Nursery Wall Canvases

I spent this weekend painting, cutting, gluing and piecing...to make these for the new baby boy's nursery:

which were shamelessly "inspired" and lifted by these prints from Babies R Us:

 

I used 16" x 20" canvases, scraps of various patterned papers and just went to town paper piecing them all together.  Since I had pictures to work from, I was able to free-hand the various shapes pretty well.  Once all the animals were put together, I used my sewing machine to stitch a border around the outline of each animal.  Then I painted the backgrounds of the canvases and taped off borders to make the brown border around each canvas.  Finally, I used mod-podge to put them all together and protect them. 

Here are close-ups of each:

This was a fun project and I love the textured finish...much better than buying prints I think....but thenit did take two full days of work to finish them!

 

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Submitted by Andrea on Sun, 02/08/2009 - 21:06.

russphillips | Tue, 03/10/2009 - 11:57

 These are great Andrea! Much better than the original even!

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yazbelle | Tue, 02/17/2009 - 15:58

What crib set are you using?

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Andrea | Tue, 02/17/2009 - 16:36

I'm using the same bed set that a friend of mine made for Ayla's room:
http://www.scrapjazz.com/galleries/4/view/391531/-1/200/1.html
 

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elizbailey | Sun, 02/15/2009 - 23:06

I definitely like yours better than the inspiration! The stiching around the edges was a perfect touch!

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LesleMora | Fri, 02/13/2009 - 11:51

You are just too talented!  Love them!

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janlynns | Thu, 02/12/2009 - 23:56

too cute! Great job!

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jwinters | Thu, 02/12/2009 - 09:29

You are so talented!

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Tiffany | Wed, 02/11/2009 - 10:06

Simply adorable!  You're so talented!

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janel | Mon, 02/09/2009 - 23:07

Okay, wow!!

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lindasteed | Mon, 02/09/2009 - 19:37

They are just adorable, Andrea! That little boy is going to love talking to them! I am still trying to figure out how you sew on canvas. :)

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rsteed | Mon, 02/09/2009 - 16:09

Those look so good Andrea!! I agree that they look better than the ones in the store. Good job!

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wbcradic | Mon, 02/09/2009 - 11:12

A, those look great!  (Much better than my frog... :)

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acmickelson | Mon, 02/09/2009 - 00:47

I like yours a lot more than the Babies 'R Us prints from which they came. Very nicely done.

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Prlinehan | Sun, 02/08/2009 - 21:26

good golly, lady, you sure are fancy!  I would've never thought to do any kind of sewing on that!  I smell etsy...

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