Creative / Crafty Damsels - Q for you

**TopStar** · 24-01-2012, 01:29pm

Is there a nice way to display a poem?

DH read a poem at our wedding which I have been meaning to turn it in to something to display on the wall but I can't decide or think of a nice way to do.

My only thought was to get a canvas, cut words from paper/mags & stick it on the canvas to make up the poem.
I'm not sure if it will look quirky or just messy.
I'd like to do it myself with a little help from the kids (it's a poem about Family) but don't want it to look messy and do justice to the poem & the meaning.

Any ideas?

Thank you

**lisnic** · 24-01-2012, 02:04pm

I'd type it up in a font you like colours etc print on some really nice card then use some sort of patterned paper to mount it onto then put into a box frame Iyswim!

**Jelly** · 24-01-2012, 02:20pm

You could get it printed on a wall sticker and put it on. Something like this:
http://www.quotethewalls.com/

**redhed** · 24-01-2012, 02:45pm

Well.

You can print it "nicely" (jiggering around a lot in Word) and frame it.

You can print it onto paper and paste it onto a canvas (there are a bunch of different versions of instructions out there on t'interweb for this, and a lot of them involve "antiqueing" the finish a bit so it comes out better than just something glued on a canvas iyswim.

You can get it professionally printed onto canvas, though that still means you have to create the image with all the formatting in etc.

I've done the first (I'd advise printing onto thin card, it sits better in the frame, somehow) and the third (the way to do this is in Powerpoint. Word doesn't do its' fonts as vector graphics so if you are printing anything bigger than A4 it doesn't scale properly and the edges of the fonts go a bit pixellated. Because Powerpoint is for projecting HUGE onto walls, it has to scale properly so you create the file in Powerpoint and then save as a JPeg. I just went with the cheapest deal on ebay for printing to canvas.)

**irislili** · 24-01-2012, 04:11pm

do have a colour printer? Then totally what lisnic said

you can download some lovely and easy to use software from www.daisytrail.co.uk that will give you lovely background papers and embelishments to print and you can copy and paste your poem onto it (IYSWIM?)