simple linear canvas

This is a simple project that will take 5 working minutes but a lot longer waiting time.

You start by painting a base color, which should be your lightest color.
After your base color dries, place painters tape on top of where you want your base color to come through.

Next, paint your next lightest color on top. Continue with these steps until you have used all of your colors!

Sunflower wreath

My three favorite things in the world are glitter, sock monkeys, and sunflowers. One day when I was wandering the isles of target I found these awesome foam sunflower cut outs and they made it home with me. My door was looking very bare so I decided to make a sunflower wreath from them.
I thought the orange and yellow centers made them look too sun like so I cut circles from a sparkly polka dot paper and glued them to the centers. Then, I just glued them in a circle and added some card board for support. Voila!

Faux taxidermy

This project started as a trip down the Michael's Christmas decor isle. They always have great laser cut ornaments there and this year they had a cool faux deer head. I fell in love with it. It was a perfect addition to our kitschy cabin feeling home. I had tons of ideas on how I wanted to decorate the deer, but I decided to go with a cool paper. Which of course led to more indecision. Once, I finally figured out which paper to use it was only a few minutes before I was done.

I simply traced the deer head on the paper and then cut it out. Then, I mod podged it on. And done!

supplies

Step 1

paper ready to be glued down!

Die-Cut canvas

So this is probably the easiest project I have made in awhile...
The die-cut canvas.

When I was going through my craft supplies I found a bunch of great glittered die-cuts that I had gathered along the way and I just knew they needed to go on my walls.
I simply started them by painting a canvas a coordinating color. Then, I placed them on the canvas and mod podged them down. Because I am in to things not being symmetric I placed them in the corners of my canvas and had to trim things off of the canvas. I went ahead and did multiple coats of mod podge to make sure they stayed on the canvas. And voila a new art piece to go on the walls!

A splotchy canvas

This is another super easy wall decor project. I like it because you can include the color scheme of your room in one place and tie everything together with out a lot of work.

Steps:

1: pick your colors

2: put big spots of color on the canvas

3: wrap canvas in tin foil

4: smush the tin foil around on the canvas

5: carefully remove tin foil

The sponge canvas

This canvas actually came about on accident. I was working on another project (to be posted later) and involved, shockingly enough, foam brushes and many colors of paint. I have the tendency to over fill my brushes and of course on this day I did that very thing and before I cleaned the brush I stamped the extra out on paper. And it looked really cool.
So I pulled a canvas out and went to town on it. It is really simple just stamp a foam brush straight down all over the canvas and in different colors. Don't fill too much of the canvas at a time.

For the love of stickers

I am obsessed with stickers. They make me so happy. But that typically means I have a lot of stickers and no projects for them. This time I had an idea; make them into art pieces. I am always looking for new cheap ways to adorn my walls. So, this is another cheap canvas piece. (And remember you can always make canvases out of boxes, just paint the box a base color and add supports)

To start this project do what you did for the die cut project and paint a coordinating color for the back ground. Then, when that is dry place your stickers. I glued them down with tacky glue. I did not mod podge the top because I used glittery stickers and I didn't want to dull the shimmer.

Five (working) minute walls

so in upcoming posts I will give you some examples of easy wall art projects. My first ones will come from these things

2nd: What's she going to do with that???

 So we have a lot of acorns...

 a lot...

so I will craft with them...

but what will I make??? Stay tuned to find out