVE YOU letters in pink.  Then I cut the rest of the letters in black.

I then placed the letters on the canvas to see the layout. I then placed all of the letters on the canvas.




After putting on the letters there was still something missing. So I put on some decorative corners from the Storybook cartridge.


I then put two coats of a gloss coat over the top to seal it and this is the finished product.

I really love how the finished product turned out. I put it on the shelf with one of my favorite wedding pictures.



Below is the finished product. I really love it and I hope that you all do too.


I would love any comments.  Thank you!


11 comments:

  1. This is so cute! And original :) Very clever.
    Megs :)

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  2. Oh my goodness...My husband is a police officer! This is perfect!!! If you felt like making another one, I would pay you! I'm serious! I drive him crazy by calling out license plates with phonetics. LOVE IT!

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  3. Love it, my hubby is deployed, will have to come up with a more masculine paint scheme, but am totally going to make this for him!! Thanks for the wonderful idea

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  4. Hi! New follower here! Such a great idea! It turned out so cute :)
    Trisha
    www.roundaboutshop.blogspot.com

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  5. My hubby is in the military and this is too cute! I love it! This is great.

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  6. I'll be featuring this on my blog on Saturday!

    http://sumossweetstuff.blogspot.com

    Thanks for linking up!
    Sumo:)

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  7. Ahhhh, so sweet, and really original! Love the color combo and how well it works with the black and white photo! thanks so much for sharing on Craft Schooling Sunday!

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  8. What a cute idea! Love the colors. Thanks for linking up to Scrappy Saturdays!

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  9. So creative! It is really great! My favorite thing though is your wedding picture...very sweet.

    Kristine

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  10. Adorable! Love the picture of your dog in the side bar by the way, unbelievably cute!

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  11. It's very cute. I assume all the words mean something special to you and your hubs. Great idea!

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