Christmas Lyric Canvas

Carrying on with Christmas decorations from my Christmas Craft list. Today we venture to the two canvases with Christmas hymn lyrics.  Now, I made these in two different ways and got pretty much the same results.

The Simple Supplies:

Lyrics printed out -- I got these prints from Landee See, Landee Do

Knife & Cutting Board

Pencil

Canvas (or two)

Paint colors of choice -- I used a shimmer white as a base coat with Christmas Green and Red for the 'filler' space

The Simplified Steps:

Step One - Paint the shimmer base coat on both canvases

Step Two- Cut your printed lyrics down to the size of the canvas, so it fits in the back of your canvas

Step Three - Hold your canvas (with the paper tucked in the back of it) up to a window or light so you can see through and have the pattern in front of you. Trace the pattern onto the front side of your canvas

Step Four - Paint in the background with your color of choice, covering the pencil markings as you go.

Step Five - After your canvas has dried, hang it up!

Sounds, simple right? How could I have screwed this up and made this take an ENTIRE day, for the first canvas I painted? 

Well, you see, instead of having the genius idea to simply hold the canvas up to light and trace the pattern onto the canvas....I used a knife and cut out all of the letters. This along took a good amount of time. Then with the background pieces, I taped them together on canvas like puzzle.  Next, I finally outlined where every letter would be. These steps again, taking a very long time. Finally I was able to paint in the background.

Boy, am I thankful I was able to come up with the tracing idea for the second canvas, otherwise these two projects probably wouldn't have been worth the time and effort.

Holly Letter

One of the holiday projects on my list to tackle this year is an 'S' made out of holly. It was a fairly simple project and I completed it in one night while catching up on some TV shows we enjoy.

  The Supplies:

Flat letter -- I got my S from Hobby Lobby

Bundles of fake holly -- I used 7 bundles from Hobby Lobby

Red paint to match holly and paint brush

Glue gun and sticks

Scissors 

Step One - Paint your letter

Step Two - As your letter is drying, trim up all of your holly.  I tried to keep them in the bunches that they were already connected in and also wanted to keep a few individual or pairs of holly together to use as filler at the end.

Step Three - Hot glue your bundles of holly onto the letter, covering the entire piece as best as possible. At the end I still had some holly leftover, so I went back over it and filled in any gaps with the individual pieces. 

Step Four - Touch up the holly with red paint as needed. Some of the red coloring had come off of the holly I was working with, so I hit it up with some paint!

Step Five - Enjoy your work! Hang on a door by itself or with a wreath. Hang it on a wall or lean it up against any other holiday decor you already have!  We are enjoying it, hanging with a wreath on the inside of our front door, so we get to see it often.

 

More Organized Home?

So, yeah. I may have dropped off the 4 Weeks to a More Organized Home series by Money Saving Mom. Blame it on some late work nights, being sick this week, and some general old laziness. I hope to hop back on where I left off this week.

In the meantime, how about a little Christmas cheer and some Christmas crafts that will be coming your way soon?

Christmas Craft List

I took the whole week of Thanksgiving off this year. We've decided to host Thanksgiving this year so I'll probably be spending the days leading up to Turkey Day by cleaning and prepping some food. My plan is to have at least one day to spend time working on some of the many projects I dream about (thanks to Pinterest). And, depending on how much cleaning I keep up with over the next couple weeks with the 4 Weeks to a More Organized Home series, maybe I'll be able to get even more time in!

So, in true Dani fashion, I'm making a list! I'll make it a big list so I have options to choose from when the days roll around. Hopefully by already having a list and maybe even some shopping done before hand, it will make it much easier to get started! I'll start working on some Christmas projects now, so we actually have decorations when the holiday gets here.

The list/inspiration:

I hope to take two of these printables and turn them into canvases to hang on either side of the window behind our couch.

A holly letter 'S' for the front door

Something similar to this sign that could possibly hang outside, or in the entry. Not quite sure yet what type of material I would use. I think wood would be nice for outside.

I've been dreaming of making a wreath from ornament balls for about a year now. This may be a project that gets put off in hopes that I can score some great deals on ornaments after Christmas.

It would be nice to have a Noel sign somewhere, I'm just not quite sure in what form or where it would go.

So, there you have it! My dream list Christmas crafts to work on during my days off! Hope to keep you updated on how anything that I get done turns out!