Christmas Canvas Art

posted by Monday, November 25, 2013 6 comments

I love the holiday season, and it seems most people use Thanksgiving as a time to put up the tree and start decoration. I know that's what we do at my mom's! As Jason and I are almost always out of town on Thanksgiving, I have taken to setting up the tree early so that home is ready for the holidays and happy when we get back to Pennsylvania. This year, I got some canvases and paint to spruce up our mantle with an easy DIY.


What You'll Need
Stretched Canvases (mine at 8.5" x 11")
Gold Paint Pen OR
Gold Paint and a thin Paintbrush
Pencil


For the dotted canvas, use your paint pen or brush with paint to randomly apply dots, thicker at the bottom and more sparse at the top. With a pen, you can press straight down carefully to get even dots. With a brush, do a small swirl.


For the 'Be Merry and Bright' Canvas, first lightly outline the words on the canvas. This gives you a little wiggle room for error. Light it key so you can erase. Using the pen or paint brush, carefully trace over the lines, keeping the letters even.


Allow to dry then display!

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6 comments:

  1. Why Girls Are WeirdNovember 25, 2013 at 3:04 PM

    Easy and very cute!

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  2. HayleyNovember 25, 2013 at 4:47 PM

    Very lovely. I'm not too sure when Thanksgiving actually is but I hope you have a lovely one :)
    Hayley
    Water Painted Dreams xxx

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  3. Sara, Swing The Day AwayNovember 25, 2013 at 5:05 PM

    This so simple and easy, and I love that you can pretty much do anything with it to decorate. Plus, I can make it as simple as I want it to be since I'm not very good at drawing...haha.

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  4. KristianNovember 25, 2013 at 8:07 PM

    Fun and lovely. I like the idea of having Christmas ready for when you come back from your trip. We usually go cut down our tree the weekend the week following Thanksgiving, but help decorate the (fake) tree at my parents in the weekend following Turkey Day.

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  5. jessica // union shoreNovember 25, 2013 at 9:17 PM

    I love these! I've been wanting to do something similar with a deer or holiday quote!

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  6. UnknownNovember 25, 2013 at 10:54 PM

    Great ideas!! Found your blog from BlogPaws check mine if you have a chance
    Http://ownedbyahusky.blogspot.ca

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