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September 19, 2013 By Emily 9 Comments

State Canvas Artwork

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This State Canvas Artwork is one of my favorite crafts I have created so far and I am excited to get to share it with all of you. I had seen a few posts on Pinterest for initial art on canvases but I wanted to do something to make mine unique. Well I have a pretty creative husband who came up with the idea to have the middle canvas represent us and the two states we come from, myself from Alabama and him from Tennessee. We have a big football rivalry being from those two states, lucky for me my team does most of the winning as of late.

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I started out by purchasing three canvases. I went with the square ones because they were the only sizes in stock that worked. I chose a larger canvas for the middle and two smaller ones for the sides. I got two wooden letters, a T for Tyler and an E for Emily. I chose paint colors to match my room, a beige for the canvases and black for the letter and stenciling. I got some tracing paper to trace for the middle canvas.

I began by painting the canvases the beige color and the wooden letters black. Tyler helped me out with this project. He took the tracing paper and traced the outlines of the states of Alabama and Tennessee onto the canvas and filled the states in with black paint. He took a red pen and drew little hearts where we both grew up.

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I then hot glued the wooden letters to the two smaller canvases. Let everything dry and hung them up on my bedroom wall. They look so pretty and I just love them.

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Sadly right now they are packed away waiting to be hung up in our next house. But they will have a prominent place there.

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Filed Under: Crafts Tagged With: art, artwork, canvas, Crafts, diy, Paint, Rivalry, states

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  1. Mary Leigh says

    September 19, 2013 at 6:50 pm

    Love it! Can’t wait to see the new house; I hope everything goes smoothly!

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    • Emily says

      September 19, 2013 at 9:31 pm

      Thank you!!

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  2. Zoe Ziegenhagen says

    September 20, 2013 at 2:35 pm

    Love this! I nominated you for a sunshine award on my blog! Here is the link:

    http://zoekolleen.blogspot.com/2013/09/sunshine-award-acceptance.html

    Have a great day!

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    • Emily says

      September 20, 2013 at 3:47 pm

      Thank you! I will head on over and check it out!

      Reply
  3. Antonella says

    September 26, 2013 at 6:27 pm

    I love all the state art that is out there, and love how you incorporated your home towns and initials in your artwork!
    I linked over from the Homemade by You Party where I am participating with my
    Thank You Card,
    Ghost Card and Free Cut File,
    Have a BOOlicious Day Digi
    I would love it if you’d stop by.
    Hugs, antonella 🙂

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    • Emily says

      September 26, 2013 at 6:28 pm

      Thank you! I love how it turned out. Thank you for coming by!

      Reply
  4. Laura @ The Turquoise Home says

    October 2, 2013 at 12:12 am

    I love this because I’m from Tennessee and my hubby is from Alabama. {We live in Alabama.} And while we’re not quite the football rivals that you and your hubby are, we still cheer for two different SEC schools: Tennessee and Auburn. At least we can agree on our dislike of Alabama. 🙂 GO VOLS!!

    Thanks for linking up to Work it Wednesday! We’d love to have you come by in the morning!!

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    • Emily says

      October 2, 2013 at 1:05 pm

      That’s great! I love to hear about other couples who are football rivals. It’s fun 🙂

      Reply

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