Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Valentine's Subway Art

Here goes nothing...I'm going to make my first piece of "Subway Art." I don't have a Cricut or Silhouette (only in my dreams), so I'm going old school.
 First I painted my board white. Afterwards I gathered up leftover alphabet stickers from other projects. I started to spell out the street names on the board using the alphabet stickers. Then I just painted over them in black.
 You can't see it that well (grr to my cruddy camera)....
 One section I painted red. It has the cheesy phrase "my heart" instead of a street name. Once my paint was pretty much dry, I peeled off the stickers using tweezers.
I thought I would be frustrated by the imperfections...but surprisingly I really like that every last letter isn't straight and perfect. This guy is for my sister for Valentine's Day. I put a few street addresses around town and then "my heart" to remind her that no matter where she lives she is always there. Cheesy, huh? It's okay my sister and I are too. :)
Hmm...I sorta want one in our guest bath, over the toilet that says all the different names for potty. That's sorta weird of me, isn't it?

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3 comments:

  1. Did you enter this in a contest? Bc you should!

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  2. I love the subway art plaques, too! I need to make one!!!!!!!!!!! Love yours...and yes, you are quite weird...but that's okay.

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  3. great idea.....ever think of doing one for your parents..maybe anniversary of all the places they have lived?

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