More Painting

I have a couple of pieces of "art" that I made at girls night out at Painting With a Twist that were sitting behind my closet door.  They had about a 1% chance of ever being hung on display somewhere in our house so I decided to repurpose them.  I painted over my masterpiece with white paint to have a like new canvas.

I had seen some ideas on Pinterest of using vinyl letters and/or painters tape to put a name or word or phrase on a canvas, letting your child paint over the letters and then peeling the tape off to create a personalized piece of art.  Here is an example.

Well, I don't have one of those fancy machines that can cut out letters and didn't have time to go out and buy vinyl letters from the craft store so I just cut mine out of contact paper (that can be purchased at Target on your daily weekly trip).

I decided we'd make a little art for Daddy's office.  I found some cute Daddy quote's online but was not about to cut out several words myself.  So I decided to use the phrase "daddy work".  You see, Cason says this A LOT.  It's really not that Ryan works all the time, but it's just that since I've been home on maternity leave, Cason has put it together that Mommy was at home and Daddy was not.  So he asks for Daddy a lot and I have to say "Daddy is at work" and that has become Cason saying "daddy work" All.The.Time.

Anyway, I thought I could cut out 9 letters without going crazy so "daddy work" was the winner.  I added a couple of pieces of blue painters tape just for fun, put down a drop cloth and covered the table and we started painting.

Cason loved it... so much that he painted his hair blue!

The finished product!  I was pretty happy with it and Ryan really liked it.  The only problem is that he doesn't have any wall space at his office... I hope this canvas hasn't just moved from my closet to his!

If I do this project again, I hope not to have to cut out my own letters.  And if I do, I'll probably give the letter section of the canvas a coat of paint myself and let it dry to help the letters stick during the painting process.  Cason was a little aggressive with his paint brush and pealed a couple of the letters up as we were painting.