split the lark--: Make Your Own Personlized Eye Chart

I have so been loving the modern/industrial movement in home decor right now. I don't know if this is stemming from our near-future move to a loft, but I am just in love with the industrial look right now. Plumbing pipe, open brick, bright and bold colors! I love it all!

I have really been focusing recently on getting all of our artwork framed for the new house, as well as adding new pieces. With my love of industrial decor right now, I wanted to make a few pieces to hang on the wall. Today's tutorial is my first one! And I have to say, I absolutely love it!

I got the idea to make an eye chart about a week ago. I had started playing around with words and fonts on microsoft word, but it just wasn't coming along as well as I wanted. That's when I thought of looking it up on pinterest! And found this tutorial!

What You Will Need:-printer
-picture frame (I used an 8x10 matted frame)

Step 1: go to www.eyechartmaker.com. There, you will be able to play around and customize your own chart. It is a little tricky getting the wording right with the line spacing and the amount of letters you are able to use. I had to throw in an '-' to make mine look right. Play around with it and have fun!

This is what I came up with. As you can imagine, I don't really want my artwork to have someone's URL on it. So this is what I did next to fix that!

Step 2: Go to picnik and upload your eye chart once you have saved it to your computer. In the editing mode, select 'add stickers'. I chose to add a rectangle from the 'geometric' section, made it white, stretched it to cover the URL and voila! No more website on my artwork! I think this is perfectly acceptable being that I give them full credit for their awesome website and am sending my readers to them!

Step 3: You can now either add another line to go over the spot where the website previously was, or leave it blank. I chose to add our names for one final personalized touch, and this is what my finished product looks like!

Step 4: Print your eye chart out. I used picture paper, but this is not a necessity. You can use regular copier paper if that's all you have. I just like the glossy look of photo paper. And you're done! Hang it somewhere lovely and enjoy!

This was such a quick and easy way to add some "Meghan and Ben flavor" to our home. I love our quote "You have stolen my heart". It is 'our song' which we danced to at our wedding. Our song that Ben has tattooed in binary on his arm. This is the song that reminds me of my awesome husband, and now it hangs in our home, with our wedding month on it, and our names!