Make Your Own Subway Art

I am in love with some of the subway art I've seen HERE and HERE.

It's so easy to make and super cheap too!!!

So I decided to make some of my own using the 9 Be's by President Hinckley.

Because I had most of the supplies needed already on hand, my total cost for this project was 20 cents!!!

{The price of an enlarged copy of the original image I wanted to use.}

So the supplies for this project include:

- a piece of wood {I used a left over piece of mdf, but places like Home Depot will cut wood to your exact dimensions if you need them to.} 

- paint

- mod podge

- Paint brushes {one for mod podge/one for paint}

- an enlarged copy of whatever you want your subway art to be

{Here is my enlarged copy.}

For some reason, the copy place people had to retype my subway art copy in order to enlarge it to the dimensions that I wanted {11X17}.  When they did this, they spaced the words out a lot more than I originally had them and made them a bit smaller.  I didn't bother making them fix it because I had two kids that we're dying to go potty!

So anyway, to make the back ground of my copy look a little more aged and not so stark black, I sanded it both horizontally and vertically.  It left a lot of black dust so I wiped it off using an old rag.

{Kind of looks like a chalkboard now...although that wasn't exactly what I was going for.}

I painted my mdf board white and then when it dried I brushed mod podge onto it, placed my copy in the center, and then brushed another layer of mod podge over the whole thing.

After it dried, this was the finished product.

I really like it!!!

My favorite part is that once I hang it in my home, I'll be reminded of some pretty important qualities I need to always be working on.

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