Vintage Eye Chart

Vintage Eye Chart and Subway Art are all the rage on a ton of the blogs I follow. I decided to give it a try too. I actually did this project before I received the second most awesome birthday gift ever from my dear sweet hubs, a Cricut Expression (The first most awesome gift was the Tahoe he got me! A car and a Cricut for my birthday in the same year! I totally scored the best husband around!). That's a whole other post though. Anyway, at the time I didn't have a Cricut so I had to improvise. I started with a 16x20 frame I picked up at the Thrift Store. It was just a simple black frame with a hand sketched portrait of a cute little pup. It even had a 4x6 taped to the back of it of the artist drawing it. I hated to throw the sketch away but for some reason I don't think Schnauzers fit into my decor, so alas, it went to the trash. I created a 16x20 canvas in Photoshop and created the eye chart using a favorite quote from The Beatles. "The love you take is equal to the love you make." I added a vintage paper to the top of it and faded it to make it look old and worn. I had the image printed at Sam's Club for under $5.00. I plopped it right into the black frame. Since everything in my living room is brown instead of black, I gave the frame a good coat of Krylon Brushed Nickel spray paint and now it fits right in. I love how it turned out. Cute huh?