Paint Chip Art

Kelly is working on finishing her basement and has finished some projects this month to get closer to her goal!  She gathered a bunch of pain chips in the coral color family and cut them into triangles.  Then she arranged them in an ombre layout and glued them to a canvas.

Watercolor Painting

This month Sharla tried out a popular pin she found on Pinterest: painting a canvas with watercolors, glue and salt.  Posted is her final product.  Here is one of the posts describing out to do this technique - fun for kids or adults!

Scrap Flower Canvas

This month Kelly made this flower canvas with scrapbook paper she had on hand.  She painted a canvas  grey.  Then cut 3 different size petals from various scrapbook papers she had.  The she started in the middle and with the small ones and worked her way out.  She glued them down with a glue stick.  She found the idea for the project here.

Owl Canvases

For my project this month I made a couple of digital owl prints (to be put on 16x20 canvases) for my sister Kate's baby girl's nursery.  I used Adobe Photoshop Elements as usual and a combination of elements from different designers.

Workout Inspiration

 I will take any extra push I can get while working out.  I saw this saying floating around Pinterest and it made me chuckle. I took a small canvas I had, cut out the lettering and tears from vinyl with my Silhouette and attached it with Mod Podge.  It now hangs by our treadmill.

 There are several races that my husband and I have done over the years and at one point we just started throwing our racing bibs into a file folder in the file cabinet.  We like to write the race, date, and our time on the back of the bib.  I thought there has got to be something better to do with those.  I did a google search and it brought me to Etsy, where a lot of people seem to have the same idea.  I wanted us to still be able to flip through our bibs so I opted to put them on big rings, with the most current bib facing front.  The quote is one I saw on a t-shirt at a race.  I cut out everything in vinyl on my Silhouette and used Mod Podge to seal it to the black canvas.  One thing I discovered is that apparently vinyl does not  like to stick to plain canvas.  I didn't have this issue before when I did canvases, but than again I painted all of those before I stuck vinyl to them.  I screwed cup hooks into the bottom of the canvas to hang the rings.  I was pretty happy with how it turned out.  So was the hubby - thank goodness as it was part of his birthday present!

Silhouette Projects

This month I spent some quality time with my Silhouette . . .

 I added vinyl to the kid's stuffed animal tubs.

 I saw a version of this sign on Pinterest and enjoyed it so much I decided I needed to make one for the kid's bathroom.  I painted the canvas blue, used black and white vinyl in various fonts and then did a coat of Mod Podge over the whole thing.

I made several shirts with the heat transfer.  Zoe got a black glitter horse (love this glitter heat transfer!) and a rhinestone flower shirt with a big "4" on the back and her name (figure it would make a fun birthday shirt next month!).  The golf shirt - this is the front.  I made two: one for my dad and one for my father in law.  They are a golf team for the church league and they were in first place after the first 3 weeks, which is awesome for them, so I made shirts for them to celebrate.  The back says, "First Place (so far)."

Kitchen Decoration

I was feeling extra ambitious this month:) I've had these canvases on my "want to do" list for a while. I took acrylic paint and gave the canvases two coats a piece - still had a bit of white showing through, but liked the look. Then I used the Silhouette to cut out the sayings and coffee cup in black vinyl and attached it to one canvas. Then I used adhesive backed card stock to cut out the olive and heart. Once I attached everything to the canvas I gave it a good coat of Mod Podge to give it a bit of gloss.We are a house that likes our coffee and olive - though not together!

Painted Canvas

This month Kelly painted a canvas and wrote out her favorite Billy Graham saying in letter stickers.  Next she spray painted over everything, let it dry and removed the stickers.