Our fabric covered monogrammed canvas

April 25, 2015: Back in December, I’ve been wanting to test my Mod Podge skills further by taking on a fabric on canvas project. You take a blank canvas and cover it with fabric (attaching it via staples on the back of the canvas frame). Then you apply Mod Podge over the fabric to seal it and to give it that glossy finish.

I had plenty of canvases laying around (from that wicked A.C. Moore 60% sale), so for this project I chose a 12 x 24 piece for this project. I made a special trip to Joann’s on November 23, 2014 to choose the fabric (and I went with pretty yellow chevron pattern).

I did the 12 x 24 fabric canvas project on December 5th. I first wrapped the chevron fabric around the canvas.

I used a heavy-duty stapler gun to staple the fabric to the back of the canvas frame.

I then applied Mod Podge to the entire surface of the fabric covered canvas. (As you can see, I was doing this project in conjunction with my wood letter paper decorated canvases which also need Mod Podge).

Once the Mod Podge dried, I focused on the canvas design. I knew I wanted to continue the monogram theme from my Mod Podge paper-covered canvas projects (an X for Xenia, an M for Malik, a J for Jardell, etc.). But this time, I wanted to create something for me and Bruce using our initials (something that I can showcase in our condo).

So I took the 8 inch B and V letters and went to work. Tried arranging them side-by-side vertically and horizontally. Didn’t quite work for me. Too plain looking. Needed an embellishment to make it more eye-catching.

So I took some stained clothespins left over from trying Stephanie Lynn’s clothespin snowflakes project and played around with those.

I figured this would be too “girlie” for the “B”, so I played with different design ideas using my V monogram.

 I then gave up and added the B. I needed it for more dimension and to balance out each element on the canvas. And here’s what I came up with.

The clothespin snowflake in the middle is stained with the same color – Early American – four lightly stained and four with deeper, darker stain.

Simple. Elegant. Cute. And charming. This looked fantastic on every wall. I absolute love it.

I first hung our mongrammed canvas in the living room above the couch.

I eventually moved the canvas to our bedroom to be displayed above the bed. And that’s where it will stay. The bedroom wall is its homebase. Here’s how it looked on December 7th.

As we’ve updated the bedroom (and changed the headboard and wall decor, the monogrammed fabric canvas remained in place). Here’s the canvas above the new headboard on March 9th.

And this is how it looks above raised headboard today.

This is by far my most favorite monogrammed canvas project. Read on for sordid details about my least favorite (ugh). Enjoy. V-