Reed's Baby Birth Print

I was lucky enough to have the ability to take a whole week away from work and spend a long vacation in Los Angeles for the birth of my precious nephew Reed!  While there, I wanted to help decorate the baby room and started looking on Pinterest and Etsy for inspiration.  I came across theses and decided it would be perfect. 

 http://www.etsy.com/listing/87515824/personalized-boys-nursery-art-print-car?ref=sr_gallery_34&ga_search_query=baby+birth+print&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_ship_to=ZZ&ga_min=0&ga_max=0&ga_search_type=all

 http://www.etsy.com/listing/97200298/custom-birth-announcement-11x14-nursery?ref=sr_gallery_19&ga_search_query=baby+birth+print&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_ship_to=ZZ&ga_min=0&ga_max=0&ga_search_type=all

With earthquakes being so frequent, literally no pictures are on the walls in my sister's house and particularly not near where the kids frequent... so I needed something light weight and kid-friendly should an earthquake occur and this idea fit the need.

I purchased all the supplies from Michael's:

Canvas Board 18" x 24"

Paint (see photo below)

Paint Brushes (variety of sizes based on stencils)

Stencils (variety, I used 5 different packs which ended up being the most costly items)

I had also bought these mdf letters of his name for another project and ended up tracing them for his name because the font was so cute and fit perfect across the canvas.

I traced everything out before painting anything.  There really wasn't much opportunity to mess up, so I wanted to figure it all out before I painted anything.

Simple acrylic craft paint worked great and these were on sale for $0.29 a piece!

The stencils can get expensive and you are limited to what you can find at the craft store.  I ended up having to go back to find a package with large numbers... check the package carefully to make sure it has more than just letters.

LOTS and LOTS of time painting!

Final product... now it just needs to be hung on the wall!