Monkey'n Around: "Subway Style" Art

'Subway style' art has been popping up on all of my favorite blogs. They are usually a variation on family rules or holiday decoration. Well, we don't have family rules and I wanted something I hang on my mostly bare walls in our itty-bitty apartment, so I came up with this.

I started by coming up with a saying that makes sense to us, is not too sweet and sappy (we are just not that type) and is relatively short. I came up with my favorite verse from our first dance song, Nothing Else Matters by Metallica. I did a quick count of the different letters so I would know how may packs of vinyl letters I would need. I headed to Michael's a pick up a double pack of cheep canvas', two packs 1" of vinyl letters (found next door at staples) and a can of spray paint.

My verse is 7 lines long, but the last one could not, no matter how much I wanted it, fit on one line so I hand to make it 8. I measured the canvas and put tick marks along both ends, then used a piece of thin painters tape R had in is tool box to mark the top and bottom of my lines. This worked perfectly as my letters were 1", my lines were 1 1/4" and my tape was 1/4" wide.

Then I carefully lined up each word, well...I eyeballed most of the spacing, I did want it to look homemade and not like a computer/ machine did the work. I then applied two coats of spray paint, let dry and Sidonie and I peeled off the letters.