Riot and Frolic

After rearranging my ladies' bedrooms, I was left with one wall of the Green Room completely blank.  It was a lonely wall to the left of the door and it made me a little sad every time I was walking in to get the Mae Cake.  It was short spurt of sadness, to be true, because after you round the door there's a party in the corner, what with the actual furniture, tissue paper flowers, and cute kid.

I had seen artists' canvas on sale at Michael's, so I decided to try a project I'd seen: fabric-wrapped boards.

After stopping at Michael's where I bought a two-pack of 11"x14" and 8"x10" canvi (I'm pretty sure that's the plural for "canvas"), I stopped at Jo-Anne Fabrics to grab a few fat quarters that match my proposed color scheme.  

I unfolded my little fat quarters in jubilation, realizing the green pattern was even better when it was unfurled.  I also realized I should probably iron my fabric before trying to glue it on the canvas.  I'm really glad I didn't get lazy on this one and decided to make the trip up two sets of stairs to turn on that iron.  

Instructions are pretty straight-forward for this one.  

Put your canvas on the fabric and cut your fabric with enough extra to wrap around the sides.

Put a decent trail of glue (I'm using Quick Grip by Beacon) around your canvas's backside, then fold the sides of your fabric onto said glue.  Next, fold in your top and bottom fabric and press onto the glue.  Ta-da!

I did the easy version on my three boards for the Green Room, where I folded the fabric in like I would wrap a present.  It's a little bulky and I think someday I'll cover the edge with some awesome ribbon or contrasting fabric.  But this way, it took maybe three minutes each to make.

I happened to have one 11"x14" canvas left AND this amazing fabric that I had bought the other day at Crafty Planet which was burning a hole in my… sewing machine?  I couldn't figure out what I wanted to make out of this fabric, but I kept thinking, "I just want to look at it."  Light bulb!  (You must say that like Gru says it in Despicable Me and you haven't seen that, you have heard the greatest bad-Russian accent ever.)

Well, here it is:

Ahhhh.  You're so pretty.

I decided to try a different technique on this one.

I cut the corners of the fabric, so there would be no fabric folded up on the edge.  It was a bit more putsy and a pain in the arse.  It probably added a whole three minutes to that board!  Lame!

Really, it looks great, but I'm a lazy crafter, so I liked the first way better.

In any case, I got these great wall hangings for about $4 a piece and 15 minutes of my time!  Woohoo!

The ladies liked them enough to pose for a picture.

They're in their jammies there.  They might have the same size on.  And by "might," I mean, they do.