I love monograms!  They add a personal touch to a space and always look great.  I wanted a large monogram on the wall above each of my boys beds.  I thought about just buying a decal on Etsy and placing it directly on the wall.  But then I decided I wanted something a bit chunkier with more impact.  I also didn’t want to spend a lot of money, so I made the monograms myself.

I started out with 2 square canvases that I purchased at Michaels with a half off coupon.  I sprayed them with 2 coats of orange spray paint.

I printed out the monograms on my computer and then took them to FedEx Office (I wish it was still called Kinkos) to have them enlarged.  We used this proportion scale to figure out how big to copy them.

I then used an exacto knife to carefully cut out each circle and letter.  This took patience, but was not terribly difficult.

For some reason, I stopped taking pictures at this point.  So I will proceed to explain the rest.

Once everything was cut, I traced the monograms onto white contact paper.  I then cut them out of the contact paper using my exacto knife.  This took a while, but it was totally worth it.  Then I peeled the backing off the contact paper and applied the monogram to the canvas.  It was a little tricky to get it centered, but luckily the canvas and paper were very forgiving.  I peeled the paper off a few times to readjust and it continued to stick just fine.

I am thrilled with how these turned out.  The canvases were $15.00 each and the roll of contact paper was $3.00.  I already had the paint.  So the total cost for both pieces was just $33.00.  Not to shabby for some good looking diy art.  I hung them up while my boys were at school and they were so excited when they saw them for the first time.  They felt so special that their own letter was on the wall.