Faith, Hope, Love

For a LONG time I have been looking/wanting a piece of art work for above our fireplace that incorporated these 3 lovely words: faith, hope, and love.  I could never quite find what I was looking for, mostly the pieces I found were on the small side for our vaulted fireplace wall.  Now I have never been much of an artist so it never occurred to me that I could create what I was looking for.  That is until this Fall sometime when I came up with a simple design in my head.  

First I purchased 3 blank canvases and painted them red:

Then began the design work with a gold color:

I found a font I liked on the computer and created stencils:

Final product (hung by Crystal and flowers from Mike and Lyndzie):

Now to paint the white walls and do something about the not so attractive fireplace doors.

Jaden accompanied me to the craft store and when I told him that mom was going to do a craft project he stated "mom do craft project hand print."  Not quite buddy, he was remembering his craft project for the grandparents at Christmas which included his hand print.