Almost Epic Fail

I love Pinterest...it's not a secret.  When I finally sit down at night, I just want to look at Pinterest and find all kinds of wonderful and new projects to try.  

 I had seen some silhouettes on canvas that I decided to try, and, well, it wasn't as easy as it looked.

I have always wanted to be the kind of blogger that goes through each step of a project with descriptive photos and witty commentary, but I have to face the music and realize that THAT is just not me, and my boring photos and boring description will have to do. 

I started with 4 (four) 16"x20" white canvases and profile photos of my boys.
 

(I don't know why this photo is on its side...???)

With black craft paint, I painted the sides of each of the canvas boards.  I don't know why I did this...I guess I just thought it would have a more "finished" look. 

I'm cracking myself up as I type that.

In the meantime, I sent the photos to Costco photo shop to have them blown up to 14"x16" prints. 

When I got them home, I carefully cut the profiles out and turned them over to paint the back side with black craft paint.

Once they had dried, I used spray adhesive (as the Pinterest site told me to do) and glued them to the canvas.

And here is where the Almost Epic Fail occurred.

They didn't stick.

At all.

Not even a little bit.

And I've got a crazy internal conflict going on because I don't want to use any more spray adhesive and I can't use Mod Podge now because it will react with the adhesive and not work as it should.  I'm thinking I will just take them out to the trash and stuff them in.

And then I thought twice about that...

So, I put them in my extra room and shut the door because things that don't work like they should just completely tick me off.

A couple of days later, (today) I had an epiphany...

I grabbed one of my favorite things in the whole world--

SPRAY PAINT!!!

I taped the silhouettes to the canvas and then started spraying. 

And for the record...I'm thrilled about how they turned out!

As it turns out, it wasn't a fail at all, but a fun new addition to my upstairs hallway.

Score!