Sometimes, when I get an Idea in my head, I can be a real idiot about it. I had planned on making my sister in-law something crocheted, but bombed at my first attempt and then just couldn't think of anything better to make. Well, one day, like an idiot, I'm going through pinterest (perhaps someday I'll talk about why pinterest is oh so very dangerous to my productivity levels) and see these great house rules. Then, I see a canvas transfer and I'm like "Wheeee! I'll put them together and it will look AWESOME! Plus, it will be way easier than crocheting something!"
*disclaimer: when you can crochet a hat in an hour, attempting any new project such as this definitely should not be classified as "easier."*
Durrr. I spent probably a total of 10-15 hours working on this blasted thing, partially because I couldn't find the rub-off letters that I wanted (which in hindsight, should have looked harder for) and ended up doing stencils on the whole thing. By the time I had all the white stenciled, I had smears and splotches and had to go back with the black.
Let me state, photo transfers are awesome. They're fun, they're cool and I guarantee that I'll be doing a lot more of them in the future. I did two when I first made them, "Just In Case" and boy was I glad I did. The first one I glued down onto the black and it looked terrible. Their faces pretty much disappeared and I ended up painting white over it, and putting down the second transfer.
They got their final coat spray the night before we left to go back to visit them, and wrapped sometime around 4 am....