Wise words

I've had this canvas lying around for months - since I lived in Ontario. I've known what I wanted to do with it for ages but for some reason, kept putting it off. Well, I finally got around to it this weekend and it was SO simple. I have no idea why I left it so long. Here's what I did:

My supplies:

Instead of giving the canvas a coat of regular white paint, I sprayed it with 3 thin coats of flat white spray paint, letting it dry for 8-10 minutes between coats.

Then, came the hard part - deciding what to write on it. I knew I wanted to pull inspiration from my "words" board on Pinterest, but narrowing down the exact words I wanted to use was the tough part. These were some of the final contenders:

When I finally selected the winning words, I wrote them out lightly in pencil in the lower left corner of the canvas. I used washi tape to help with even spacing.

When I was happy with how they looked, I used my gold paint pen to trace over the pencil. (I also had a gold sharpie - but I liked the look of the paint pen best). The gold paint glitters in the sunlight - you can kind of see it in the word "fire" below.

Et voila!

The desk placement is just temporary - I'm not entirely sure where it's going to end up. I may end up adding something else to it too but for now I like it how it is.