christmas canvas
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Designer: Becky Novacek
It's no secret that i adore working with canvas! It's a great way to experiment with your creativity, as well as use up scraps and bits oand pieces that you love. The idea of being able to create personal gifts is appealing too. Custom colors and text that tell the recipient that you were thinking especially of them. Not only giving thought to their personal taste, but also invested time in creating it.
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Instructions
(Print version)
 1. Dilute paint with a little bit of water. Paint front and sides of canvas with thinned green paint. Set aside to dry.
2. Cut skinny strips of Heidi Grace Pattern Papers starting with a 6” long strip and cutting about 12 strips, down to a one incher. Use Scallop Rotary Blade to trim a random strip along the long side. Set skinny strips aside.
3. Trim a black strip of cardstock ¼”x9” for tree trunk.
4. Handcut a 3 inch heart from quilt scrap and hand-stitch around.
5. Thread colored floss through 6 Lil Davis Buttons and adhere threaded Buttons to Lil Davis Felt Buttons.
6. Use Fiskars Twinkle Twinkle Star Squeeze Punch on Painted Vintage Ledger Paper.
7. Tear a piece of randomly painted ledger paper to the width of the page torn from by 4 inches. 8. Trim a piece of Heidi Grace Pattern Paper to 3 ½ “ x 1” and use Scallop Rotary Blade on one long side.
9. Find a fitting Christmas sentiment in vintage Christmas book and cut into strips.
10. Use Fiskars Threading Water Border Punch on black cardstock strip about ½ wide to create a sort of tracing stencil for border on canvas.
11. When paint is completely dry on canvas, use Scallop Border Strip as a guide to trace scallops with black marker all the way around the canvas. This works really well, because you can continue to line it up using the edge and previous scallop as a guide.
12. Allow the scallop lines to dry completely and then used thinned pink paint to paint edges. Don’t be too fussy with staying in the lines. With the thinned paint, it creates a sort of watercolor look that looks best if it’s not perfect.
13. Allow the paint to dry completely and then begin assembling, using pieces that were prepared in previous steps.
14. Adhere painted vintage paper to the top of the canvas, tucking Heidi Grace Pattern Paper piece from step 8 slightly under left side.
15. Assemble tree, starting with the black trunk about 5 inches from left bottom side right above bottom scallop. Start with longest strip and work to the top. It’s a good idea to set it up and make sure it looks good before gluing in place.
16. Adhere Lil Davis Felt Buttons/Buttons along the bottom and up the trunk.
17. Adhere punched star to the top of the tree and use Lil Davis Glitter Glaze on star.
18. Handwrite Dickens quote at the top and down the left side of the canvas, adhering the quilt heart in the middle of quote.
19. Adhere Christmas book strip below top line of quote.
20. Outline star with black marker when Glitter Glaze is completely set. Supplies: Fiskars Products: 01-001045 Threading Water Border Punch
Fiskars Products: 12-74187097 XL Twinkle Twinkle Squeeze Punch
Fiskars Products: 12-99027097 12 Desktop Rotary Trimmer
Fiskars Products: 12-99147097 Scallop Rotary Blade
Heidi Grace Designs: Christmas Pattern Papers, Lil Davis Felt Buttons, Glitter Glaze, Buttons.
Blue, Pink, and Green Acrylic Paint, Painted Vintage Ledger Paper, Vintage Christmas Book, Vintage Quilt Scrap, Black Cardstock, Red and Pink Floss
11x14 canvas
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