Pinspiration - Lyric Wall Art

I have been wanting to make some lyric wall art for awhile now. I am a huge music fan! I love all types of music and songs, but I am especially drawn to songs with strong lyrics. So, putting my favorite lyrics on my wall was really a no-brainer for me.

While this isn't the lyric project that I have at the top of my list, it was a quick and cheap wall art project to help me get my feet wet in lyric art, choosing lyrics, and assembling the words on canvas.

I found my wall art project on Pinterest via ThistleWoodFarms.

It was actually inspired by another project that was found on Pinterest. Pinterest really is inspirational!

The materials needed for this project were super simple, or so I thought:

• 4 x 4" blank canvas - I used a 10 x 10"
• paint 
• lowercase metal alphabet letters in white

Canvases can sometimes be pretty pricey, but I found mine at my local Michaels and got to use my 40% off coupon too. I debated about whether I needed to buy paint since the canvas was already white and I was going to use white letters, but I bought a little bottle of craft paint in a darker white so it wouldn't be so plain. The problem material was the white metal lowercase letters. I couldn't find it in the stores or online. I had almost given up hope when I stumbled into the kids craft aisle at Michaels. There I found a pack of 125 puffy foam letters in white. What I didn't realize until I got home was that they were actually stickers, which made this project even easier!

The hardest part about this project was figuring out which lyrics I wanted to use, and which ones would fit in a heart shape on a 10 x 10" canvas. It was both time consuming and frustrating. I'd find lyrics that I loved, but they were either too long or didn't look right shaped as a heart. So, I went through all of my top 10 favorite songs and only one had lyrics that not only fit on the canvas, worked well as a heart, but made sense too. . . Wonderwall by Oasis.



I am so in love with this song!

Assembling the canvas was super easy, especially since my letters were stickers. I painted the canvas with two coats of white paint and then placed my lyrics in a heart shape. One letter at a time, I carefully peeled the backs off of the letters and stuck them on the canvas. I didn't push the letters too hard to the canvas in case I needed to move them around, and I'm glad I did that. I had to move some of the letters in "Wonderwall" around a few times to make it fit. When it looked good I went back and pressed each letter down onto the canvas.

It is a little hard to read, but I like how subtle it is. I really love the way it turned out! I think I'm now ready to move onto a more difficult lyric wall art project. :)