My First Canvas

OK....so this is my first BIG adventure with Canvas and Vinyl. I'm pretty excited with how it turned out, and see endless possibilities with the mixed media. I'm already starting to work on round 2! :-)So here it goes. I realised the other day that we have nothing on the walls in our bedroom, that needs to change!

I bought 3 5x7 canvases from Micheals (I think), I wanted to start small and see how it went.

Then I gathered my paint colors. The colors in our room are khaki, red, and blue...I added the metallic gold just to lighten it up a bit.

First I painted all the canvases in the khaki color as a base coat.

After that I did random swipes of the other three colors. I used a paper towel to help fade the colors so that they weren't too intense. I wanted a washed or faded look to the colors so that they all blended and worked together without being too overpowering.






The one on the far right was my first one....as you can see the red got to be a bit much, but once you see the end you'll see it won't matter....or you can always go back and add more of the neutral color.


Next I used my DS and the Songbird cart to make the words I wanted at the sizes that I wanted. I chose Faith, Hope, Love. Once I got them all set, I put them on one cut screen in DS and cut them on paper first to make sure I liked the look.
Now that it was ready to go....I loaded up my black vinyl (I get mine from craftvinyl.com) and let it cut. Once cut I added them to the finished canvases. They are currently up on the wall in my bedroom. They are small on the wall since this was a trial....so I still need to work on the wall but I think they came out really well!!

I think this kind of project has alot of potential and that's what is most exciting!! If you haven't tried vinyl yet, I think you should!! You may surprise yourself!!

Love and Vinyl!

Sarah