Painted Canvas

At coffee group we have been making a canvas with a saying on it.

It could be anything you like. Last week we painted our canvases, some ladies stuck pages from a book on theirs or scrap booking papers.

I painted mine purple of couse because it is my favourite colour.

This week we finished it off. I printed out the words I was going to use and took them in with me this morning. I then traced it onto some contact, I cut it out with a craft knife.

 

And then the fun part, sticking the contact on to the canvas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I actually dont mind it this colour.

Now to put the black paint on and hope it doesn't go underneath the contact.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well it did a little bit but it still looks good.

Crayon Art

My daughter has wanted to try out the crayon art where you melt crayons on a canvas, we decided to do it on the weekend and I thought I'd post a tutorial of how to do it.

First of all you will need:
A canvas
A packet or 2 of crayola crayons (I was told the cheap ones don't melt properly)
A hot glue gun and glue
A hair dryer
Some newspaper or old catalogues

Cover your work area with newspaper.
turn on the hot glue gun. while waiting set up your crayons how you want them on your canvas.

 

We put a tissue box above our canvas to get the crayons straight.

Start gluing, we put the glue onto the canvas but it would probably work just as well the other way around.



Once they were all stuck down we made a spot on the floor next to the power point, covered the floor and wall with paper just incase it got a bit messy.

 

We found that if the board was straight up and down the crayon dripped past the canvas, so if you put it on a bit of an angle you should be ok.

Now if you have a slow setting on the hairdyer its probably best to use that. We just held the hair dryer pointing down for this one but depending on how you hold it you will get different results.

So start melting those crayons.

 

 

The Finished product:

 

A different view:

 

And another we made later:

 

 

All up they only took around 10-15 minutes each to make. We had a lot of fun together making them.

 



Introduction

Welcome to my craft Blog.

I am a stay at home mum of 4 children,  with 2 almost 3 at school and a 3 year old still at home. I like to do some craft stuff when I can find the time. I have a facebook page where I sell some of these creations. I also go to my local school markets to sell my goods.

I am setting up this page to share some of the things I do.

I hope you enjoy seeing my stuff.