1/30- Song Lyric Art

Okay, so the name of it isn't that great. But this kept popping up all over, and I had to give it a shot. The original was made by Elsie over at A Beautiful Mess. It was made with a song lyric over a paint by number. 

It seemed pretty cute so I thought I'd try it out. I'm not a fan of paint by numbers. But I do have  around 150  movie cards that I got when Blockbuster went out of business. I sorted them into ones that had some cool colors to show through the white and decided on Across The Universe. Picked out a lyric, and ran into my first problem: Not enough letters. My particular quote had 14 Es in it and there was no way I would be able to use the same kind of font throughout. Craft room to the rescue though, and we scrounged up enough letters to make it work.

I thought it looked pretty cool like this

Step 1: Spray paint a clear coat over whatever you are putting the stickers on, this keeps it from tearing when you remove the stickers

Step 2: Spell out your quote with stickers (I used a long quote so more showed through because of the small stickers)

Step 3: Spray paint the whole thing with white. Let dry. (I ended up with two coats just to make sure nothing showed through. I missed a bit at the bottom though)

Step 4: Remove the stickers. Tweezers worked well for this. 

Done!

I think mine turned out a little Dr Seuss-esque with the different fonts and the fact that the letters aren't straight. But I think it worked out well enough.

All in all I thought this was a fun, quick, and easy project I'll probably be making more, perhaps in different colors to hang around my apartment to give it a little bit of life.