Nursery Wall Canvases
I spent this weekend painting, cutting, gluing and piecing...to make these for the new baby boy's nursery:
which were shamelessly "inspired" and lifted by these prints from Babies R Us:
I used 16" x 20" canvases, scraps of various patterned papers and just went to town paper piecing them all together. Since I had pictures to work from, I was able to free-hand the various shapes pretty well. Once all the animals were put together, I used my sewing machine to stitch a border around the outline of each animal. Then I painted the backgrounds of the canvases and taped off borders to make the brown border around each canvas. Finally, I used mod-podge to put them all together and protect them.
Here are close-ups of each:
This was a fun project and I love the textured finish...much better than buying prints I think....but thenit did take two full days of work to finish them!
14 comments so far:
russphillips said:
These are great Andrea! Much better than the original even!
yazbelle said:
What crib set are you using?
Andrea said:
I'm using the same bed set that a friend of mine made for Ayla's room:
http://www.scrapjazz.com/galleries/4/view/391531/-1/200/1.html
elizbailey said:
I definitely like yours better than the inspiration! The stiching around the edges was a perfect touch!
LesleMora said:
You are just too talented! Love them!
janlynns said:
too cute! Great job!
jwinters said:
You are so talented!
Tiffany said:
Simply adorable! You're so talented!
janel said:
Okay, wow!!
lindasteed said:
They are just adorable, Andrea! That little boy is going to love talking to them! I am still trying to figure out how you sew on canvas. :)
rsteed said:
Those look so good Andrea!! I agree that they look better than the ones in the store. Good job!
wbcradic said:
A, those look great! (Much better than my frog... :)
acmickelson said:
I like yours a lot more than the Babies 'R Us prints from which they came. Very nicely done.
Prlinehan said:
good golly, lady, you sure are fancy! I would've never thought to do any kind of sewing on that! I smell etsy...
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