Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Printed Mini Art Canvas

Today I Created | A printed mini art canvas.


I once saw something like this hanging on a wall in the background of magazine photo. It looked warm and inviting in a kitchen so I wanted to duplicate the look by printing on canvas and wrapping it on canvas stretcher bars. Not having real art canvas and stretcher bars, I used supplies in my stash.

I found the Fork, Knife and Spoon image on the Graphics Fairy blog here. I rotated the knife in the original image. Next I placed the image on a digital grunge background that I had purchased from a stock photography site several years ago. Once I was happy with the size and the placement I printed it on Avery Printable Fabric (available at office supply stores).

I had a pack of plain, small wooden frames from Ikea so I used them as my canvas stretcher bars. I used extra sticky tape on the back of the bars and wrapped the canvas around to the back. I designed the grunge image to wrap around the sides of the stretcher bars.

Here are the supplies I used.


Addendum: This was highlighted on These Creative Juices. Thank you!

12 comments:

  1. I love this idea! It honestly looks like something that you'd pay a lot of money for at Pottery Barn. I've never used fabric in my printer. Did it find it went through the printer okay?

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  2. Thanks for the comment! This fabric is designed to be used in ink jet printers and it worked flawlessly. I was a bit skeptical but it printed beautifully. It says that it can be washed and sewn onto other fabrics so there are a lot of possibilities. The fabric has a stiff backing (I think the backing can be washed off) which allows it to pass smoothly through a printer. The only drawback is that it only comes in 8.5" x 11" size and is a bit pricy (approximately $3 a sheet).

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  3. That looks awesome! Thanks so much for sharing!

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  4. Oh, this is stunning!!! Thank you so much for linking it up!!
    XO

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  5. This really looks wonderful, Lynda! Very creative!!

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  6. What a lovely job you've done on this-it's very elegant1

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  7. Great idea, thanks for sharing. I'll all for using what you have on hand. The price of canvas boards is outrageous.

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  8. What a cool product we focus on Canvas print that allows users to put photos on canvas but a canvas business card is a great idea.
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  9. What a cool way to have custom artwork! I have seen that printable fabric at Staples but had no idea how to really use it; thanks for the inspiration!

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  10. A DIY methodology applied by an individual for canvas prints as a hobby.
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