I Got A Fever Of A Hundred and Three.

My last post was the most popular post I have ever shared on The Grey Blog!  Thank you, thank you, thank you for stopping by to see my yarn-wrapped letters, repinning, liking, tweeting, etc.  What a confidence-boosting experience it was to stalk my blog stats over the last couple of days :)

Several Christmases ago, I attempted to paint a rustic-ish sign that said, "Looks great!  Little full.  Lotta sap."  I thought it would be very funny to have a really nice looking decoration with such a funny and iconic/cultish quote on it (do you know which movie I'm talking about?).  I was painting the letters by hand and it did not go well.  It was an impossible craft fail and I was really perturbed.  Really.  Very.

I saw canvases like these surface on Pinterest over the last year or so and realized this is what I needed to be doing lo' those many years ago with my sap sign:

Source: southernbellesoulmountainbrideheart.blogspot.com via Maggie on Pinterest

Using vinyl letters took the guess work out of getting consistent sizes & shapes of letters and naturally, provided a clean & uniform look.  I put this method of no-fail lettering to work for a Valentine's Day project that makes me chuckle.

I am going to delay telling you the seasonally-appropriate quote I chose for as long as I can.  I will say that I scanned my brain file of every Ella Fitzgerald, Diana Krall, and Dave Matthews Band song I could think of in hopes of finding just the right lovey-dovey quote.  The one I came up with was not made famous by any of the aforementioned musicians.  But oh, is it good.

Take a peek at how I made my Valentine's Day Statement Canvas!  Oh, and those Martha Stewart Crafts paints are GLITTER PAINT!  The color on the left is Garnet, and the one on the right, Candy Apple.  I used Garnet for this project!

Final thoughts?  Make one.  I will definitely do this again.  I didn't realize the paint I bought was so sheer, though.  I like that the music shows through under it, but there's not much contrast between the letters and the background.  In the future, I'd use a more opaque paint first and then glitter over it, if I wanted.  

I absolutely am not putting this in the "craft fail" category.  There are a couple of things I could do to make it pop, like adding a single, paper-punched heart in the lower right corner, or outlining the letters with a Sharpie, or metallic paint pen... What do you think?  Please let me know if you have any suggestions!  I'm not doing anything with it for now!  

Hope you like this.  I'm going to be doing something similar with my daughter today since it is cold & windy here, again.  We'll probably go with a more traditional Valentine saying, instead of cracking into the Billboard Hot 100 chart from 1978.