How to Make Your Own Modern Canvas Art

Last calendar week was the large divulge of our Modern Master Bathroom renovation. Ever since the reveal, I’ve been getting questions virtually this sail piece. Mostly, “Can I enquire where y'all bought that?” Well, my friends, it’s a DIY! Almost all of the fine art inwards my domicile is handmade (and I’m getting ameliorate as well as ameliorate at it!).

This sail was made using my Cricut Explore Air™ 2 machine. It’s a cutting machine that people typically mean value is used for newspaper crafts, but I’ve used it for a ton of domicile decor projects including wooden signs, etched vases, as well as coasters.

You tin displace abide by to a greater extent than keen Cricut projects inwards my Cricut Project Gallery.

Here’s what y'all require to brand this typography art: 

Cricut Explore Air™ 2 machine

Black Paint (Coal Black)

Iron-on white vinyl

Light Grip Cricut Mat

Iron

18″ x24″ Canvas

If y'all desire to operate the same text equally me, y'all tin displace opened upwardly my Cricut sail HERE and salve it to your ain computer.

When y'all give-up the ghost to impress the words, y'all require to banking firm gibe the box that says “Mirror Image”. This volition cutting a mirror picture of your words thus that y'all tin displace Fe them on.

Place the iron-on vinyl on your light traveling pocket cutting mat, amongst the shiny side down. You don’t desire the Cricut to cutting through the protective shiny layer. Then laid your Cricut to “iron-on vinyl” as well as cut.

After your cutting it done, y'all tin displace take away the negative vinyl thus that exclusively the words are left. They volition nonetheless live sitting on that protective shiny layer.  I used pair of scissors at this indicate to cutting the plastic into 4 carve upwardly pieces (one for each business of wording).

I painted my entire sail my favourite deep dark colour (it needed a twosome of coats). And when it was ready, I used a ruler to business upwardly my vinyl letters. I tried to larn the same spacing betwixt all of the words (about 1.5″).

Once I was happy amongst the placement, I used an Fe on the “No Steam” setting to press on the vinyl. The clear layer is in that location is protect as well as transfer the vinyl. If y'all operate the Fe straight on the vinyl, without the clear layer, it could melt as well as distort the vinyl, thus y'all require to live careful to exclusively apply oestrus where in that location is a protective layer.

The oestrus volition carve upwardly the vinyl from the protective layer, as well as y'all volition live able to only pare it dorsum in i lawsuit the vinyl has set. If y'all abide by y'all are pulling vinyl up, only seat it dorsum downwards as well as apply a combat to a greater extent than heat.

You don’t accept to frame the canvas, but if y'all desire to frame your ain canvas, it’s super easy, as well as I’ll exhibit y'all how!

Here’s what y'all require to frame the canvas: 

Pine Board cutting into 3/4″ foursquare pieces

Wood Glue

Speed Square

Table Saw

Mitre Saw

Cordless Nailer

I don’t accept a painting exhibit of the pino board beingness cut, because nosotros had scraps of 3/4″ foursquare pieces, but the offset pace is to cutting your 3/4″ pino board into foursquare strips, longer than the length of your canvas.

Next, y'all desire to mensurate your sail sides. Even though it says it’s 18″, it mightiness live 18.5″ or something because of the wrapping. When y'all know the length, add together 1.5″(3/4″ times 2 because your board is 3/4″ as well as y'all are adding board to both sides) to that (so 18.5″ length becomes 20″ length on the long side). Measure this distance as well as cutting a 45 aeroplane angle on the mitre saw (photo above). Flip the woods around as well as practise the same matter on the other side (in my example, the long border would live 20″, as well as the curt border 18.5″ when y'all are done).

Use a speed foursquare to brand certain that your angles are correct.

Add woods gum to the edges, thus business them upwardly amongst the speed foursquare in i lawsuit to a greater extent than as well as using a nailer to boom them inwards place

Once the woods gum is dry, y'all tin displace popular the sail inwards house as well as operate the nailer to boom the frame to the canvas.

This is just what I wanted for our bath – it’s thus slowly to brand your ain domicile decor!

If y'all similar making your ain artwork, banking firm gibe out this Painted Canvas Tutorial that y'all tin displace brand inwards less than an hour!

This is a sponsored conversation written past times me on behalf of Cricut. The opinions as well as text are all mine.