Man-Cave Man-Wall!

Happy Monday, friends! I hope your weekend was great! We had an excellent turnout to this week's Fabulous Friday! I will have to get some features up here one day this week. I am seriously impressed!

I figured that I would finally get around to showing you guys the new Dallas Gallery in the den that I made Michael for his birthday! (I made him hang the shadow boxes...I stink at those wall anchor things!) You may remember seeing the canvas when I made it. I posted it about a month ago (HERE). Well here it is in all of its glory on the wall in the man cave!

 This is an actual piece of game-used turf from Texas stadium, the old one, before they imploded it. I found it online and knew we needed to have a little chunk! It looks great on the wall with the new stadium!

 We sort of just filled the shadow boxes with random Dallas paraphernalia that we had sitting around. I really like the way that it turned out though! We have an old Dallas jersey that we don't wear that I would like to somehow incorporate into the wall grouping as well, I just need to find it! I am pretty sure it is still in a box somewhere from before we were married and living in one house! (Yeah that was almost 2 years ago...terrible!)

I know that was not the most thrilling post to read, but I wanted to share a little piece of our den with you guys! And to show you how great the art looks actually on a wall!

Custom Canvas Art

My husband is a HUGE Dallas Cowboys fan. So for his birthday, I wanted to get him tings to "pimp" his man cave. We have several large, nekked walls down  there, just begging to be decorated! Once I started brainstorming, the best option I could think of was a fun wall grouping. I wanted to get him a large canvas of the new Cowboys Stadium. I started scouring the net, and for 8x10's alone, the prices were in the 100's!!! And I wanted bigger than 8x10. Then, I got a brilliant idea!

I went to AC Moore and got a 16x20 canvas. With a coupon, it was $7! Then I scoured the web and found a free downloadable photo of cowboys stadium. I was fully prepared to pay the $15 or so for the print, and then I found a coupon for a free 16x20 poster at WalMart! The very day I needed one. Talk about dumb luck!

So I picked up my poster and here is what I got!

I was really happy with the quality of the print! It is not thin poster paper like I was expecting, but was nice heavy matte photo paper. So I busted on the Mod Podge and covered the canvas with it.

And then I carefully lined up the print to the canvas and pressed it down. I used a credit card to smooth out the air bubbles and voila!

I was originally going to paint the edges, but I think I like them white! So I am leaving them! I also got a set of shadow boxes and a plague with game used turf from Texas Stadium. We hung them in a grouping last night and I love it! I will have to share a picture with you guys!

I would definitely recommend this project to anyone! I may do it with a photo of us at some point, if I get one that is the quality that I want. It is such an affordable (even if you pay for the print) alternative to purchasing a canvas!


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