Jessica's Musings

I think I’m going to start craft blogging…

So it turns out that people love my crafts! In turn, I thought I would blog a few posts about how to do them. They’ll be short and sweet, since most of the crafts I do are pretty easy. First things first, I’ll start from the most recent craft!

Finished product!

I saw this on pinterest, and thought it looked really awesome to try out. Above is the completely finished product. This canvas is 16x20, and I bought it in a pack of 5 for $20 at Michael’s. GREAT buy!

So anyway, you’ll start with a blank canvas. It is up to you what color to paint it, or if you want to paint it at all! I buy acrylic paint from walmart, because it’s cheap and easy, and they have a lot of colors. I obviously chose black here.

After you have your canvas, you’re going to want to pick out some fun colored scrapbook paper! You can get scrapbook paper darn near anywhere these days. I have some from Hobby Lobby, Michael’s, Walmart… For this project, I was already at walmart and walked by the packs of paper they had and found this! It was perfect and it was only $5 for 50 sheets. Quite the deal!

scrapbook paper

Now that you have your canvas, paint, and paper, you are set! (You will also need some elmer’s glue and mod podge to set your paper to the canvas)

Cut out the paper in the shapes of flower petals and lay them out on the canvas to get an idea of what you’d like it to look like.

This was my first go at it, and it seemed to work out all right. Now, you’ll want to paint your canvas and reapply the pieces of paper so that you are ready to glue!

The pieces along the edges I just folded over and glued to the side. You only need a dot of elmer’s glue on each petal, since you will use mod podge over the top to secure everything in place. You should wait until the elmer’s glue is dry before using the mod podge as it may move the pieces around if they aren’t quite dry.

This is what it will look like when it is wet- don’t worry, it will dry clear! I also used mod podge on the edges, since there were petals that folded over and I wanted everything to be uniform.