Making your own wallart

Piggles12345

Hello!

My bedroom has white washed walls, which I love but I want to spice them up with some canvases covered with vintage Damask wallpaper like this:

http://www.homebase.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=20001&partNumber=838516&c_3=3%7Ccat_14115047%7CWallpaper%7C14115052&c_2=2%7Ccat_16849219%7CWallpaper%7C14115047&c_1=1%7Ccategory_root%7CDecorating%7C16849219

I'm not sure if this is the right board to ask this on, but I want to know what would be the best way to attach the wallpaper to the canvas... wallpaper paste? Super glue? Tape?

Any ideas are gratefully received.

Thanks

Sagz_2

I'm sorry, I've nothing usefull to say..... but I had to look as I ready the title as 'making your own wallmart' and just had to look :rotfl:

stef240377

For a few years now i have been getting plain white canvases and extra long sample rolls of wallpaper to make cheap pics for rooms in the house.

The best way i have found to keep the paper on especially some of the thicker flocks and Damasks is to staple it to the back.. Sellotape and the likes doesnt really stay on and i have found that wallpaper paste seems to peel off after a while especially if hung near heat sources. HTH.

retro_bluebell

Yep I agree a staples are the way to go...Ive got a few home made canvases some fabric and others hand painted (my OH is the artist not me) I got my staple gun for a few pounds from b and q.

Owain_Moneysaver

something like Spraymount, then turn the edges over and staple.

lisa26_2

You don't even need a staple gun, you can use a normal stapler!

Butterfly_Brain

I use staples - that way if they start looking a bit grubby after a while it is easy to strip off the paper and redo the canvas.

Whistling_Gypsy

Hi - I have a few of these (done in my artistic phase...and I am just NOT artistic ) I used spray carpet glue cos the carpet fitters left a can behind and the wallpaper has stayed 'stuck' after 4 1/2 years!! I used a strip of black and white wallpaper horizontally across a v large square canvas for my first effort (spray glued on, but stapled on the back too), black ribbon as a border (glued on the front and stapled on the back) then covered it with a (mauve:o) coloured gauze (stapled on the back all the way round) to match the spare room it was in.

In the living room I cut round a pattern off a wallpaper sample in 2 different colours, then used the spray glue to attach this to a canvas (again, stapling it to the frame at the back) bordering with matching ribbon - glued with Prittstick and stapled.

Am moving soon - and as Butterfly Brain says it will be easy to strip it all off and start again to match the new color scheme....simples!!!

I also have a canvas above my bed - about 48" by 18" which i colour matched in burgandy at B&Q to match curtains etc (about £8 for the smallest tin of paint), gave it 2 coats and then used a sponge and a few different diameter glasses dipped in black paint to create something different and original (I think )

Hope this helps - if you are interested, I'll try and post some pics before we move....

Whistling_Gypsy

Oh - just thought -saw a staple gun today in Boyes I think.....wa £3.20 anyway...bargain!! I've used mine loads for different jobs...at that price I was tempted to get a spare!!

Piggles12345

Whistling_Gypsy wrote: »

Hi - I have a few of these (done in my artistic phase...and I am just NOT artistic ) I used spray carpet glue cos the carpet fitters left a can behind and the wallpaper has stayed 'stuck' after 4 1/2 years!! I used a strip of black and white wallpaper horizontally across a v large square canvas for my first effort (spray glued on, but stapled on the back too), black ribbon as a border (glued on the front and stapled on the back) then covered it with a (mauve:o) coloured gauze (stapled on the back all the way round) to match the spare room it was in.

In the living room I cut round a pattern off a wallpaper sample in 2 different colours, then used the spray glue to attach this to a canvas (again, stapling it to the frame at the back) bordering with matching ribbon - glued with Prittstick and stapled.

Am moving soon - and as Butterfly Brain says it will be easy to strip it all off and start again to match the new color scheme....simples!!!

I also have a canvas above my bed - about 48" by 18" which i colour matched in burgandy at B&Q to match curtains etc (about £8 for the smallest tin of paint), gave it 2 coats and then used a sponge and a few different diameter glasses dipped in black paint to create something different and original (I think )

Hope this helps - if you are interested, I'll try and post some pics before we move....

Hi Gypsy,

That sounds amazing!

I really wanted a rectangular canvas for above my bed around the size of yours but I can't find one anywhere. Where did you get your 48" by 18" from?

Thanks