Pinterest Challenge: DIY Wall Art
Last week Sherry from Young House Love announced a Pinterest Challenge! The only rule was that you needed to take something you pinned and give it your own spin. It sounded like fun to me so I thought I’d join in!
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These are the images from my Pinterest board that I used for my inspiration! (Click on the each image to go to the pin.)
And this is the finished product!
To create your own wall art…
Measure where you want your white stripes to be positioned on a canvas.
Using making or painters tape, mask out your design (I’m did a chevron design). Because my tape was an inch thick, I cut it in half using a ruler and craft knife. I know that you can buy half-inch masking tape, but I just made do with what I had on hand!
Next I spray painted the canvas with gold spray paint so that I would have a gold background to my painting.
Using acrylic paints, I then layered colour onto the canvas. Try different brushes and experiment with how you move the paint on the canvas, have fun!
When dry, peel the tape back to reveal your design!
And because everyone loves a before and after,
The shelf before was a bit to cluttered, the update is a nice change and freshens the shelf up! (The pretty picture in the white frame is another DIY art I made by printing an image on printer fabric, you can find the tutorial here.)
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If you are wanting to join in on the fun with a Pinterest account let me know in the comment section and I’ll send you an invite, as it is by invitation only.
That turned out beautifully! I love the colors you chose!
Thank you so much!
I tried doing this but some of the paint peeled off too, what did i do wrong?
I would love to join pininterest! I am trying this project this weekend!
So gorgeous! I love the textures and color combo. Yeah, I’m totally stealing your idea. Hope that’s ok!
Great job!
I love that you are stealing my idea! :) Thanks!
I was browsing the YoungHouseLove Pinterst challenge and your art really stood out! Love you’re colors and pattern. Wonder if I could do this on curtains…?
You definitely could! Here’s a link to a painted curtain tutorial I saw recently!
It looks amazing! I love the combination of strong lines and softness from the colors. Nicely done!
Thank you Jadyn!
Very cute! So glad you could use my painters tape art as inspiration! : )
Thank you for the inspiration Michelle! Your lovely blog is full of it! :)
I’ve been eyeing that art in the top picture too! You did such a great job! I think I’ll tackle for my dining room!
Her art prints are gorgeous!
that is just so cute! I love the colors you chose and the pattern too!
I love that you used different colors on your board. Another project to pin. Great job.
Love this…especially with my infatuation for all things chevron! Popping in from YHL!
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Thank you Michelle! Your blog is beautiful, tons of eye candy!
I pinned this inspiration, too! Glad to see it worked out well for you. I may have to give it a try!
Looks fabulous. I will definately have to try this as my house is in dire need of some great art. Thanks for sharing.!
Well then you better get busy! ;)
love this! i’ve been wanting to recreate your first inspiration image as well – after seeing how wells yours turned out i just might have to make it happen now.
It was super easy! And it’s always fun just playin’ with colours!
I just saw that painting yesterday- Love it. And Love what you have done!!
This is excellent! I’ll definitely be trying this soon!
I saw your link on YHL and had to stop by!
Oh. My. Goodness. The second I saw this art on Pinterest, I pinned it and bookmarked the site. I showed my husband because the prints are actually really affordable (which is hard to find with art I like), but he said he didn’t like the colors. Now you have inspired me to try to sway him to let me recreate it with different colors!
Yours turned out beautiful! I am seriously drooling on my keyboard, I love it that much. Haha!
I joined up for the challenge as well. You can check out my post if you would like here: http://www.redheadinruffledflats.com/2011/11/pinterest-challenge-changing-shades.html
Haha, you should try making it! I am hopping to buy one of her prints too, I just love them! Thank you so much Sarah!
Love the original painting and was considering DIYing one for myself. Glad to see it’s relatively easy. You did a great job!!
I love your take on the chevron painting! I too have pinned that image, and now I can’t wait to try your DIY version! Thanks
You better believe that I’m pinning this! This is great!!
This is adorable! Great colors!!! Love chevron patterns
This looks awesome! Love your lamp, too :) You did a great job!
If you’d like, come by and see my pinterest challenge post
Jenny
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This is so beautiful!!! Thanks for the DIY! I really want to try it out :)
Wow this turned out awesome! I’m gonna Pin it!
I love this! Great job!
Thank you so much for all the lovely comments everyone!
I’ve got the original pinned, but had put it in the ‘too hard basket’. You’ve made it look so easy though! I’m definitely going to give it a go now. Thanks for the DIY :)
Thank you so much! You really should give it a try, super easy!
LOVE! You did such an amazing job! When I first saw the original painting on Pinterest I wondered how it could be redone.
AH-Mazing!! Great job!! so Inspired by all of these fun Pinterest Challenges!!!
LOVE!!! Amazing job, this is a really great project. I will definitely be pinning this and trying it myself! Thanks so much for the inspiration.
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I’m not going to lie, this is REALLY cool! I love all things chevron and I really think you kicked it up a notch here. I love DIY art, it means so much more than something you bought :)
I’m going to have to try this one!
This is sooo cool! I love the colors.. and I wouldn’t have thought to use the gold spray paint first, but that really kicks it up a notch!
The challenge sounds fun and the painting turned out great. I may have to do this.
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This is gorgeous! I love DIY art and yours turned out beautifully.
You did great! I love that. Looks lovely on your shelf.
Shannon
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Love love love this! I’m going to try doing this, this week for sure! I was looking for something abstract but yet structured….
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Yours is AWESOME! Here’s what I did – http://www.hardlyhousewives.com/2011/11/goodness-gracious-papers.html
I love having DIY-ed art…so unique and satisfying when you get it right!
Great tutorial and what a pretty blog! x
Love this! Such a simple thing to do! Christmas gifts!
Hmmm, I hadn’t thought of that! But it would be great for Christmas gifts!
Thanks!
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What a fantastic idea. I have a couple canvasses I’ve grown tired of and I think I may paint over them with this technique. Thanks for sharing!
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I love this idea, it looks so good. I might need to give it a try
This is great!! I keep buying canvases hoping to be inspired one day…now I know what to do with them!! Thanks for the inspiration!
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love pinterest, & i love this diy wall art challenge.
your end results looks great.
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Agreed! Your final project turned out really sweet. :-)
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I would LOVE an invite to Pinterest! Just heard about it today and have already seen some amazing things including your oh so cool chevron art!! Great job!!
I would love to join in as well! I think it sounds like so much fun!!
Completely stumbled upon your blog today and am in love with this project! Great job and great use of color! Could you possibly please re-post your initial inspiration link for the very top photo? i wanted to try to get a closer look…
And oh, if it isn’t too much trouble, may I twist your arm for a Pinterest invite? :)
Thanks so much!
Joan
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Just stumbled on this post…love the inspiration pics! Do you know where that first pic is from? (looks like the pin was taken down. :( )
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these are so pretty! i was wondering though how to do the first pattern?
This is so cute ! I love chevrons.
It seems easy to do but measuring and me makes 10, so the masking tape phase is kinda of a challenge for me :( (placing the verical strips, ok, then ? argh).
thanks for the tutorial !
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Totally going to do this tonight. I love the neutral colors and almost water marked transition between the shades of pink, purple, cream and orange. I’ll replace the orange with yellow though to match my room a bit more.
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What size canvas did you use?
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