Easy Canvas Prints Review and Giveaway!!!

If you haven't caught on by now, I'm kind of picture crazy! From the millions of monthly photos I take of Christian, to his milestone photos, and the crazy "Wall of Christian" gallery wall I created for our house, I LOVE to capture memories in pictures and display them for all to see! 

One of my favorite ways to display pictures, besides in a gallery wall, is on canvas! Canvas also would be a great addition to a gallery wall, but I generally display my favorite photos on canvas about our fireplace as part of our mantel display. I am always getting compliments on our canvas photo which I'm constantly updating as well. We started with an engagement photo, which changed to a wedding photo, and is now a proud family photo which we will be replacing as our family continues to grow. Christian is seriously changing by the day! 

I've never really been super picky about my canvas prints...all I cared about was finding a good picture and then a good deal through Groupon. But then my blog friend Lindsay, over at Pursuit of Pink, shared with me about Easy Canvas Prints. 

The quality of these canvas prints is the best I've had! 

And I've ordered from several different places, including Shutterfly. 

I'm so excited to get this print hanging up in Christian's room! Although...hopefully our house will be selling soon and we can just hang it in our new house in his new room! 

The canvas also included a hanger for the print! I personally use 3M hooks to hang my pictures so as not to put holes in our wall, but if you are using nails, this is ideal! Helps your pictures to hang straight! 

Ordering was easy, although, the process is set up for a landscape photo and I wanted to order in Portrait. It wasn't completely intuitive to figure out how to change the direction of the picture, but I sent a quick email for help and heard back very quickly so I was still able to get my print ordered fast! 

(**If you want to order a portrait instead of landscape print, just simply select the custom size instead of choosing a predetermined size)

Once your photo is uploaded, you're set to order! While the site told me it would take nearly 2 weeks for my print to arrive, this was far from my experience! I had my print within about only 1 week! So Easy Canvas Prints is extra speedy! 

So if you are considering creating your own gallery wall, or just looking to order some prints for your home, I highly recommend you give canvas prints a try and check out Easy Canvas Prints!

Canvas does seem to run a little higher price wise, but at Easy Canvas Prints, there seems to always be a deal!

Right now, single prints are 25% off with Free Standard Shipping and 

wall displays are up to 60% off. 

Even better, for my lucky readers, Easy Canvas Prints is offering you, yes YOU! 50% off when you place your order {here}. That's a deal you don't want to miss! 

But it gets EVEN better...Easy Canvas Prints is also giving away a FREE 8X10 Canvas Print to one lucky reader in the US (excluding Alaska and Hawaii - sorry friends)!

Enter with the rafflecopter below! 

Good Luck! 

Also, be sure to follow Easy Canvas Prints on Facebook and Twitter for more deals and updates! 

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*I was provided an 8X10 canvas print for the purpose of this review. All opinions are 100% my own.*

Creating a Photo Gallery Wall

Whether you have a new baby, a growing family, or just a ton of great pictures from a fun trip, a gallery wall can be a great way to put all of these beautiful pictures on display! 

While I was still pregnant, I knew that we were going to have lots of cute pictures to come with our little baby and we would want to put them on display for all to see! I decided a gallery wall would be a great way to do this. 

I searched pinterest and found tons of examples!

With a baby not even 2 months old at the time, we already had an abundance of photos and narrowing down the ones I would like to display was a task in itself! I eventually decided on 17 photos - 11 4X6 photos, 3 5X7 photos, and 3 8X10 photos. 

 For my gallery wall I knew that I would want my frames to look somewhat similar but still be unique from each other. I did some searching for gallery wall photo frame sets, but wasn't happy with what I found. None of them had the look I was wanting and rarely were big enough. They also were much more expensive than what I was wanting to spend. 

So I put my hubby to work to find us some frames! And he found the perfect ones at Ikea! Below are the styles we decided on. Not drastically different, but all white and different enough. The wall that we chose for our gallery wall is a bit of an 'off-white' so white frames aren't the best choice, but the best long term choice for us for hopefully matching in a single family home someday as we currently own a townhouse. 

Now that I had my frames, I set out my pictures in the arrangement I wanted them to be on the wall. I was working with a large, blank wall, so I wasn't concerned about space or running out of room. I knew I could just space the frames closer together or farther apart to make them fit. 

Then I put the pictures in the frames and created paper sheets that matched the size of each frame. For the 8X10 and 5X7 frames I had to tape a few pieces of paper together to get the exact size. 

I then taped the 'paper frames' to the wall in the same arrangement. Because I chose to use 3M stickies to hang the pictures instead of nails, I kept the tape. If I would have used nails, I would have replaced the tape with a nail after the papers were on the wall in the desired spot. Then the frames could have been hung and the paper just pulled down. 

Because I kept the tape and was using 3M picture hanging strips, I took down each 'paper frame' 1 at a time. After I would take down 1 'paper frame' I would immediately replace it with the actual picture frame. 

When I was all done it looked like this. The white frames would really 'pop' if the wall were another color but for the sake of selling our house in the not too distant future, we decided not to paint an accent wall here. 

I love love love getting to see these cute pictures every day when I walk past them! I wish that there was a good location for them to have been put downstairs so our guests could see them too, but upstairs had the best wall space. 

In just a month I'll already be replacing some of the pictures when Christian gets his 3 month pictures taken.